#MonthlyWrapUp I finished four things in January: A fantasy novella, a back issue of FIYAH Magazine, a short story collection (tagged, because the title isn't on the cover), and a big nonfiction history. All picks, all recommended. It's a bit of a slow start to the year, but also mostly fairly heavy reading.
I changed my mind about which #ReadHarder2021 task I'm going to use this book for: I'm now officially slotting it in as a book with a cover I don't like. Why isn't the title on the cover?? Maybe it works in print somehow, but for literal years I would occasionally flip past this book on my kindle, think “what the heck is that book?“, and open it up to remind myself.
It won't be hard to find another SFF anthology that I want to read!
pick#ReadHarder2021: An SFF anthology edited by a person of color
I enjoyed this, although I'm sure I missed a lot because I don't know much about Malaysian culture. The standout stories for me were “Codes“ by Anna Tan, “The Twins“ by Adiwijaya Iskandar, and “The White Mask“ by Zedeck Siew. I don't think there was a single story that I thought wasn't good, although there were a few with depressing endings that I wasn't really into.
January #BookSpin list! Since January brings the new #ReadHarder challenge, I gave a little bump to anything already on my list that would fit one of the categories, and decided to skip anything that seems like it could be hard to read and won't help with #ReadHarder2021 😅
Happy New Year, @TheAromaofBooks and all of the #BookSpin and general Litsy community!
Fun Photo Friday, you say? I make it a point to read more local books. Most of mine come from local publishing house Fixi. Here's my collection, and half of that is still in its shrink warp. Little Basket, Heat, Flesh and Trash are available in some bookstores in London.
CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA | 
