indeed_distract | January through March novel-reading

Hello, again! It's been the usual three months since I posted last, which on the one hand is wild because it feels like a great deal happened over that time (most of a school term for my spouse and kids, a fairly intense back injury from which I have now mostly recovered, a lovely weeklong visit from my best friend, a bunch of mostly terrible political events at a breathless pace, and more!), but on the other hand is not a span in which I got very much novel-reading done by my own standards: three and three and two makes eight books for the first quarter of this year. Since this was the year-chunk in which Hugo nominations happened, I did also read somewhere around 60 pieces of short fiction in February and (mostly) March in an attempt to be an informed voter -- which, come to think of it, may be why that's the month with only two books in it. Anyway, a list:

January

Hisashi Kashiwai - The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Shelley Jay Shore - Rules for Ghosting
August Clarke - Metal From Heaven

February

Samuel R. Delany - The Atheist in the Attic
Nghi Vo - The City in Glass
Anne de Marcken - It Lasts Forever and then It's Over

March

A. J. Demas - The House of the Red Balconies
Justinian Huang - The Emperor and the Endless Palace