So, it's time for a Wednesday book post

I wasn't reading for a while. Then I was, again.

I've actually read a fair number of books since my last Wednesday book post, which was.... A rather long time ago. May, to be exact. I won't bore you with all the books I've read since then, but I will give you the ones I've read this month.

Jayme Goh (ed.), Wiscon Chronicles Vol 11: Trials by Whiteness
Rosemary ​Joyce (ed.), Revealing ​Ancestral ​Central America
Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl (eds.), Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler
Katherine Burdekin, Swastika Night
Alison ​Weir, ​Katherine ​of ​Aragon, ​the ​True ​Queen
Keeanga-Yamahtta ​Taylor, From ​#BlackLivesMatter ​to ​Black ​Liberation
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction


Books I am currently reading:

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Adilifu Nama, Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film
Mitiarjuk ​Nappaaluk, Saanaq
Joanna Hickson, The First Tudor

There's a particularly interesting story behind Saanaq. It's been called the first Canadian Inuit novel. Written over a period of two decades, first in Inuktitut syllabics (published in transliteration in 1984) and later translated into French (published in 2002) and English (2014), it was commissioned by Catholic missionaries working in Nunavut, who wanted to improve their ability to communicate with the indigenous peoples living in the region. What they asked for was a simple phrasebook. What Nappaluk began writing was an episodic novel that, in telling stories about the Inuit people and their lives, served not only as a reading primer but a record of indigenous life in Nunavut and the arrival of Europeans in the area, from the rarely-heard perspective of an indigenous woman. It's written in a very simple, storytelling style, as befits a language primer, but it is both engaging and provides a fascinating glimpse at life among the Inuit just as Europeans were beginning to encroach on them.


What will I read next? I've no read idea. I seem to be drawn to non-fiction right now. Some of the unread books on my ipad that have been nudging me lately are:

Stephanie ​Coontz ​- ​Marriage, ​a ​History
Jill Lapore - The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Naomi ​Klein - This ​Changes ​Everything

So it coukd be any of those. Or something else.