The next book I’m reading during Pride Month is All Things Seen and Unseen by RJ McDaniel. I borrowed it from the Queer Liberation Library because I wanted someone I could read while on the go.
I've been indulging myself by re-reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's 'Braiding Sweetgrass' this weekend. It's such a gift to look at the world through her eyes.
"When we braid sweetgrass, we are braiding the hair of Mother Earth, showing her our loving attention, our care for her beauty and well-being, in gratitude for all she has given us." #CurrentlyReading#BookQuote#reading#books@bookstodon
As usual, I'm late to the party, but now am about a third of the way through R.F. Kuang's 'Babel' and thoroughly enjoying the storytelling and how Kuang weaves in such things as British colonialism, the fascinating, dangerous complexities of language, the concentration of power and the fight against it, and so much more into a wonderfully re-imagined Oxford that is recognizable, yet entirely different. #FridayReads#CurrentlyReading#books@bookstodon
A fellow social worker I knew from grad school shared this book on her Instagram story and recommended it. I was on a hold list for the ebook at my local library for weeks, but now, I have it. I’m also listening to the #audiobook read by the author.
Now #reading Whipping Girl by Julia Serano. Love the emphasis on how subconscious sex, gender expression, and sexual orientation are largely independent of one another.
How I love when historical romance historicals, Mother Bloor just got a shout out in conjuction with Nebraska.
(Loup City women chicken workers strike, for those not in the know or didn't grow up in NE)
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
Releases tomorrow!
Buy it alone for the random NE communist connection mention
My second book for AANHPI Heritage Month is The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh.
Partial synopsis from the inside book jacket: “Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Dương sisters were cursed.
It started with their ancestor Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love. So a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never know love or happiness, and the Dương women would give birth to daughters, never sons.
A multinarrative novel brimming with levity and candor, The Fortunes of Jaded Women is about mourning, meddling, celebrating, and healing together as a family. It shows how Vietnamese women emerge victorious, even if the world is against them.”