Definitely seconding that more people should read it! It's a great book
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Definitely seconding that more people should read it! It's a great book
Although they may not be on sale, I also have a list full of SFF novels by female authors that I can personally recommend. You can also use this affiliate link to browse and head to your local library if you don't want to buy 🥰
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- Kindred
- The Measure
- Beloved
- Parable of the Sower
- and many more!
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf is another book about a female author, but it's also about a rare book dealer who went in search of the books Jane Austen loved, many of which have since been forgotten, as far as the literary canon is concerned. I've heard great things, and it plays right into my interests!
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking tells the history of ten women writers who loved walking and found it to be an essential part of their lives. I expect this to be exactly the sort of calm nonfiction I enjoy, especially with its focus being on female authors!
If the River is Hidden is a short book from an Irish small press. Combining prose and poetry, it follows the journey of two writers along North Ireland's longest river, reflecting on history, the landscape and divisions along the way. I've really enjoyed another by this publisher and have high hopes
Only the Stones Survive is a fantasy novel by an Irish author, featuring the Túatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology. I've read some of these myths previously (in Marie Heaney's collection Over Nine Waves), and I'm looking forward to seeing a modern interpretation of them
The cover of Only the Stones Survive, featuring a rock formation covered in swirling designs, set against a cloudy sky, with a small stream running towards it in the foreground
The cover of If the River is Hidden, featuring an illustration of a winding river separating two banks of green land
The cover of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, featuring an illustration of pine trees and mountains in beautiful sunset colors
The cover of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, featuring the spines of various books with the painted faces of two women peeking out from book-sized gaps
Women's History and Irish-American Heritage (in the US) Month tbr:
- Only the Stones Survive by Morgan Llywelyn
- If the River is Hidden by Cherry Smyth
- Wanderers by Kerri Andrews
- Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
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Guess what?
My new book is officially on sale!
It's about a young woman named Rissa who has to fight in the Coliseum to earn her freedom. Luckily she is a damn good fighter.
It's got a romance subplot, a bit of magic, and an empire teetering on the edge of imploding. You know, the good stuff.
A graphic of ten book covers, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Black God's Drums, A Drop of Corruption, The War of the Worlds, The Dark Child, Treasure Island, Automatic Noodle, Japanese Fairy Tales, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I ended up reading a lot of classics this month! James Baldwin had some powerful words, The Dark Child was an excellent memoir, I read the source material behind familiar-to-me tales like Treasure Island and Alice in Wonderland, and I enjoyed Japanese fairy tales I'd never been told
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The first one in that collection is so powerful!
Seven weeks? They didn't mention that in my AP English literature class, although we certainly enjoyed the book!
Here's a few I haven't seen recommended by others 😁
- The Cloak and its Wizard by R. Z. Nicolet
- The Librarian and the Ghost by Elaine Allen
- The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- Anything Discworld by Terry Pratchett
I did a beta read for this upcoming fantasy novel a year ago, and it already had great character interactions, bits of humor, and an ending that made me not want to put the book down for the last 200 pages. I'm sure it's even better now, and I'm excited to see it's being published at last!
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The Dark Child: an autobiography depicting the author's childhood in what was then French Guinea. Well written, with powerful themes. An underpublicized classic.
Read my full review below!
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This article made me cry. This is the sort of change we can make in the world if we all work together
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Great choices!
A page of text detailing women panning for gold, arranging the services of a praise-singer, and traveling to the smith's workshop with that musician ready to play and sing so the request to make a trinket in time for an upcoming festival might be granted
Imagine if whenever we wanted a pretty trinket we gathered the materials in a sustainable way and hired a musician to sing the praises of the craftsperson we'd like to make it for us. Today I learned that's how they did it in French Guinea in the early 1900s
(Excerpt: The Dark Child by Camara Laye)
The cover of Notes of a Native Son, with a photo of a Black man, only his face shown, as a cutout on a yellow-orange background
"It is the peculiar triumph of society--and its loss--that it is able to convince those people to whom it has given inferior status of the reality of this decree; it has the force and the weapons to translate this dictum into fact"
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
#SundaySentence
It's for charity! You can donate and vote on which charities deserve a portion of the money AND get perks like personalized book recommendations from John Green himself (assuming it's not sold out by the time I post this)!
I didn't write a review of Wuthering Heights because I thought anyone looking for a text-based review could find far better ones than any I would have written. But if you like video reviews, I highly recommend this one by Elaine! She did a fantastic job
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Yeah, sadly I felt the same. I wish he'd kept going in the same direction instead of changing things up
Happy Black History Month 🖤✨
Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books.
We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚
The cover of Parable of the Sower, showing an illustration of a Black woman wearing a long red dress and headdress against a white background with colored shapes like individual flames
The cover of The Vanishing Half, featuring an illustration of two girls made up of blocks of bright colors. Their faces overlap
The cover of The Fifth Season, featuring a floral design seemingly crafted out of metal
The cover of How to Be an Antiracist, with bold and colorful text on a black background resembling a stamp over a white background
This includes so many great books you might have seen me post about, like Parable of the Sower, The Vanishing Half, Invisible Man, The Fifth Season, Binti, Kindred, How to Be an Antiracist. It also has so many more I've heard great things about
Perfect opportunity if you've been waiting for one!
Bookshop .org is celebrating Black History Month with 25% off titles curated by booksellers at Black-owned bookstores! Even better, if you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you can find a Black-owned bookstore near you to support with your purchase
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I'll also be continuing to read Around the World in 80 Days, which I started reading at the end of January. If I end up reading a lot of books again, like I did last month, I have a long list of other possibilities! Maybe To Ride a Rising Storm, maybe An Evening in Guanima, maybe a surprise
A Drop of Corruption is the sequel to The Tainted Cup, which I read in January. Not on theme, just fun.
The Dark Child is a memoir of the author's youth in French Guinea, and I hear it's considered an African classic. I'm looking forward to reading my first book by an author from this country!
The Black God's Drums is a steampunk fantasy novella set during the US Civil War in an alternate timeline. I've heard good things about the author, and this will be the first of his books that I've read!
Notes of a Native Son will likewise be my first by James Baldwin, an essay collection
The cover of The Black God's Drums, showing a Black woman with her hair in braids in the foreground. In the background, the sky is filled with blimps and smoke or clouds
The cover of Notes of a Native Son, with a photo of a Black man, only his face shown, as a cutout on a yellow-orange background
The cover of A Drop of Corruption, showing the illustration of a plant with a hand at its roots, as if connected to them. An intricate border surrounds the illustration and greenery covers the left edge and a portion of the right side
The cover of The Dark Child, showing a drawing of a snake on worn paper and a spiral above it on a black background. Text under the spiral says "The Autobiography of an African Boy"
February (Black History Month to those in the US) TBR:
- The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Dark Child by Camara Laye
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A collage of 12 books, including The Tainted Cup, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, In the Beginning, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, To Shape a Dragon's Breath, The Collected Schizophrenias, Moonshot, Wuthering Heights, Divergent Realms, America the Beautiful?, and The Cloak and Its Wizard
I read a lot of books this month. And they were all good ones!
It's tough to break a habit of spending lots of time in front of a screen, but I'm clearly getting better at it
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