by Joseph Jenkins
★★★★
Category archives: ★★★★
Everything I Know About Love
by Dolly Alderton
★★★★
The Humanure Handbook: Shit in a Nutshell
by Joseph Jenkins
★★★★¼
Good Material
by Dolly Alderton
★★★¾
The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
by Ianto Evans, Linda Smiley, and Michael G. Smith
There are white moments even excluding quoting Thoreau. Overall anticapitalist and the opposite of gatekeeping. I especially appreciated the chapters on hand tools and the introduction to codes and permits.
★★★★¼
Ghosts
by Dolly Alderton
★★★★¼
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
★★★★
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
by Kiese Laymon
★★★★
Patty Lyons’ Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 Sanity Saving Hacks for Better Knitting
by Patty Lyons
★★★¾
Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid
★★★★
The English Understand Wool
by Helen DeWitt
Can’t help but try my hand at adding to the collection of maltranslations.
As much as I would like to convey small-town life to you across two hundred pages, I wouldn’t have the barbarity to make you suffer through the garrulousness and sly barbs of provincial conversation. Me, … Read more
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors)
- “Kushtuka” Mathilda Zeller ★★★½
- “White Hills” Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★½
- “Navajos Don’t Wear Elk Teeth” Conley Lyons ★★★½
- “Wingless” Marcie R. Rendon ★★★
- “Quantum” Nick Medina ★★★
- “Hunger” Phoenix Boudreau ★★★½
- “Tick Talk” Cherie Dimaline ★★★
- “The Ones Who Killed Us” Brandon Hobson DNF
Moon of the Turning Leaves
(Moon of the.. #2)
Waubgeshig Rice
★★★★
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
by Tracey Thorn
Can read like fiction in memoir form for someone who hadn’t heard any of her music before picking this up. I loved the self-deprecation, thoughts on politics and music in the 70s and 80s, and the irrepressible spirit of creativity.
We Are the Crisis
Convergence Saga #2
Cadwell Turnbull
★★★★
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
by Octavia E. Butler
Less a parade of interviewers who haven’t read her work asking the same flat questions than usual. She only had to mention Devil Girl from Mars once out of the ten and refer to Steve Barnes and Samuel R. Delany twice. Delany’s intro is disjointed and abrupt, … Read more
I Am Spock
by Leonard Nimoy
I read this having seen more SNW Spock than TOS. I knew of two contributions by Nimoy that gave me a positive impression and spurred me to read another memoir by someone I wasn’t necessarily a dedicated fan of (following the vibrant Fingers Crossed by Miki Berenyi). One … Read more
Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
by Aparna Nancherla
★★★★
Since I Laid My Burden Down
by Brontez Purnell
★★★★
Small Joys
by Elvin James Mensah
★★★★