Summary: A fictional story in response to the Muslim immigration/travel ban from the first Trump administration. I picked this up on sale years ago, but like many books I pick up on sale, it can takes years get around to reading it. I read it today in part because I have been trying to decide … Read more
Summary: A girl finds herself with powers she did not ask for, without a name or a family. Remote Control is the seventh book I have read by Nnedi Okorafor, but the first in the last four years. I continue to like this length of book, a long novella or a short novel. The print … Read more
Summary: Sunny Nwazue, an American born Nigerian teen discovered in the last book that she has both powers and dangers she couldn’t dream about, the story continues. Akata Warrior is the sixth book by Nnedi Okorafor I have read in the past couple of years. Okorafor is a fantasy author that occasionally mixes science fiction … 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
Summary: An outcast finds out yet another reason for her to be outcast. Akata Witch is the fourth book by Nnedi Okorafor that I have read in about 18 months and I will keep reading Okorafor’s books. I started Akata Witch immediately after finishing The White Thread, the third book in the contemporary young adult … Read more
Summary: Binti returned home to try to find stability; she found more confusion, realizing that the home she thought she understood was not what she understood. And now she also brought war to her home. Part of what is important about alien stories is that they are alien. Part of what is important about reading … Read more
Summary: After spending a year at college, Binti goes home to face her family. Science Fiction is the perfect genre to explore so many different ideas. Binti and its follow-up book Binti: Home are both mostly about what it means to grow up, leave home, and be changed by the process so that you are … Read more
Summary: An African teen in the future leaves her (traditional) home to attend a university on another planet. A couple of days ago, I was describing Octavia Butler as the only female African American science fiction author that I could think of. The next day, I received an email from Amazon about a book they … Read more
Summary: Discussion of how understanding the Medieval world and its books help to understand CS Lewis. Over the years, I have read an enormous amount by or about CS Lewis. I am not Lewis scholar, I have not been systemically enough and I certainly haven’t read enough to know what the academy thinks of Lewis, … 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