My favorite read of April 2025: Seeing Red by Cara Malone.

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#Books and #stories for #AprilReads.

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Eleven novels:
●●●◐○ Grand Central Arena - Ryk E Spoor {Arena 1}
●●●○○ A Choice of Gods - Clifford D. Simak
●●●○○ The Gourmets of Grantville - Bethanne Kim
●●●●○ Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer {Terra Ignota 1}
●●●◐○ Spheres of Influence - Ryk E. Spoor {Arena 2}
●●○○○ The Silent City - H.G. Suren {Alignment 1}
●●●○○ Murder in Snydersville - Valleri Saint Matthew
●●●○○ Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer {Terra Ignota 2 }
●●●○○ The Artifact - David Collins {Artifact 1}
●●●○○ The Crucible - M L Maki {Fighting Tomcats 11}
●●●◐○ The Second Artifact - David Collins {Artifact 2} (nov)

Zero novellas.

Six novelettes:
●●●◐○ Rats in the Moon - Pauline Ashwell {Lizzie Lee 3}
●●●○○ Consuming Flame - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 4}
●●●○○ Horror Insured - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 5}
●●●○○ Fatal Statistics - Pauline Ashwell {Lizzie Lee 4}
○○○○○ Beyond Death's Gateway - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 6}
○○○○○ The Lost Kafoozalum - Pauline Ashwell {Lizzie Lee 2}

Twenty-nine stories:
●●●○○ Snowball - Poul Anderson
●●○○○ Trials - Nicolas Wilson
●●○○○ One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts - Shirley Jackson
●●●◐○ Virgin Ground - Rosel George Brown
●●●○○ Mousetrap - Andre Norton
●●◐○○ McIlvaine’s Star - August Derleth
●●○○○ That Only a Mother - Judith Merril
●●●◐○ Discontinuity - Raymond F. Jones
●●●○○ Homo Inferior - Mari Wolf
●●●○○ Space Episode - Leslie Perri
●●●◐○ The Worlds of Joe Shannon - Frank M. Robinson
●●○○○ Nightmare Call - Carol Emshwiller
●●◐○○ No Shield from the Dead - Gordon R. Dickson
●●○○○ The Thought-Monster - Amelia Reynolds Long
●●○○○ Everything's Different Up There - Genevieve Haugen
●●●○○ Horrer Howse - Margaret St. Clair
●●◐○○ The Beautiful People - Charles Beaumont
●●●○○ Luvver - Mack Reynolds
●●◐○○ Prominent Author - Philip K. Dick
●○○○○ For Sale, Reasonable - Elisabeth Mann Borgese
●●●○○ Radio Ghost - Otis Adelbert Kline
●●○○○ Mile-Long Spaceship - Kate Wilhelm
●◐○○○ Welcome, Martians - S.A. Lombino
●●◐○○ Little Boy - Jerome Bixby
●○○○○ Life - Daniel Arenson
●●○○○ Brainchild - Henry Slesar
●●●○○ MacHinery - Eric Frank Russell
●●●◐○ Ararat - Zenna Henderson
●●○○○ Heel - Philip José Farmer

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There’s something sacred about a rainy day with nowhere to be.
A warm drink in hand. A cozy blanket. And a stack of books that feel like home.

Today’s blog post is a soft ode to the stories I turn to when the sky gets heavy and all I want to do is sink into something beautiful. Fiction, nonfiction, and a few forever favorites that hit just right when the rain starts to fall.

Tap the link in bio to read the full post + see what made it into my rainy day reading stack.
Then tell me—what’s your go-to rainy day read?

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A little late, but here are my April reads:

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NIGHT WORK, Thomas Glavinic
THE HOLLOW LANDS, Michael Moorcock
THE END OF ALL SONGS, Michael Moorcock
NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY 1, Michael Moorcock, ed.
THE INIMITABLE JEEVES, P. G. Wodehouse

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A few days late, but here are my #AprilReads

-A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan
-Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
-Seasons of Albadone by Élan Marché, Christopher Warman
-Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

One more book read than in March and I loved everything I read. I’ll take it!

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#AprilReads continued

Romance:

Fantasy Romance - time travel, magic, demons, etc.
Back in a Spell & From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper.
A Highlander for Hannah by Mary Warren

Contemporary Romance
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg

Favourites of the month: Unity, Murderbot (of course), Cassandra in Reverse, and Romantic Comedy. Tea Dragon Society was very cozy.

Just As You Are was quite a good sapphic Pride and Prejudice retelling.

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