diverse december wrap-up

I got bingo! Here's a better version of the graphic that I have on my twitter account: However, I did have plans to read a lot more! Here's my contenders for some of the other squares, all of which I have already: Non-Western Cultural Fantasy: The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh Refugee MC: The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla …

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diverse december: LGBT+ in SFF

And here we are! I've reached bingo - and WHAT A BOOK to finish with! Santa Olivia is a dystopian science-fiction novel by Jacqueline Carey. It follows Loup Garron, a young queer girl who also happens to be the daughter of a Wolf-Man - a soldier who has been genetically engineered to stronger, faster, and …

diverse december: neurodiversity

This was one of the spaces I was most interested to get to in the Diversity December Bingo. I haven't read a lot of books about neurodiverse characters, and I thought it was time to change that with Kathryn Erskine's Mockingbird. The main reason why I chose this book is because the main character is …

diverse december: PoC superheroes

We're coming close to bingo! Today's post is Rachel Davidson Leigh's Hold, which is my choice for the PoC superheroes space! (Although it could have also been used for the LGBT+ in SFF, and PoC/Interracial M/M! I love how intersectional this book is.) Luke can stop time. But right now, that's the least of his …

diverse december: poc on book cover

Hello hello! This is yet another book that I hadn't actually planned on reading for Diverse December, but I had to read it for university, and it fit quite well. The book I'm talking about today? Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing. Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in …

diverse december: mental health awareness

Aaaaand welcome back to my Diversity December Bingo! I hadn't actually planned for this to be one of my squares, but I had randomly picked up The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness, and realised that it fit very well. What if you aren’t the Chosen One? The one who’s supposed to fight …

diverse december: own voices

I read El Deafo by Cece Bell about a month back now, but I thought it would be a perfect fit for Diverse December's own voices square. This is Bell's graphic memoir (aimed towards children) that discusses her childhood experiences, including how she became deaf, and the deaf kindergarten that she went to. The book really picks …

diverse december: (real world) non-western setting

And Diversity December Bingo continues! This time, I'm reviewing The Book of Memory by Pentina Gappah. This is the story of Memory, an albino woman from Zimbabwe who has been found guilty of the murder of Lloyd, a white man who bought her from her parents at nine years old. She is the only woman …

diverse december: diverse non-fiction

Welcome to the first official square of my Diverse December Bingo: diverse non-fiction. This was one of the squares that most interested me, because I've been making the effort to read different genres this year, including poetry and non-fiction. The book I chose is Negroland by Margo Jefferson, a book I've had on my TBR for quite …

books i want to read in 2017

I know that this is a bit early, but my reading is going to be fairly scheduled this December, what with the Diversity December Bingo. And I want to hold myself accountable - some of these are books that have been on my TBR for years, and I really need to get 'round to them. …