Reading Report: September 2025
This month's reading report has a fish committing credit card fraud, doomscroll the game, and some ominous mail from the red cross.
Hello subscribers! This month's reading report has a fish committing credit card fraud, doomscroll the game, and some ominous mail from the red cross. Plus a slew of inspirational blog posts to get your brain moving. Plus, I'm feeling like a cozy read for October. Drop your most recent cozy read in the comments? Happy reading. ~EM
Inspiration Station
I ended up with a small collection of inspiring things this month.
- Genre Grapevine - A beautiful essay on the impact your creativity can have on others
- Courtney Milan’s Weekly Tea - “I started with the assumption that things weren't hopeless, and I asked myself: if things aren't hopeless, what would I do?”
- Punctured Lines - An essay on nostalgia and in-betweenness and visiting nostalgic places you've never been before by Kristina Ten.
- The Brevity Blog - On reading like a Writer
- Transfer Orbit - Having trouble keeping up with all the short fiction coming out? Transfer Orbit is publishing monthly lists of short fiction by venue. Here's September. And October.
Story Sparks
Random bits to spark your imagination
- Techspot: Fish Commits Credit Card Fraud, Completes Pokemon
- Doomscroll the game - Can't stop won't stop.
- Ominous mail from the Red Cross
What I've Been Reading
- Ashenden or The British Agent - W. Somerset Maugham. After being told my novel draft needed "more spy stuff", I started on a bit of a kick of classic spy novels, more to come. Opens with the most amazing dig at Anton Chekov.
- Rashomon Gate - I.J. Parker. A "mystery of ancient Japan" off the bookshelf at work and pretty good so far.
- Aspects of the Novel - E.M. Forester - for an upcoming review.
- The Deed of Paksenarrion - Elizabeth Moon. Reread inspired by this article.
- Never Say You Can't Survive - Charlie Jane Anders. Reread to finally finish this review.
- Automatic Noodle - Anna Lee Newitz. Robots self-govern their way to a noodle shop. Ended too soon.
- Regent's Mate - Glynn Stewart.
- Void Spheres - Glynn Stewart.
- Constant Reader - Dorothy Parker. Finished as bedtime reading. Still brilliantly funny after all these years. A masterclass in writing book reviews.
