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 …
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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 …
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 …
The Humbling of a Pretty Girl
One of the biggest news stories right now is on Lauren Scruggs, a twenty-three year old US woman who suffered …
Adding some more books to the pile of enormity
I’m speeding up again a little on the 2011 Reading List of Enormity. See my update for April and my …
How White Writers Should Address Racism
Some white writers seem to think that the only way to write an anti-racist work is to write a racial …
Linksplosion! Four Aussies and a Canadian edition
O.L.S.I.O.H.T.P. (Obvious Lesbian Subtext in Ostensibly Heterosexual Television Programming) by Maeve reminded me a bit of my Subtext revisited. The …
The latest in Chally’s reading adventures!
How am I going with the 2011 Reading List of Enormity? To be honest, I’ve not progressed hugely far since …
