What Fiction are you reading this week, December 7, 2025? [View all]

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I'm reading To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. 2023 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ASTOUNDING, NEBULA, AND LODESTAR AWARDS • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER AWARDS • A coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure.
"The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations -- until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling." This is a wonderful story and it reminds me a lot of another I recently read, I Inherited a Mixed Animal from Uncle Living in Woods. They're both about living with an unusual creature and are full of word play that makes you laugh out loud. Like the dragon has to learn "witskraft."
I got this book as a birthday gift from my son a couple of months ago. It came from Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, that wonderful shop owned by Louise Erdrich. So, another treasure for me.

Listening to The Guncle by Steven Rowley, a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. Another wonderful story, full of laughs and tears.