by Kate Raworth
★★★★
Category archives: ★★★★
The Cancer Journals
by Audre Lorde
★★★★
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
by Audre Lorde
★★★★
How to American: An Immigrant’s Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
by Jimmy O. Yang
I enjoyed reading most about his return visit to Hong Kong, his personal reflections on identity and belonging. Even tempered with self-deprecation, the rest is a little bit too in the belly of noxious standards of success and masculinity. I would be like his father, though, and … Read more
Necessity
(Thessaly #3)
by Jo Walton
★★★★
Mise Au Point: Grammaire Française, Vocabulaire et Textes
by Michel A. Parmentier
It’s a textbook for learning French in Quebec so you’ll read about the passé surcomposé for example.
Excellent intermediate grammar notes. I really like how the illustrative sentences stick to the theme of each chapter (language and communication, journalism, entertainment, school, work, economics, accommodation, food, personal care, … Read more
The Philosopher Kings
(Thessaly #2)
by Jo Walton
** spoiler alert **
If Beale Street Could Talk
by James Baldwin
★★★★
The Just City
(Thessaly #1)
by Jo Walton
★★★★
The Three-Body Problem
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
by Liu Cixin
★★★★
The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
★★★★
Unexpected Stories
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★
Imago
(Xenogenesis #3)
by Octavia E. Butler
The most frustrating aspect of Adulthood Rites and Imago is the same as in Survivor, the book Octavia disowned, which is the essentialism of race. In Survivor, blue Kohn are leaders; in the Xenogenesis series, humans and Oankali are also set in their respective singular … Read more
Adulthood Rites
(Xenogenesis #2)
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★
Parable of the Talents
(Earthseed #2)
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★
Parable of the Sower
(Earthseed #1)
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★
Survivor
(Patternmaster #3.5)
by Octavia E. Butler
Octavia ejected Survivor from the canon of her work because of its racial essentialism, with the Kohn having strict social classes according to colour. Aside from this element, Octavia’s exploration of space is utterly absorbing, whether humans believe they are graduating from the earth or … Read more
Mind of My Mind
(Patternmaster #2)
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
★★★★