by Jamaica Kincaid
★★★★
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Against Innocence
by Jackie Wang
★★★★
The True Queen
(Sorcerer Royal #2)
by Zen Cho
★★★
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine
by Emily Bernard
★★
The Street
by Ann Petry
I resented having to read through the chapters that presumably were to humanise the superintendent. We learn that he’s never had the capacity to socialise with other men, has lived in cellars too long, but at the same time he has absorbed the misogyny of our culture just … Read more
Sorcerer to the Crown
(Sorcerer Royal #1)
by Zen Cho
While I’m into Manglish, it’s a dragging chore to wade through stilted, pompous fantasy-speak. On top of that, referring to the female of the species so insistently is eminently irritating. It’s hard to stomach fantasy when one creates a world of dragons and fairies and … Read more
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
Believably melodramatic until the absolute betrayal in “The Two”.
She Would Be King
by Wayétu Moore
★★★★
Noire n’est pas mon métier
by Aissa Maïga (Editor)
Directors as gatekeepers including Celine Sciamma think claiming colourblindness is progressive. France is a country where the national sense of humour is one of punching down, and the official line is that naming race is racist, which conveniently denies the reality of inequitable experience and keeps the … Read more
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants
by Ann Hui
★★★
Juliet Takes a Breath
by Gabby Rivera
★★★
Sour Heart
by Jenny Zhang
★★★
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
★★½
Death’s End
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)
by Liu Cixin
In between significant and smaller blind spots—including, like Goethe, promoting a stalker’s idea of love—is a work of phenomenal imagination. It’s the most absorbing book of the three, and excitingly explores ideas of humans in time and space.
Trail of Lightning
(The Sixth World #1)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
★★★★
The Marrow Thieves
Cherie Dimaline
Like Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower this is an intensely believable dystopia with anxiety-inducing on-the-run survivalism.
There were a few off points. I wish Dimaline didn’t include the rivalry between the protagonist and a later character or at least had Frenchie apologise and own up to lashing out … Read more
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
by Danielle Evans
★★★★
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
by Yee-Lum Mak, Kelsey Garrity-Riley (Illustrations)
★★★
Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time
by Hope Nicholson (Editor)
★★★★
Sultana’s Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones
by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
★★★