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When Dimple Met Rishi
A month ago, I became an aunt to an adorable and winsome boy named Rishi. Around the same time, people started telling me about the book When Dimple Met Rishi, and I thought I would read the book and...
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Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
I have read and enjoyed a few of Mohsin Hamid's novels on audiobook, and Exit West was no exception. The spare, sparse writing style that somehow builds to create beautiful, moving stories is present...
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Sea of Poppies
Here, she said, taste it. It is the star that took us from our homes and put us on this ship. It is the planet that rules our destiny. - Deeti, describing a poppy seed I have had Amitav Ghosh'Sea of...
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie - A Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss'Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie - A Tale of Love and Falloutis a beautiful book. It is beautiful because of the amazingly subtle artwork that implies more than it compels,...
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The Best We Could Do
Sometimes I'll Google phrases like "best diverse comic books" and come across titles I've never heard of, such as this gem by Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do. Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and left the...
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
I have lived my whole life by the Great Lakes, specifically Lake Michigan. I love the vastness of these waters, like interior freshwater oceans. I grew up visiting the beaches and now walk along the...
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Testosterone Rex, by Cordelia Fine
There are a few times in her book Testosterone Rex in which Cordelia Fine self-deprecatingly talks about how, when she introduces herself to people, she is always saddened by the fact that she is not...
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Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer
I first heard about the book One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia, on Ana's blog in 2014. Me being me, I read the book in 2017. So I'm a little late to the party, but the party is still...
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
I read Sam Quinones'Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic for a new book club I'm joining. I have had it on my radar since it came out, but I admit that I was wary of reading it....
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A Closed and Common Orbit
Last year, I dipped my toes into (feminist, multicultural) science fiction at the behest of a very close friend, and this year, I am jumping straight in. One of my favorite sci fi novels of 2016 was...
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Trevor Noah's Born a Crime
I don't watch The Daily Show very often, mostly because I don't watch TV all that often. I didn't know much at all about Trevor Noah when he took over after Jon Stewart left. I have only watched a...
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Rolling Blackouts, by Sarah Glidden
I heard about Sarah Glidden's Rolling Blackouts: Displatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq on NPR's Book Concierge. Glidden traveled to the Middle East with some friends who work as independent...
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Whatever happened to interracial love?
I heard about Kathleen Collins and her collection of short stories, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?, in the New York Times Book Review, where I get many of my reading recommendations (and which...
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Women Culture and Politics
Women Culture and Politics is the first Angela Y Davis book I've ever read. For those of you who may not know, Angela Davis is a hugely influential feminist communist activist. She was very active in...
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The Association of Small Bombs
Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombsis one of those books that is very popular with critics. It's also one of those books that you read and know that is it incredibly well-written and has a...
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
Charlie LeDuff's Detroit: An American Autopsy is a book I've had on my list to read for a while, I think since I finished grad school. As is typical for me, I bought the book on Kindle and then...
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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
I read Kij Johnson's The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe with my feminist science fiction book club, and it's the first book I've read that made me really love being in a book club. I'm not very good at...
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The One Hundred Nights of Hero, by Isabel Greenberg
I adored Isabel Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, so as soon as I heard about her new book The One Hundred Nights of Hero, I put it on hold at the library. And this book was just what I...
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Dispatches from Dystopia, by Kate Brown
I heard about Kate Brown's Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten on NPR's book concierge. It's a series of essays about "the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we...
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Review-itas: Books that confused me
Guys, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee confused me so much that I cannot even explain the cover of this book to you. Does it fit with the story? I don't know. I mean, the story takes place in space,...
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