Book post

Yes, I know it’s Thursday, but I’m still doing a Wednesday reading post because yesterday did not really exist fir me, being as it was a day in which I spent most of the time sleeping in an attempt to recover from my hospital visit on Tuesday.

Books completed in the past week:

Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Ruthanna Emrys, Winter Tide
Nnedi Okorafor, Home
Malka Older, Infomocracy
Jacques Pepin, The Origin of AIDS
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther: A Nation under Our Feet, Book II


Currently reading:

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Damien Duffy
The Power, Naomi Alderman
The Epidemic - A Global History of AIDS, Jonathan Engel
Gregory Woods, Homintern
Zoe Quinn, Crash Override
Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore (this promises to be a slow read, because it is one if those densely researched and written texts that could form the basis of an entire university course, this one dealing with the migrations of Asian peoples to and within America, and I like to read these a chapter at a time, to allow salient points to settle before moving on)


What may come next:

I’m doing some concentrated Hugo-related reading, so more of the recommended sff novels and novellas from last year that interested me - Jemisin’s The Stone Sky, Goss’ The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Yoon Ha Lee’s Raven Stratagem, Malka Older’s Null States, Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southburn, Samatar’s Fallow

Also, I might read a few more Heinlein novels to carry on my project of doing a full reread of all his fiction before Farah Mendlesohn’s book is published this fall.

And there’s a bunch of non-fiction books sitting in my TBR folder that I want to get to: Dorothy ​Roberts, ​Killing ​the ​Black ​Body; Reni ​Eddo-Lodge, ​Why ​I'm ​No ​Longer ​Talking ​to ​White ​People ​about ​Race; Robyn ​Maynard, ​Policing ​Black ​Lives; Pamela ​Palmater, ​Indigenous ​Nationhood; Susan ​Cannon ​Harris, ​Irish ​Drama ​and ​the ​other ​Revolutions; Kate ​Harding, Asking ​for ​It: ​The ​Alarming ​Rise ​of ​Rape ​Culture--and ​What ​We ​Can ​Do ​about ​It; and many, many more.

So the next books I read could be some if these, or they could be something completely different, depending on my mood. There are so many books I want to read, and those darned authors keep writing more of them. (Just kidding, more books is a good thing, even if I don’t live long enough to read all the ones I want to. Maybe heaven is a gigantic library where I can read for all eternity.)