February 2021 Reading List

I have finally done it.

After about 25 years of trying and failing, I have finally completed reading all 364,000+ words of The Brothers Karamazov. It was magnificent, and difficult, and dense and occasionally fragmented, and absolutely worth the time and effort I put into the seven weeks it took to read the book from the beginning to the end.

With Dostoevsky out of the way for the moment, I turned my attention to the embarrassingly large stack of books in translation I have collected over the past half-dozen years, but not read. Items 7 through 12 on the book list below are the results of that first pass. These shorter, non-Dostoevsky books just seem to fly by.

Because I have been reading so many books, my short fiction reading has sort of fallen by the wayside. Still, a dozen or so in a month is pretty good.

Books

4. Wilkerson, Isabel, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2021.02.03)
5. Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Pevear, Richard and Volokhonsky, Larissa, translators), The Brothers Karamazov (2021.02.12)
6. Giorno, John, Great Demon Kings (2021.02.15)
7. Berti, Eduardo (Coombe, Charlotte, translator), The Imagined Land (2021.02.16)
8. Tenev, Georgi (Rodel, Angela, translator), Party Headquarters (2021.02.17)
9. Masatsugu Ono (Turvill, Angus, translator), Lion Cross Point (2021.02.18)
10. Baltasar, Eva (Sanches, Julia, translator), Permafrost (2021.02.22)
11. Yoss (Frye, David, translator), Super Extra Grande (2021.02.23)
12. Bae Suah (Smith, Deborah, translator), A Greater Music (2021.02.24)

Short Prose

22. Buckell, Tobias S., “The Bars at the End of the World”, Patreon (2021.02.01)
23. Goder, Beth, “History in Pieces“, Clarkesworld #173 (2021.02.02)
24. Laban, Monique, “The Failed Dianas“, Clarkesworld #173 (2021.02.02)
25. Bookreyeva, Anastasia (Nayler, Ray, translator), “Terra Rasa“, Clarkesworld #173 (2021.02.02)
26. Ulmer, James, “Gardenia”, Coffin Bell #4.1 (2021.02.03)
27. Rodgers, Craig, “Return Policy”, Coffin Bell #4.1 (2021.02.03)
28. Bernardo, Troy, “Smoky”, Coffin Bell #4.1 (2021.03.02)
29. Woolf, James, “Mackenzie’s Leap”, Coffin Bell #4.1 (2021.03.02)
30. Punzo, Andrew, “Hair and Nail and Blood and Bone (You’re Beautiful)”, Coffin Bell #4.1 (2021.02.03)
31. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, “The Last Surviving Gondola Widow“, Clarkesworld #101 (2021.02.14)
32. Clare, Gwendolyn, “Indelible“, Clarkesworld #101 (2021.02.20)
33. Robson, Kelly, “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill“, Clarkesworld #101 (2021.02.24)