by Hope Nicholson (Editor)
★★★★
Category archives: read
Sultana’s Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones
by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
★★★
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
★★★★★
In the Country
by Mia Alvar
★★★½
Thick: And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
★★★★★
The Dark Forest
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2)
by Liu Cixin
Reading about an ant painstakingly tracing each character on a gravestone signals the early slog. The flatness of the first two parts cannot be pinned entirely on the alternate translator either. The details are dull and offensive. Women squeal and fuss, and when … Read more
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
While I didn’t connect with the Christian elements, Austin Channing Brown’s essays are concise and stunningly reaffirming in naming and cutting to the core of white supremacy and the structures of racism.
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
The first third was easily engrossing. It was refreshing to learn about the history of Ikuno and about the Korean diaspora in Japan. The formula of family sagas is difficult to escape though. The older generations stoically live through readable hardship, while the younger generation is spoiled … Read more
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
by Zora Neale Hurston
★★★★½
Spirits Abroad
by Zen Cho
Zen Cho is my new favourite short story writer. Generally I find magical realism exhausting and irrelevant (García Márquez). Spirits Abroad is the first work I’ve read whose magical elements complement the stories—which pulse with inventiveness and humour.
Wildcard
(Warcross #2)
by Marie Lu
★★★
Warcross
(Warcross #1)
by Marie Lu
I didn’t know I needed this book in my life till I started it. It’s populated with my personal wish fulfilment characters in a rainbow of representation.
Picture Us in the Light
by Kelly Loy Gilbert
** spoiler alert **
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
by Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber
★★★★
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
★★★
Ayiti
by Roxane Gay
★★★½
My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
★★★★½
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
A peripheral impression from this vital autobiography is of Clemantine’s sister Claire not seeing her as a full person in their experiences together, and how most adults don’t treat children with recognition, of having the universal capacity for pain and insecurity and dreams, and as equally … Read more
Practice Makes Perfect: French Conversation
by Eliane Kurbegov
It’s excellent to have grammar, vocabulary, and idiomatic phrases in context. Well-formatted and easy to breeze through.
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
by Tanya Talaga
★★★★½