I don't know what it was about that month, but I barely read anything.  And its not like I was stuck on some door-stopper of a book.  So starting with the free-range short fiction is Kai Ashante Wilson's the Devil in America a depressing look at white-on-black violence.  And I mean wiping out entire towns level of violence.  Then Something Going ( Read more... )

More late than usual on this one.  So let us start with the free-range short fiction for August.  We've got "Cayos in the Stream" by Harry Turtledove.  A somewhat alternate history story with Hemingway hunting for Nazi U-boats in the Caribbean.  Then Meghan McCarron's "Swift, Brute Retaliation" where just being dead doesn't stop a dead kid from ( Read more... )

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Just getting this under the wire.  Starting off June with Mur Lafferty's the Shambling Guide to New York City.  Which is about writing tour books for the supernatural community.  Some nice twists on the usual modern paranormal tropes...

From one of my various Kickstarter rewards I got Harry Connelly's  King Khan.  Which is a pulp adventure story ( Read more... )