Shelly Bryant

December was a good month for catching up on a lot of reading I’ve left dangling for a while.  I made a little progress on my Fill in the Gaps list, and read a number of other books for both work and leisure.  It was especially good to savour a number of poetry

collections over the past month, including my own newly releasedCyborg Chimera, which finally arrived here in Singapore.

Here’s what I’ve been reading and watching in December:

Hit List

1. •    The Evidence of the Senses (Colin Tan)
2. •    Curse of the Golden Flower (movie)
3. •    A Cold Coming (Tony Harrison)
4. •    Memoirs of a Geisha (movie)
5. •    2004 Dwarf Stars (Deborah P. Kolodji, ed.)
6. •    Blackbird (David Harrower)
7. •    George & the Dragon (movie)
8. •    Silas Marner (George Eliot)
9. •    The Shack (William Paul Young)

my review is the second one at the linked site

1. •    several essays & short stories by Washington Irving
2. •    Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman)

also a short blog entry at the Fill in the Gaps site

1. •    The Haiku Handbook (William J. Higginson, with Penny Harter)
2. •    Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
3. •   City of Life and Death (movie)
4. •    Avatar (movie)
5. •    Private Worlds:  A Revised Atlas (Scott E. Green)

watch Sloth Jockey for a review, coming soon

1. •    Peninsular (Darren V. L. Shiau)
2. •    The Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (movie)
3. •    Ancient Skies (oino sakai)
4. •    A Study in Emerald (Neil Gaiman)

Catching up on a couple of magazines:

Books & Culture, Asimov’s Science Fiction (back issues)

Star*Line, ExpatLit, The Taylor Trust (most recent issue)

Miss List

No misses in December!

Neither Hit nor Miss

1. • The Gospel According to Judas (Jeffrey Archer)

watch Sloth Jockey for a review, coming soon

So, what have you been reading and watching this past month?