This was an excellent month for book acquisitions. For reading, not so much. Various events conspired to keep my attention span at a minimum, plus it being December I picked a classic Russian novel to read. This year it was Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, which is brilliant, but requires dedicated time to read, and that has simply not been possible. Maybe in January.

So I round out 2024 with 50 acquisitions and 65 volumes read, as well as close to 200 short stories. All in all, not a bad year.

Acquisitions

42. Michael Moorcock, The Whispering Swarm [2024.12.01] – Purchased at Bluestocking Bookshop in Holland, Michigan
43. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Subterranean Press) [2024.12.05] – My Christmas gift to myself this year, from Subterranean Press.
44. New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #3 – Kickstarter reward from their successful campaign.
45. New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #4
46. Phil Tucker, Dawn of the Void (self-published) [2024.12.28]- The deluxe collected omnibus of the Dawn of the Void trilogy, from Tucker’s Kickstarter campaign.
47. Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, volume 1: 1931-1934 [2024.12.30] – Purchased on a whim from Argos Books
48. Peter Pomerantsev, This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Public Affairs) [2024.12.30] – Purchased from Books and Mortar during a walk around town.
49. Victor Serge, What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression (Seven Stories Press) [2024.12.30]- Purchased from Books and Mortar during a walk around town.
50. Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution [2024.12.30] – Purchased from Books and Mortar during a walk around town.

Reading List

Books

65. Eva Baltasar (Julia Sanches, translator), Mammoth [2024.12.03]

Short Prose

173. Jim C. Hines, “Goblin Lullaby” [2024.12.22]
174. Tobias S. Buckell, “By Throat and Void” [2024.12.22]