by Audre Lorde
★★★★
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
Struggles presented as universal take on a quality of mocking delusion when the excess of protagonists (only male voices) all become famous millionaires at the top of their fields who own fabulous and plural homes and have access to private jets and Alhambra strolls. The decided main character … Read more
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
by Morgan Jerkins
★½
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
★★★½
How to American: An Immigrant’s Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
by Jimmy O. Yang
I enjoyed reading most about his return visit to Hong Kong, his personal reflections on identity and belonging. Even tempered with self-deprecation, the rest is a little bit too in the belly of noxious standards of success and masculinity. I would be like his father, though, and … Read more
All the Names They Used for God
by Anjali Sachdeva
★★★★½
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
by Pénélope Bagieu
I like the artwork and intention but the writing is awkward to troublesome. There’s a white feminist implication that ‘of course’ racism didn’t exist in France. Two women incidental to a featured woman are called ‘jealous shrews’. Just a couple of examples.
What We Lose
by Zinzi Clemmons
★★★★½
Paper Teeth
by Lauralyn Chow
★
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
★★★★★
Necessity
(Thessaly #3)
by Jo Walton
★★★★
Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
A collection of marriage- and baby-normative stories with nearly identical protagonists. All formidably written of course.
Homesick for Another World
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Capably written single-formula stories that are casually fatphobic, ableist, dismissive of the other while centring another ‘other’.
Starlings
by Jo Walton
★★★★½
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
★★★
The Ultimate French Review and Practice
by David M. Stillman, Ronni L. Gordon
There is a lot of practice as advertised but it’s not a fun language learning resource for review. If you do learn well through steady homework, all the exercises have an answer key in the back. There is also a useful list of idiomatic … Read more
Mise Au Point: Grammaire Française, Vocabulaire et Textes
by Michel A. Parmentier
It’s a textbook for learning French in Quebec so you’ll read about the passé surcomposé for example.
Excellent intermediate grammar notes. I really like how the illustrative sentences stick to the theme of each chapter (language and communication, journalism, entertainment, school, work, economics, accommodation, food, personal care, … Read more
Précis de la langue des signes française : À l’usage de tous
by Olivier Marchal, Thomas Tessier
Magnifiquement illustré et avec un peu d’humour. L’illustration de la lettre “T” dans l’alphabet n’est cependant pas très claire.
En Bonne Forme
by Simone Renaud, Dominique Van Hooff
An excellent mix of reading, vocabulary, grammar notes, exercises, and suggested discussions and other oral activities for the classroom. It’s well-formatted as well which is unfortunately uncommon in language learning textbooks and goes a long way in making a textbook a pleasure to study.
My … Read more
We Love You, Charlie Freeman
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
★★★