by Toni Morrison
★★★
Monthly archives: January 2022
Skye Falling
Mia McKenzie
★★★★★
Mrs Caliban
by Rachel Ingalls
★★★
How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend
by Linda Addison
★★½
Cyber Mage
by Saad Z. Hossain
I don’t recommend it unless you already found this world immersive. This one is more violent (the action scenes are skimmable). Male is default, women and girls are still introduced by their bodies and/or sexist insults. The title character is practically an incel, and a Mary Sue, … Read more
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
★★★
Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World
by Carolyn Steel
DNF 8%
She invokves fucking Malthus in chapter 1, extending the idea that reproduction rates and the ‘lack of infrastrucutre’ are responsible for hunger and food waste in the Global South, deflecting blame from neo/colonialist capture, wealth extraction, and exploitation. She has some puzzle pieces with decent stats … Read more
People Change
by Vivek Shraya
★★★★
Djinn City
Saad Z. Hossain
A sensitivity reader could transform a fair amount. It’s otherwise enveloping and droll.
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
by Derrick A. Bell
★★★★
Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself
by S. Bear Bergman, Saul Freedman-Lawson (Illustrator)
★★★
Know My Name
by Chanel Miller
★★★★