Unfortunately this isn't really what I was looking for. Good on narrative, but much weaker on analysis.
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pdotb started reading Your Body is Not Your Body by Matt Blairstone
Your Body is Not Your Body by Matt Blairstone, Alex Woodroe
An anthology of over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming creators unite to voice their rage, and the rules of conventional …
pdotb finished reading Day of Reckoning by Mike Wendling
Day of Reckoning by Mike Wendling
'An invaluable guide to the forces of American conspiracy theory that are currently bending our world out of shape' Gabriel …
pdotb reviewed Day of Reckoning by Mike Wendling
'An invaluable guide to the forces of American conspiracy theory that are currently bending our …
Nothing new
3 stars
pdotb started reading In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
pdotb finished reading A Morbid Taste for Bones by Edith Pargeter
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Edith Pargeter, Ellis Peters
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition from the relics’ keepers. Then …
pdotb reviewed A Morbid Taste for Bones by Edith Pargeter
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition …
A pleasant medieval story, but not much of a murder mystery
4 stars
I may have spent far, far too much time down the old-fashioned murder mystery rabbit hole when my kids were little, absorbing Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh, but this didn't really seem to resemble a murder mystery as I'd recognize it. A pleasant enough medieval story, but the murder seemed a bit incidental (and yes, I realize it does sound a bit weird to complain about a story being insufficiently murder-ey, but it feels a bit like a failure of advertising :) ).
Inspired to read this by the latest episode of Radicals In Conversation: plutopress.podbean.com/e/beyond-the-ballot-box-on-the-far-right-with-mike-wendling/
pdotb started reading Day of Reckoning by Mike Wendling
Day of Reckoning by Mike Wendling
'An invaluable guide to the forces of American conspiracy theory that are currently bending our world out of shape' Gabriel …
pdotb finished reading Untangling Self by Andrew Olendzki
pdotb started reading Untangling Self by Andrew Olendzki
pdotb finished reading Nothing Special by Charlotte J. Beck
pdotb started reading A Morbid Taste for Bones by Edith Pargeter
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Edith Pargeter, Ellis Peters
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition from the relics’ keepers. Then …
pdotb finished reading Transcendent 4 by Bogi Takács
pdotb reviewed Transcendent 4 by Bogi Takács
Transcendent 4
4 stars
TBH I've come to question the sense of rating an anthology. After all, if I loved every story, wouldn't that simply mean a perfect overlap between my taste and that of the editor? I read this because it contains a story by Andrew Joseph White, and that certainly didn't disappoint. Although a number of other stories didn't really do anything for me, I have discovered a number of new writers I'd like to read more by (Jose Pablo Iriarte, Tori Curtis, Kathryn DeFazio, and Kylie Ariel Bemis), plus the introduction listed a number of interesting other venues for stories.