by Anneliese A. Singh
★★★
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
by Samra Habib
★★★½
Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected
by Jagmeet Singh
★★★★½
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
by Jennifer Gunter
★★★★
Sula
by Toni Morrison
★★★½
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
by Zahra Hankir (Editor)
★★★★½
Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
(Laksa Anthology Series #3)
by Lucas K. Law, Derwin Mak (Editors)
Read:
- “DNR” by Gabriele Lee ★★★
- “Meridian” by Karin Lowachee ★★★
- “Crash” by Melissa Yuan-Innis ★★★
- “Memoriam” by Priya Sridhar ★★
- “Decision” by Joyce Chng ★
- “Moon Halves” by Anne Carly Abad ★★
- “The Bridge of Dangerous Longings” by Rati
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.
Half-Star Books
(mostly pre-2016)
Books I Detested and Abandoned
- Adams, Richard – Watership Down
- Atwood, Margaret – The Year of the Flood
- de Botton, Alain – How Proust Can Change Your Life (also made me never want to read Proust)
- Cohen, Leonard – Beautiful Losers
- Colombani, Laetitia – La Tresse
- Ferrante, Elena –
Going To Meet The Man
by James Baldwin
★★★★
Homes: A Refugee Story
by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
★★★★½
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
by Nikesh Shukla (Editor)
★★★★
Soufi, mon amour
by Elif Shafak
★★★½
Another Brooklyn
by Jacqueline Woodson
★★★★
Searching for Sylvie Lee
by Jean Kwok
The parts I appreciated touch on the experiences of children and grandchildren of immigrants in Europe. The socialisation of dehumanisation—with a quick sampling in racist children’s songs, the German version of rock-paper-scissors (if you point it out to them they say, ‘What? That’s what Chinese sounds like’), television … Read more
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
by James Baldwin
★★★★
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
by Laila Lalami
★★★
The Devil Finds Work
by James Baldwin
★★★★
No Name in the Street
by James Baldwin
★★★★
Difficultés expliquées du français for English Speakers
by Alain Vercollier, Claudine Vercollier, Kay Bourlier
I’m really into well-formatted language-learning textbooks and this is one. It’s not visually busy which blights many modern textbooks, it’s colour-coded sensibly so that pertinent information is accessible at a glance, and the exercises are helpfully reinforcing.