The Resolution: review one book per month

[nishatalitha]

The Background: I am going on trip to New Zealand imminently, and rather than pack many many hardcopy books, I am stocking up my kindle with things I want to read. I asked my friends on some social media for genre recommendations, noting that I had a particular interest in diversity, namely race or gender.

The Realisation: The majority of

Comments

[shihadchick]

Nnedi Okorafor is WONDERFUL and you have just reminded me to go check if more of her books are at the library yet, so thank you. :D

I think you may enjoy Sunny Moraine's Crowflight? It's the first in a trilogy (last one came out either this month or next) and there's some really interesting worldbuilding/mythology stuff going on in it, plus non gender-binary characters (who I understand are even more prominent in book 2 which I'm about to pick up.)

[nishatalitha]

Nnedi Okorafor is wonderful; I can't believe I ddin't know about her earlier! I've still only read Lagoon but am adding others to my to-read list.

I need to get borrowing e-books from my local library set up. Ideally, I want to read them on my kindle, but not sure if that will work.

I will check out Sunny Moraine. That sounds intriguing.

[shihadchick]

Chris grabbed me a bunch of books a while back from the library but I haven't checked back in since. Akata Witch was my favourite of the ones I have read so far.

Also, I bet you could add in the local libraries here when you're back visiting as well; I've just started taking advantage of ebook borrowing recently and it's been awesome. Way more user friendly than I was expecting.

I must add that they're one of my good friends and have been for years, but Sunny is a fantastic writer (and has been getting great reviews from a lot of other people, too). They do giveaways for new books pretty often, too, so maybe poke around goodreads a bit? I'm currently hanging out for a standalone in their Line and Orbit universe which is going to focus on my favourite character from the first book.

[nishatalitha]

I've no objection to short stories and will keep those in mind. I'd probably prerfer novels to review; might aim for only one or two short story collections? Definitely note them to read though.

[mashugenah]

I had never heard of any of those authors, so you're going to be enlightening at least one person. :)

Looking at my (admittedly meagre) UK bookshelf, I own only one book by someone who isn't a white man - a book you can probably guess. It's a bit astonishing to realise, in fact.

[nishatalitha]

Excellent. My work is done just begun.

I'm sure your NZ bookshelf is much better stocked. (Book three comes out this year; I could give you book two for your birthday if you haven't already read it.)

[stephanie_pegg]

I really liked the couple of books by N.K. Jemison I've read. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and its sequel.

[nishatalitha]

N.K. Jemison's books are awesome and I am really looking forward to The Fifth Season later this year. I highly recommend her.