Shelly Bryant

Hit or Miss, January ’12

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

January has been a pretty good month of reading and film for me — not a long list, but mostly good stuff.  I especially enjoyed reading Sheng Keyi’s short story “Fishbone,” which I translated for a magazine in Beijing.  It’s a good story.

Anyway, here’s what I’ve been reading and viewing over the past month…

Hit List

1. •Fishbone (Sheng Keyi)
2. •up against the window (Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross, ed.)
3. •The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook (Suzette Haden Elgin)
4. •Courageous (movie)
5. •Cat Country (Lao She)
6. •Psychoentropy (Julie Shiel)
7. •Disturbed (Julie Shiel)
8. •Celestial Bodies (Keith Sikora)
9. •The Tin Men and other poems (Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel)

Magazines:

Beyond Centauri (the most recent, and 1 back issue); Star*Line; Aoife’s Kiss

Miss List

1. •No misses this month!

Neither Hit nor Miss

1. •Idylls of the King (Tennyson)

– I know, I feel terrible!  It was more about my mood than the book, obviously.

1. •It’s Complicated (movie)
2. •War Horse (movie)

Another no-miss list.  I love that!

So….

what have you been reading and watching for the past month ?