This is the dawning of the age of Andrew writing wrap-ups on time! Hopefully. I will be playing some catch-up with writing these wrap-ups over this Memorial Day weekend, with April’s coming soon, and May’s following after that. February-March really illustrates a transition period towards what has been the dominant theme of my reading thisContinue reading “February and March 2023 reading wrap up”

I’ve been reading, but at this point it should be abundantly clear that I haven’t been writing. Part of the delay in the December wrap-up is that I actually wrote about a few of these books in my Favorite Books of 2022 rundown, so it felt unnecessary to expand upon them further. Alas, guilt andContinue reading “A late (and quick) reading wrap-up from december ’22 through january ’23”

Before you ask, I was traveling a lot in November, and then work just got crazy. Also, I was reading a lot, as evidenced by the 28 books I listed. October is my favorite month of the year to read because I get to unashamedly go full-horror, full-spooky, full-autumn. Twenty-one books in that month isContinue reading “A rapid fire october + november 2022 reading wrap-up”

I had every intention of just lumping September’s reads into October’s wrap-up as a lazily do for months that weren’t spectacular. However, I’m already at 12 books for October, so I figured it would be smarter to just throw together a quick, very late wrap-up of all of my reads from September. In September IContinue reading “September 2022’s (brief) reading wrap-up”

Are we over halfway through September by the time I am writing this? Yes. Does that matter? Probably, especially in one case. August was a fun reading month, and had all of the things I love most: literary ghost stories, some fantasy, some science-fiction, some queer literature, and a new all-time favorite to top itContinue reading “August 2022 reading wrap-up”

A weak reading month in June forced me to wait a bit longer once again, but patience pays off with this supersized monthly wrap-up! As with March, I found very little inspiration in the books I finished in June, but I came back firing on all cylinders with my reads in July! There was aContinue reading “June + july 2022 reading wrap-up”

May is the new October, apparently! At the end of last month, I had a lot of fun reading Where They Wait, and I decided to keep the horror train rolling into May. I didn’t realize that the horror train really wouldn’t stop, save for one detour that now serves as a bizarre outlier inContinue reading “May 2022 reading wrap-up”

Let me explain. March was such a mediocre reading month and I struggled for days to pretend I enjoyed four of the five books I read enough to call them “Best of the Month.” Finally, I decided that life was too short and that I would combine the wrap-up with April’s, which proved to beContinue reading “March + April 2022 reading wrap-up”