August DNFs
A new record – NINE DNFs this month.
Meep.
Tag: PoC
Sunday Soupçons #23
Rereads of two long-time faves!
Sunday Soupçons #22
Chinese bandits taking on the Empire; a world where eating is taboo and sex is casual; and midwives with otherworldly powers!
No More Playing Nice: I Feed Her To the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
In which a Black queer ballerina embraces monstrousness.
July DNFs
A lot of objectively great books that just didn’t work for me. Not their fault!
Not My Goddess: Inanna by Emily H. Wilson
Writing a book this bad about a goddess has to be some kind of blasphemy.
Undomesticated Magic: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
There’s a support group for UnChosen Ones; do I really need to tell you anything else???
Baroque, Bizarre, Brilliant: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
A disaster!queer on the run from AI gods = a confusing but stunning sci fi fever dream.
Soaring High: The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
Queernorm Desi solarpunk with flying plant cities – and a reveal you’ll never see coming.
Fun and Frustrating: The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
When your sibling is kidnapped by the Empire, obviously you go after them.
Even when the Empire’s capital is a giant flying black rhombus with way too many assholes in it.