February Readings and Reviews

[tithenai]

A stupendous amount of last-minute reading of novellas and novelettes for award nomination happened this month, but I'm not counting them because mostly the point of listing the short fiction is to help me around award season again next year, so I want to only list what's eligible and what I've enjoyed.

Books:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation by George Copway
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Touch by Claire North
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
Selections from E Pauline Johnson's The Moccasin Maker: "A Red Girl's Reasoning" and "As it Was in the Beginning"

Notable Short Fiction:

"Tiger Baby" by JY Yang (short story) (review)
"Hoywverch" by Heather Rose Jones (short story) (audio only)
"The Girl Who Ate Butterflies" by Mary Rickert (short story)
"Translatio Corporis" by Kat Howard (short story)
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" by Brooke Bolander (novelette) (review)