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grundyscribbling) wrote2022-07-27 09:14 pm
grundyscribbling) wrote2022-07-27 09:14 pm
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Reading Wednesday
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse - Fantasy well done. Book 1 of 3? though - and be warned that it stops at a point where if you don't have the sequel you may throw the book across the room in frustration. (I have the sequel, so no harm was done to the library book.) It was, however, the second time I was tempted to throw the book. It becomes apparent about 3/4 of the way through the story that one of the characters is going to die at the end, and by that point you like said character. Which brings me to the next book...
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse - Picks up where Black Sun left off, and in addition to showing us what's happening with the characters we already knew, throws a few more onto the board. Our heroes discover all is not as it seems as they discover information withheld, spies, plots, and begin to chart courses wholly unexpected by the people who thought they were in charge. Am now slightly frustrated about the wait for book 3, which Rebecca Roanhorse has said is currently expected in 2023. (She also said who will be on the cover - Black Sun was Serapio, Fevered Star Naranpa, and the as yet untitled Book 3 will be Xiala.)
(I'm getting my own copies of both of the above. Shout out to Blackwell's for having the most reasonable prices, delivery included.)
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks - Finished. Depressing read because the feminist movement is still having the same conversations now that bell hooks is talking about 40 years ago. It's all here- the wealthy white women concerned primarily with their own definition of 'liberation', the classism, the racism, the need to consider the economic system, sexuality (I don't know that she used the word asexual, but she's certainly talking about the concept)...
The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel - This was an Amazon First Reads book. (I have Kindle Unlimited, at least until my current subscription expires at the end of August. This one sounded more interesting than the others in the month it was offered.) Meena is a globe-trotting photojournalist, who unexpectedly inherits an apartment in Back Bay - she's never heard of the woman who left it to her, and she's definitely not an engineer. The apartment comes with a bit of a mystery and the shadow of the dead, but then so does Meena. There's a bit of a twist, but it's a happy ending kind of story.
Oh, question - should I be including cookbooks in this? I've mostly quit buying them, but I do get them from the library semi-regularly...
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse - Picks up where Black Sun left off, and in addition to showing us what's happening with the characters we already knew, throws a few more onto the board. Our heroes discover all is not as it seems as they discover information withheld, spies, plots, and begin to chart courses wholly unexpected by the people who thought they were in charge. Am now slightly frustrated about the wait for book 3, which Rebecca Roanhorse has said is currently expected in 2023. (She also said who will be on the cover - Black Sun was Serapio, Fevered Star Naranpa, and the as yet untitled Book 3 will be Xiala.)
(I'm getting my own copies of both of the above. Shout out to Blackwell's for having the most reasonable prices, delivery included.)
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks - Finished. Depressing read because the feminist movement is still having the same conversations now that bell hooks is talking about 40 years ago. It's all here- the wealthy white women concerned primarily with their own definition of 'liberation', the classism, the racism, the need to consider the economic system, sexuality (I don't know that she used the word asexual, but she's certainly talking about the concept)...
The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel - This was an Amazon First Reads book. (I have Kindle Unlimited, at least until my current subscription expires at the end of August. This one sounded more interesting than the others in the month it was offered.) Meena is a globe-trotting photojournalist, who unexpectedly inherits an apartment in Back Bay - she's never heard of the woman who left it to her, and she's definitely not an engineer. The apartment comes with a bit of a mystery and the shadow of the dead, but then so does Meena. There's a bit of a twist, but it's a happy ending kind of story.
Oh, question - should I be including cookbooks in this? I've mostly quit buying them, but I do get them from the library semi-regularly...