by Toni Morrison
★★★½
Tag archives: fiction
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
Going To Meet The Man
by James Baldwin
★★★★
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
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
by Laila Lalami
★★★
Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid
★★★★
The True Queen
(Sorcerer Royal #2)
by Zen Cho
★★★
The Street
by Ann Petry
I resented having to read through the chapters that presumably were to humanise the superintendent. We learn that he’s never had the capacity to socialise with other men, has lived in cellars too long, but at the same time he has absorbed the misogyny of our culture just … Read more
Sorcerer to the Crown
(Sorcerer Royal #1)
by Zen Cho
While I’m into Manglish, it’s a dragging chore to wade through stilted, pompous fantasy-speak. On top of that, referring to the female of the species so insistently is eminently irritating. It’s hard to stomach fantasy when one creates a world of dragons and fairies and … Read more
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
Believably melodramatic until the absolute betrayal in “The Two”.
She Would Be King
by Wayétu Moore
★★★★
Juliet Takes a Breath
by Gabby Rivera
★★★
Sour Heart
by Jenny Zhang
★★★
Death’s End
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)
by Liu Cixin
In between significant and smaller blind spots—including, like Goethe, promoting a stalker’s idea of love—is a work of phenomenal imagination. It’s the most absorbing book of the three, and excitingly explores ideas of humans in time and space.
Trail of Lightning
(The Sixth World #1)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
★★★★
The Marrow Thieves
Cherie Dimaline
Like Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower this is an intensely believable dystopia with anxiety-inducing on-the-run survivalism.
There were a few off points. I wish Dimaline didn’t include the rivalry between the protagonist and a later character or at least had Frenchie apologise and own up to lashing out … Read more
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
by Danielle Evans
★★★★
Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time
by Hope Nicholson (Editor)
★★★★