"Binti" - Nnedi Okorafor
"I love sci-fi with people of color, including women who are proficient in math and science. This hit a lot of the same sweet spots as Rivers Solomon's novel "An Unkindness of Ghosts." Highly recommended."
See the rest of my review here. Or follow me on GoodReads! Speaking of GR, from now on, instead of pasting whole reviews I wrote on GR over here on Dreamwidth, I'll be posting round-ups to links over at GoodReads if you don't already follow me there.
So far, this year, I've read the following books. I've marked 5-star books with an asterisk*.
Fiction:
All the Devils Are Here - Louise Penny*
Children of Blood and Bone & Children of Virtue and Vengeance - Tomi Adeyemi*
The Fifth Season & The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin*
Immunity Index - Sue Burke
The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern*
Severance - Ling Ma*
Every Heart a Doorway & Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire
Graphic fiction:
The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs - Celine Loup
Nonfiction:
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay*
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist - Judith Heumann*
Sex Object - Jessica Valenti
Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments - Rowan McCandless
All Boys Aren't Blue - George M. Johnson*
"I love sci-fi with people of color, including women who are proficient in math and science. This hit a lot of the same sweet spots as Rivers Solomon's novel "An Unkindness of Ghosts." Highly recommended."
See the rest of my review here. Or follow me on GoodReads! Speaking of GR, from now on, instead of pasting whole reviews I wrote on GR over here on Dreamwidth, I'll be posting round-ups to links over at GoodReads if you don't already follow me there.
So far, this year, I've read the following books. I've marked 5-star books with an asterisk*.
Fiction:
All the Devils Are Here - Louise Penny*
Children of Blood and Bone & Children of Virtue and Vengeance - Tomi Adeyemi*
The Fifth Season & The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin*
Immunity Index - Sue Burke
The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern*
Severance - Ling Ma*
Every Heart a Doorway & Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire
Graphic fiction:
The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs - Celine Loup
Nonfiction:
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay*
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist - Judith Heumann*
Sex Object - Jessica Valenti
Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments - Rowan McCandless
All Boys Aren't Blue - George M. Johnson*