Recs Post!
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50books_pocIt's been a long, long time since we've done a recs post. Some of you have been asking for recs as we've gone along (and please continue to do so!), but just in case anyone has been hesitant to start a post of their own, please feel free to use this one. :-)
But first...
Got a rec? Need a rec? Is there any particular thing that you've been looking for that you haven't been able to find? Ask in the comments!
But first...
- Tehelka, an Indian newsweekly, did a special Pulp and Noir short fiction issue a little while back.
- Did you know that Expanded Horizons ("speculative fiction for the rest of us") has an authors of color tag?
- Over at Tumblr, WildUnicornHerd has a roundup of Ted Chiang's works, with links for what is available for free online.
- Unusualmusic at Angry Black Woman is asking for recs for technology-heavy SF books by POC authors -- go forth and recommend!
She's also got some links to news about Nnedi Okorafor and Zadie Smith, just in case you want to know such things. ;-)
Got a rec? Need a rec? Is there any particular thing that you've been looking for that you haven't been able to find? Ask in the comments!
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Date: 2011-02-28 09:03 pm (UTC)As for giving them - I just read I am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev and I liked it a lot.
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Date: 2011-02-28 09:46 pm (UTC)And apparently the Stoney-Nakoda Nation wrote the foreword for Lietfoot's (Cherokee) The Medicine of Prayer. Which may not have been quite what you were looking for, but technically counts as "anything" by a "Stoney Nakoda writer."
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Date: 2011-03-03 04:31 pm (UTC)Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages.
Joseph A. Massad, Desiring Arabs.
And I'm gonna guess you already know about Sabina England, but in case: Sabina England, and Sabina England's short plays.
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Date: 2011-02-28 09:54 pm (UTC)I'd appreciate any recommendations. And yes, I need to get to Neil Tyson DeGrasse. I've seen him speak and know he's awesome, but I haven't read any of his books yet.
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Date: 2011-03-01 12:39 am (UTC)I also just read Anita Diamant's Day After Night. It takes place in a DP (displaced persons) camp after WWII. I've always been fuzzy on what happened to European Jewish folks after liberation from the concentration camps, and this was a well-written fictionalization of some of those events, piquing my curiosity and encouraging me to seek more information. It had strong, complicated female characters and really sucked me in - I devoured it in less than 48 hours.
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Date: 2011-03-01 03:47 pm (UTC)There's more discussion here.
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Date: 2011-03-01 10:57 pm (UTC)There's only eight posts tagged "jewish", I see. If you want, I can ping Oyceter to see what she was thinking for those tags? We can disambiguate them here, even if we're not ready to do it on delicious yet.
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Date: 2011-03-01 04:26 am (UTC)Also found today: this list of "additional key texts" (http://www.macquariepenanthology.com.au/abor-keytexts.html") that are associated with the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. I've just put "The Best Little Knitter in the West" on reserve, because that's got to be by Sermsah from "So You Think You Can Dance?" Australia. Or, you know, someone with the same name...
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Date: 2011-03-01 08:37 am (UTC)I have read and really liked Marjorie M. Liu.
I have read and kind of liked Karen Harbaugh, Pearl Cleage, Sherry Thomas, and Nalini Singh.
I have read and bounced off of Beverly Jenkins, Jade Lee
I have not yet read but mean to read Butterfly Swords.
I am not a big fan of contemporaries that do a lot of brand-name dropping (couldn't get through Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez), or ones with a lot of suspense plots in which the man is very macho and manly, and I tend to like things in which there's some play with romance gender role tropes. I know I'm missing a ton of stuff in African-Am romance, but would really appreciate recs from people in the comm, since my tastes tend to... not really coincide with the tastes of a lot of people at romance review sites.
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Date: 2011-03-04 07:06 pm (UTC)How about Red Azalea by Anchee Min?
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Date: 2011-03-05 07:00 pm (UTC)Also our tastes seem to be pretty similar, would you mind if I friended you?
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Date: 2011-03-03 05:27 pm (UTC)COLOR ME FLO by Flo Kennedy
A Daughter of Isis by Nawal El Saadawi
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Date: 2011-03-03 04:18 pm (UTC)500 Years of Chicana Women's History (Betita Mart).
Iran Awakening, by Muslim and Iranian feminist (and Nobel Prize winner!), Shirin Ebadi.
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, by Mary Seacole, a Jamaican woman who was a nurse in the Crimean War. (Some will be familiar with her from this Kate Beaton comic.)
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