by Jewelle Gomez
★★★½
Monthly archives: December 2023
2023 Reading Stats
- I read 109 books plus 18 short stories by authors from 27 countries
- 49% of the fiction was SFFH
- My average reading speed was 33 pages an hour in English (twice as slow in French, a third of that in German)
- I read 5 books in French, 3 books in German
Radical Intimacy
by Sophie K. Rosa
★★★½
The Emergent
(Cosmic #2)
by Nadia Afifi
My patience for reading action/thriller got used up. Amira is friends with cops. Hadrian’s linguistic affectation, for someone who moved to the States when he was twelve, is still obnoxious.
Personal Attention Roleplay
by H. Felix Chau Bradley
★★★½
Touched
by Walter Mosley
★★
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
by Nile Rodgers
★★★★★