Shelly Bryant

Here’s what I was reading and viewing in May and June

Hits

•  A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M Miller)
• The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
• Mortdecai (movie)
• Cake (movie)
• Hugo (movie)
• Defending Jacob (William Landay)
• Divergent (Veronica Roth)
• Barry Lyndon (William Makepeace Thackeray)
• Typewriter in the Sky (L Ron Hubbard)
• Fortune’s Lover (Rachel Pollack)
• In the Blood (Jackie French)
• Land of Mercy (Fan Wen; soon to be published MS)
• Minions (movie)

Misses

• Twenties are Gone (Felicia Atkinson)

Neither Hit nor Miss

• Fairy Tales for Writers (Lawrence Schimel)

I think the read of the month for me was A Canticle for Leibowitz and The English Patient in May and Fortune’s Lover in June.

So how has recent reading and viewing been for you?

Here’s what I was reading and viewing in March

Hits

• High Rise (J G Ballard)
• Calculating God (Robert J Sawyer)
• Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
• Orientalism (Edward Said)

Back issue of 《科幻世界》

Misses

• none

Neither Hit nor Miss

• The Player of Games (Iain M Banks)
• Macbeth: A Novel (A J Hartley and David Hewson)

I think the read of the month for me was either Interview with the Vampire or Orientalism.

So how was March reading and viewing for you?

Here’s what I was reading and viewing in February

Hits

• Flaubert’s Drum (Sugu Pillay)
• Into the Beautiful North (Luis Alberto Urrea)
• Origen (Theodore Vrettos)
• The Killables (Gemma Malley)
• Calico Joe (John Grisham)

Back issue of Outposts of Beyond and the most recent issue of Lontar

Misses

• none

Neither Hit Nor Miss

• Anathem (Neal Stephenson)

I think the read of the month for me was either Into the Beautiful North or Calico Joe.

So how was February reading and viewing for you?