Reading Roundup Wrapup: April 2024

Pick of the month: To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. This was a Hugo (well, Lodestar (not a Hugo)) finalist, and so far, it definitely feels like the one to beat in its category. YA fantasy about a dragonriding school, but with some genuinely original twists on the genre and solid worldbuilding.

All books read:

1. Apocalypse Still: Stories by Leah Nicole Whitcomb
2. John Dough and the Cherub: A Whimsical Wonder-Story in which is Described the Marvelous Creation of John Dough, the Gingerbread Man; his meeting with the Incubator Baby called Chick the Cherub: their Adventures in the Isle of Phreex, the Land of Mifkets, Pirate Island and Hiland and Loland by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill
3. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott
4. The Witches of World War II by Paul Cornell and Valeria Burzo
5. The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
6. Abeni’s Song by P. Djèlí Clark
7. To Shape a Dragon’s Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit by Moniquill Blackgoose
8. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith 

I feel like I did a lot of good reading this month but I guess it's not reflected in my numbers. A lot of long books, I suppose. All but the first two were Hugo reads!

All books acquired:

1. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott
2. The Witches of World War II by Paul Cornell and Valeria Burzo
3. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 
4. Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
5. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
6. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
7. Web of Angels by John M. Ford

#1-6 are all Hugo finalists, of course; I have a few more yet to arrive.

Currently reading:

• Showcase Presents Blackhawk, Volume One by Dick Dillin, Charles Cuidera, et al.
  
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gamma: Original Sin by David R. George III
• Collected Poems by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later Omnibus, Volume 2 by Tom & Mary Bierbaum, Tom McCraw, Stuart Immonen, Chris Sprouse, et al. 

Up next in my rotations:

1. The Pelican History of England: 3. English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) by Doris Mary Stenton 
2. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 
3. The Dispossessed by Szilárd Borbély
4. Star Trek: Prey, Book 3: The Hall of Heroes by John Jackson Miller

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 660 (down 1)