Book Review: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Emily Horner’s A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend (2010) is glorious. Cass Meyer, bicyclist, pacifist, Quaker, and high …
Category Archives: Reading
The Fifty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome to the fifty-sixth month of Down Under Feminists Carnival goodness. I am your host, Chally, and I am glad …
Quite a lot of books
Here are my favourites of what I’ve been reading since my last readerly update, which was in May! I’ve the …
Recent readings
I’ve not done a reading update in a while. Partly this is because I have been reading books for which …
Linksplosion!: How we relate edition
thought for the day: why are we still framing the conversation this way? by Anna at the feminist librarian: The …
Reworking classic fairytales and the many ways of enacting the feminine in feminist fiction
Just one example for today, but it’s a full one. It appears that in childhood I did not get so …
Linksplosion!: Creative (writing) edition
First a community and reading and crafting link: Everyday feminism and knitting by Deborah at A Bee of a Certain …
Two kinds of whiteness: reimagining white people in fantasy and science fiction
A pretty common trope in science fiction and fantasy is to have fictional races stand in for Earth ones. The …
Reimagining narratives that centre whiteness
This seems to be turning into a theme, so, previously on race and fiction: Writing Race, How to write yourself …
‘One still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed’
I recently read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. If you’re up for another work on racism and colonialism from …
What pieces of writing have been important in your life?
Lots have been important in mine. Below, to limit it, is fiction that shaped my internal geography in vital ways …
Race and the Non-White Reader
One will often hear that white people prefer to hear fellow white people talk about race because it’s less confrontational …
The end of the 2011 reading list of enormity
Lessons. I have learned many lessons this year. Reading for a goal kills a lot of the pleasure I take …
Linksplosion! Inverting thinking edition
Laura Woodhouse at The F-Word reports that universal free childcare in the UK would bring in more money from working …
Mapmaking for internal geographies
‘Lucjan was working on a series of maps, sized to fit, when folded, into the glovebox of a car. He …
