by Kit de Waal (Editor)
Read: Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Katy Massey, Jodie Russian-Red, Adam Sharp, Eva Verde, Tony Walsh
Category archives: ★★★½
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes
by Jessica Pan
I’m largely resistant to labels, self-mythologising, and platitudes of self-help, but these aspects were balanced out with a respect for embracing uncertainty and Jessica’s comic tone.
Danses de Guerre
by Sherman Alexie
★★★½
Storm of Locusts
(The Sixth World #2)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
I like dystopian fiction but less a showdown of good versus evil even if the lines are blurred. Rebecca’s style is breezy though.
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
by Charlene Carruthers
★★★½
My Home As I Remember
by Lee Maracle (Editor)
★★★½
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
by Silvia Federici
★★★½
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
by Alicia Elliott
★★★½
Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid
by Cecil Paul
★★★½
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
by Aarti Namdev Shahani
★★★½
The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak
by Priscilla Settee (Editor)
★★★½
The Witches Are Coming
by Lindy West
Her comedy stylings are not for me. There’s also a noticeable void of anti-pseudoscience condemnation in the Goop chapter. But even when she introduces her searing dissections of global political misdirection via the prism of sappingly irrelevant subcelebrities, Lindy West is still a cultural force.
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
★★★½
All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body
by Dani Burlisson (Editor)
★★★½
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
★★★½
Surviving the City
(Surviving the City #1)
by Tasha Spillett, Natasha Donovan (Illustrations)
★★★½
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
by Samra Habib
★★★½
Sula
by Toni Morrison
★★★½
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
While this work is entwined with numbing repetition, Kendi brings forward vital ideas in defining and repositioning antiracist consciousness.
Soufi, mon amour
by Elif Shafak
★★★½