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Monthly archives: March 2020
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call
by Arthur Manuel
★★★★
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes
by Jessica Pan
I’m largely resistant to labels, self-mythologising, and platitudes of self-help, but these aspects were balanced out with a respect for embracing uncertainty and Jessica’s comic tone.
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
by Amanda Montell
There is a lot of repetition of the linguist’s mantra describe don’t prescribe. Chapter eight includes a wincing mess about how we have rebellious sexist insults because our mothers were our first examples of authority figures who restricted our freedoms.
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
★★★
The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
★★★
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
by Darnell L. Moore
★★★★
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
by Nadia Murad
★★★★
Danses de Guerre
by Sherman Alexie
★★★½
Traplines
by Eden Robinson
Only finished the title story, which was excellent.
The Seep
by Chana Porter
★★★
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
★★★
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
★★★★
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
by Rebecca Solnit
Her metaphors seem to take on the teetering logic of numerology. “Voter Suppression Begins at Home” brought up something I never thought about before though.
Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being
by Romesh Ranganathan
The mystique is obliterated. I was disappointed by his shallow, regurgitating defence at the end of chapter nine; punching down subverts nothing. I am however heavily into self-deprecation and anecdotes of social inoperativeness (plus laid-back veganism) so this book had the highest laugh rate out of any comic … Read more