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Patty Lyons’ Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 Sanity Saving Hacks for Better Knitting

by Patty Lyons

★★★¾

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