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What I read: May 2022


Apparently I've given up on trying to read in these pictures, let's see if I can do better next month. 

LHC #167: "Missing Soluch" by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, translated by Kamran Rastegar. I ought to acknowledge the translators more often here; they're integral to the experience. Anyway, I read book 1 of this (it's divided into 4 books, about 100 pages each) and found it unrelentingly depressing. Then partway through book 2, I started to wonder if I was misunderstanding completely and it was actually supposed to be funny? 

LHC #168: "Legends of the Fire Spirits" by Robert Lebling. Hard copy! I read most of this on vacation. 

LHC #169: "Moon of the Crusted Snow" by Waubgeshig Rice. eBook. Pretty fun. 

LHC #170: "Automatic Reload" by Ferrett Steinmetz. eBook. I quite enjoyed it. Not something I could write, I think, which makes me sort of jealous. The characters and their issues were so embedded in the story! 

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