2019 Reading List Monthly Update: April

Books read in April of 2019:
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"Death in Midsummer" (Yukio Mishima) 4-2-19
"Faustina and Other Stories" (Renée Vivien and Helène de Zuylen de Nyevelt) 4-3-19
"The Invention of Dreams" (Tom Champagne) 4-7-19
"Batman: Knightfall Volume 2" (Chuck Dixon/Doug Moench/Alan Grant) 4-9-19
"Some Pink Star" (Sophie Essex) 4-16-19
"The Man Who Murdered His Muse" (James Champagne) 4-17-19 *
"The Pale Ape and Other Pulses" (M.P. Shiel) 4-18-19
"Third Instar" (David Gullen) 4-20-19
"Smashed" (Junji Ito) 4-21-19
"The War Within" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 4-25-19
"The Life of Tomorrow" (Fillia) 4-25-19
"Love, Sleep & Dreams" (Count Stenbock) 4-26-19
"Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies" (C.G. Jung) 4-27-19
"Amico Di Sandro" (Baron Corvo) 4-30-19
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2019 Reading List Total:
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1. "The Paintings of William Blake" (Raymond Lister) 1-1-19 
2. "Fascination" (Kevin Killian) 1-10-19
3. "Neo-Decadent Manifesto of Women's Fashion" (Justin Isis) 1-11-19
4. "Halyartes and Other Poems in Prose" (Éphraïm Mikhaël) 1-12-19
5. "In the Stillness of Marble" (Teresa Wilms Montt) 1-13-19
6. "Harlem Smoke" (James Champagne) 1-18-19 *
7. "The Shadow" (Maurice Level) 1-20-19
8. "Batman: A Death in the Family" (Jim Starlin/Marv Wolfman) +
9. "Death Mort Tod: A European Book of the Dead" (Steve Finbow/Karolina Urbaniak) 1-26-19
10. "Of Kings and Things" (Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock/ed. David Tibet) 1-27-19
11. "Batman: Sword of Azrael" (Dennis O'Neil) 1-30-19
12. "The Rita: Anatomical Charisma" (Sam McKinlay/Gabrielle Losoncy) 2-1-19
13. "Sea of Love" (Simon Morris) 2-3-19
14. "Inside the Castle" (Josiah Morgan) 2-4-19
15. "War with the Newts" (Karel Čapek) 2-5-19
16. "Granite City Blues" (Josh Peterson) 2-8-19
17. "Bloom" (Kevin Panetta/Savanna Ganucheau) 2-8-19
18. "The Metapheromenoi" (Brendan Connell) 2-10-19
19. "Batman: Prelude to Knightfall" (Chuck Dixon/Doug Moench) 2-13-19
20. "Tosh: Growing up in Wallace Berman's World" (Tosh Berman) 2-24-19
21. "The Ballet of Dr. Caligari and Madder Mysteries" (Reggie Oliver) 2-26-19
22. "Negrophobia: An Urban Parable" (Darius James) 2-27-19
23. "The Secret History of Twin Peaks" (Mark Frost) 3-7-19
24. "This Planet is Doomed: the Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra" (Sun Ra) 3-8-19
25. "Batman: Knightfall Volume 1" (Doug Moench/Chuck Dixon) 3-13-19
26. "Four Circles" (Meg McCarville) 3-16-19
27. "The Purple Cloud" (M.P. Shiel) 3-24-19
28. "Death in Midsummer" (Yukio Mishima) 4-2-19
29. "Faustina and Other Stories" (Renée Vivien and Helène de Zuylen de Nyevelt) 4-3-19
30. "The Invention of Dreams" (Tom Champagne) 4-7-19
31. "Batman: Knightfall Volume 2" (Chuck Dixon/Doug Moench/Alan Grant) 4-9-19
32. "Some Pink Star" (Sophie Essex) 4-16-19
33. "The Man Who Murdered His Muse" (James Champagne) 4-17-19 *
34. "The Pale Ape and Other Pulses" (M.P. Shiel) 4-18-19
35. "Third Instar" (David Gullen) 4-20-19
36. "Smashed" (Junji Ito) 4-21-19
37. "The War Within" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 4-25-19
38. "The Life of Tomorrow" (Fillia) 4-25-19
39. "Love, Sleep & Dreams" (Count Stenbock) 4-26-19
40. "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies" (C.G. Jung) 4-27-19
41. "Amico Di Sandro" (Baron Corvo) 4-30-19
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*= book I have read at least once in the past
+= book I have read before, but not this reprint/edition/translation

Currently Reading:

"White" (Bret Easton Ellis) 

Catechisms of the Starless Cube

After a long period of dormancy/development hell, I think I might FINALLY be ready to start shopping around my long-delayed 3rd short story collection, which originally was to have been titled LAST DARK RIDE but more recently was changed to CATECHISMS OF THE STARLESS CUBE: NINE TALES OF THE GROTESQUE & THE ABSURD (some of the contents were changed as well). As the MS stands now it's a little over 200 pages/88,000 words, so not a super-big book. Essentially as the subtitle states it is 9 stories, really 2 novellas at the beginning and end with 7 shorter stories sandwiched in-between. Anyway the working table of contents is:

The Byzantine Light

Black Noise

The Lovers Reversed

XYscahton

Epistles from the Sunken Track

The Murder Mystery

Snapper's Salvation

The Last Librarian

Chaoskampf

Hopefully now I'll be able to devote myself full-time to the French Decadent short novel I started not too long ago.