Summary: A Woman wakes up to discover the Earth as she knows it is no longer, and the only hope of survival is an alien species that has questionable motives. Dawn is the first book that I have finished reading from KindleUnlimited’s library. I actually already owned the kindle edition, but the audiobook is included in KindleUnlimited so … Read more
Summary: A very different vampire story than the recent Twilight/True Blood variety. Do you get tired of me saying, “This is an author that I have been wanting to read for a while”? Because I am a bit tired of writing it. But it is true. Butler was a unique writer. She was an African … Read more
Summary: From the isolation of covid-19 (in NYC) a book-length discussion of the nine women that Wilkinson would like to have dinner with. I think Alissa Wilkinson is one of the best critic of the arts writing today. Primarily she writes about movies at Vox, but she previously was the head movie critic at Christianity Today. … Read more
I have read fairly widely around various issues of race, but certainly, there are far more books that I have not read than that I have read. So a book not listed here is likely not here because I have not read it or haven’t written about them. I fully realize that this is an … Read more
I have read fairly widely around various issues of race, but certainly, there are far more books that I have not read than that I have read. So a book not listed here is likely not here because I have not read it or haven’t written about them. I fully realize that this is an … Read more
Every year I create reading goals and mostly fail at them. My goals are rough guidelines, more than hard goals. This year I accomplished some of them. I had a goal to finish the fiction of three authors. I finished all of Marilynne Robinson and Flannery O’Connor’s fiction. But I still have one more Octavia … Read more
Summary: The child of a violent rape in a post-apocalyptic future Africa is named Onyesonwu, or Who Fears Death. Who Fears Death seems to be Nnedi Okorafor’s best-known book. But that may be surpassed with her recent Binti trilogy. This is the fifth of Okorafor’s books I have read in the last 18 months or so. … Read more
I am ambivalent about posting a best of 2017 list. My books are not, for the most part books that were published in 2017. And what is best, or most important for me, is unlikely to be the best for anyone else. So this is a recounting of what is important, but not really what … Read more
Summary: A reflection on eight years of Atlantic Essays during the time of Obama. When I first heard about We Were Eight Years in Power, I was excited for a book from Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Obama years. Coates both is a serious critic of Obama and someone that has strongly defended him. I am … Read more
Summary: A multi-generational starship is attempting to build a human colony on another world. One of the reasons that science fiction has been historically popular is that it in general a hopeful genre. Science fiction dreams of new worlds being discovered, the expansion of humanity across the galaxy, technological progress. Or at least that has … Read more