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
★★★
Desperate Games
by Pierre Boulle
Five pages in, fully invested in the myth of meritocracy. A ratio of one to twelve signals neither sexism nor racism, and the Nobel prize is apolitical.
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
Full chapters in half a thousand pages aggravatingly steeped in Christian patriarchy, with moderate compensation in a playfulness of language. Lucy must perform for and soothe a domineering, needling, petty, and creepily hovering M. Emanuel, who at a switch is transformed into her life’s hero.
Hugo Advanced French
by Ronald Overy, Jacqueline Lecanuet
★★★★½
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis
by George Monbiot
★★★½
Home Fire
by Kamila Shamsie
★★½
Double Cup Love
by Eddie Huang
★★★
My Real Children
by Jo Walton
★★★★★
