2015 Media Log

[Calliope]

Well, between bereavement and graduate school, I have done next to no reading. However, here are some short stories I have read - 55 short stories and we're 70 days into the year, which is better than nothing:

January - April
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J. M. Coetzee - A House In Spain - 3/5

James Salter - Comet - 4/5
Eyes of the Stars - 3/5

1) Alexie - War Dances - 5/5
2) Sherman Alexie - Blasphemy - 5/5
3) Sherman Alexie - Ten Little Indians - 5/5
4) Caitlyn Doughty - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons From the Crematory - 3/5



May
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I give up on short stories, here are some more books I've read this year! Slowly gathering speed.

5) Meghan Daum - The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion - 4/5
6) Sarah Gerard - Binary Star - 3/5
7) Chimamanda Adichie - The Thing Around Your Neck - 3/5
8) Chimamanda Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun - 4/5
9) Toni Morrison - God Help the Child - 3/5


June
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10) Laura Van Den Berg - Find Me - 2/5
11) Cyn Vargas - On the Way - 3/5
12) Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station - 3/5
13) Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow - 3/5


July
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14) Cormac McCarthy - The Road - 3/5
15) Catherine Lacey - Nobody is Ever Missing - 4/5
16) Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle: Book One - 5/5
17) Scarlett Thomas - The Seed Collectors - 3/5


August
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18) Thomas King - The Inconvenient Indian - 5/5
19) Lydia Yuknavitch - The Small Backs of Children - 3/5
20) E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime - 3/5
21) Kim Korson - I Don't Have a Happy Place - 3/5
22) Elena Ferrante - The Days of Abandonment - 4/5
23) Meghan Daum - Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Children - 5/5
24) Roland Barthes - Mourning Diary - 3/5
25) Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle: Book Two - 5/5

Graphic Novels: Ms. Marvel Volume Two, The Wicked + The Divine Volume Two, Wayward Volume One, Trees Volume One, Bodies Volume One, Exquisite Corpse, Sex Criminals Volume Two, Vincent, Lost Property


September
(SPOILER)
26) Andy Weir - The Martian - 5/5
27) Jenny Offil - Dept of Speculation - 5/5


October
(SPOILER)
28) Sara Jaffe - Dryland - 3/5
29) Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle: Book Three - 3/5


November
(SPOILER)
30) Aziz Ansari - Modern Romance - 4/5
31) Joe Meno - Marvel and a Wonder - 3/5
32) Lauren Groff - Fates and Furies - 5/5
33) Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists - 4/5
34) Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - 3/5

Graphic Novels: Kate Beaton - Step Aside Pops, Batgirl Volume One


December
35) David Mitchell - Slade House - 3/5
36) Michael Clune - Gamelife - 3/5