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Academic (Victorian & 20th & 21st c. literature, fans: Dickens, via Sherlock Holmes, to scifi), feminist, bibliophile, geek; regularly political. She/her.

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Books read in January:
Strong Poison -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Have His Carcase -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Et liv i redningsvest: Dagboksopptegnelser om norsk rasisme -- Sumaya Jirde Ali
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable -- Judith Butler
Strengt fortrolig: Norges hemmelige forsøk på å stanse krigen i Libya -- Henrik Thune
Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers
An Unkindness of Ghosts -- Rivers Solomon
Busman's Honeymoon -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Driftglass -- Samuel R. Delany
Roboten er løs! -- Philip Newth
I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
Palestine -- Joe Sacco
All Systems Red -- Martha Wells
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@bookstodon Books read in April:

Tilbakeslaget -- Carline Tromp
Artificial Condition -- Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol -- Martha Wells
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida -- Shehan Karunatilaka
Hallowe'en Party -- Agatha Christie
Leila -- Prayaag Akbar
Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies From Information Warfare -- David L. Sloss
The English Understand Wool -- Helen DeWitt
Exit Strategy -- Martha Wells
Network Effect -- Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry -- Martha Wells

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@bookstodon Books read in May:

The Russo-Ukrainian War -- Serhii Plokhy
System Collapse -- Martha Wells
The Immortal King Rao -- Vauhini Vara
Peace Has Come -- Parismita Singh
The Hands of the Emperor -- Victoria Goddard

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I don’t generally do reading challenges (my to-read list is too, too long), but I have made an exception this year for The Big Fat Anti-Oppression reading challenge from Books in the Time of Chaos. It has 24 entries, and I figure I will add my reads to this thread at the end of each month. @bookstodon

8. A book speaking about AFSPA or other military laws; 9. A book about the migrant experience; 10. A banned book; 11. A book told from multiple PoVs; 12. an Afrofuturist/Africanfuturist book; 13. A book in your mother tongue; 14. A book on climate change
15. A book about a natural disaster; 16. A book with investigative journalism; 17. A non-fiction graphic novel; 18. A book about revolution/rebellions/uprisings; 19. A queer epistolary novel/bookk; 20. A book of South Asian speculative fiction; 21. A book with a Dalit protagonist; 22. A book about an escape; 23. A book with a neurodivergent protagonist; 24. A book with a Maori author.
Bonus prompts : 1. BIPOC adoptee story; 2. A book with a trans protagonist; 3. A Middle-Eastern fantasy. Guidelines: You can pick books published anywhere in the world; by authors og any natuonality. That said, the idea is to deepen our appreciation of the diversity of voices, especially of voices outside the US/UK who dominate publishing around the world, and so we would encourage that when choosing your books you prioritize those writers who live/work in countries in the Global South

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@bookstodon April:
20: Shehan Karunatilaka’s amazing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, set in the afterlife in Sri Lanka in the 90s.

3: Prayaag Akbar’s Leila, which gives a dystopian extrapolation of Indian nationalism and follows the logic of purity/separation.

Cover of Leila, title given kn red letters on a pale photo pf a person playing by the waves.

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@bookstodon May:
21: Vauhini Vara's The Immortal King Rao, in which Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are preempted by the Coconut corporation, and the world still goes to hell.

8: Parismita Singh's excellent short story collection Peace Has Come, telling stories of life under ceasfire and curfew and not-quite-peace.

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