Reading catch-up
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white_hartI Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder - Sarah Kurchak
This autism memoir has the best title ever, and I found it really interesting and relatable. I picked it up becausekaberett mentioned it, and would definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to read more about autistic experiences.
A Phoenix First Must Burn, ed. Patrice Caldwell
A collection of YA SFF (mainly fantasy) short stories by Black writers featuring Black girls as protagonists. Some really good stories here, particularly the ones by Rebecca Roanhorse (set in New Mexico in the 1880s, with a lesbian protagonist), Justina Ireland (a really funny fantasy story featuring a plus-size Black heroine who triumphs over the wizards trying to take over her country), Patrice Caldwell (a lovely vampire story) and Charlotte Nicole Davis (another f/f story, inspired by the water contamination incident in Flint, Michigan).
Menewood - Nicola Griffith
The sequel to Hild is an incredible immersive experience of a book. I decided to read it now because I was on holiday in Yorkshire where much of it is set, and Griffith's evocation of the landscape meshed with the real landscape around me to such an extent that I felt like I was walking around with the seventh century overlaid on the twenty-first. This chapter of Hild's story takes her from terrible losses to a new beginning; it's a book about grief and recovery, about living in harmony with the natural world, and about leadership and negotiation and an extraordinary woman (and the only slightly less extraordinary women around her) trying to live and prosper in a world full of violence and danger. It's brilliant, and I really hope there will be more of Hild's story soon.
This autism memoir has the best title ever, and I found it really interesting and relatable. I picked it up because
kaberett mentioned it, and would definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to read more about autistic experiences.A Phoenix First Must Burn, ed. Patrice Caldwell
A collection of YA SFF (mainly fantasy) short stories by Black writers featuring Black girls as protagonists. Some really good stories here, particularly the ones by Rebecca Roanhorse (set in New Mexico in the 1880s, with a lesbian protagonist), Justina Ireland (a really funny fantasy story featuring a plus-size Black heroine who triumphs over the wizards trying to take over her country), Patrice Caldwell (a lovely vampire story) and Charlotte Nicole Davis (another f/f story, inspired by the water contamination incident in Flint, Michigan).
Menewood - Nicola Griffith
The sequel to Hild is an incredible immersive experience of a book. I decided to read it now because I was on holiday in Yorkshire where much of it is set, and Griffith's evocation of the landscape meshed with the real landscape around me to such an extent that I felt like I was walking around with the seventh century overlaid on the twenty-first. This chapter of Hild's story takes her from terrible losses to a new beginning; it's a book about grief and recovery, about living in harmony with the natural world, and about leadership and negotiation and an extraordinary woman (and the only slightly less extraordinary women around her) trying to live and prosper in a world full of violence and danger. It's brilliant, and I really hope there will be more of Hild's story soon.
