Wednesday likes to read

Another week, another Wednesday, another book post.

What I’m currently reading:

Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor
Nerves, Lester Del Ray
Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard
Hidden Youth, Mikki Kendall and Chesya Burke (eds.)
Crip Theory, Robert McRuer
Strangers from a Different Shore, Ronald Takaki


Books completed this week:

Null States, Malka Older
Homintern, Gregory Woods
Lethal Decisions, Arthur Ammann
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, Jennifer Teege
The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor
A. E. van Vogt, Asylum


What’s up next:

Well, still doing Hugo reading, and I have several books I want to read in the Related Works category - Beth Pluchak’s Boundaries, Borders and Reinventing the Future, Liz Bourke’s Sleeping with Monsters, and the tribute anthology for Octavia Butler, Luminescent Threads. Plus a few more novels - including some YA novels for the new not-a-Hugo category -and lots more short fiction - a couple of novellas that sound interesting and quite a few novelettes and short stories.

Plus, I need to do some reading for the 1943 Retro Hugo fiction categories (works published in 1942), if I can find the works I want to check out anywhere online. Fortunately, I’ve already read the books I feel are the strongest contenders for Best Novel - Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Beyond this Horizon by Robert Heinlein and The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. Deadline for nominations is March 16, so I need to get cracking on this.

Plus, I’m trying to focus on reading books by black authors, both fiction and non-fiction, for Black History month. I have lots of books to choose from in my TBR pile that fit the bill, so there’s no problem finding the books to read, it’s just a matter of balancing my two projects for the month.

The Heinlein reread project has been put on the back burner for now, and I’m also feeling a need to reread some of my favourite books by Ursula Le Guin, but that will have to wait til March.

So many, many, many books, so very little time.