Books and comics read in September 2020
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usuallyhatsMedar - SR Manssen
A Morbid Taste for Bones - Ellis Peters
We All Fall - Helen Vivienne Fletcher
Women & Power: A Manifesto - Mary Beard
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, And Other Lessons From the Crematorium - Caitlin Doughty
Jade War - Fonda Lee
A Killing Frost - Seanan McGuire
Black Panther: Avengers of the New World, Part One
The Memory of Souls - Jenn Lyons
Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
Chosen Spirits - Samit Basu
The Frost Fair Affair - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Hexarchate Stories - Yoon Ha Lee
Not much to say this month, probably because all except a couple of these were solid four star reads, often new entries in series/trilogies I'm already enjoying, so I didn't feel the need to yell about them, and the ones I didn't like didn't annoy me enough to yell about in the other direction.
While I'm here, though, I do want to mention how much I'm enjoying Jenn Lyons' Chorus of Dragons series. It's high fantasy, with a fondness for poking at and complicating the tropes it's using, and with some great characters. It's also increasingly queer, and although I'm not completely into the different gender systems in use in the different societies, I really like that there are different systems. Also there's a fun nested narrative thing going on which, in practice, means they are full of pedantic and/or snarky footnotes, good times good times.
Didn't finish: Doctor Who: The Left Handed Hummingbird - Kate Orman
So this is a book by a white person involving Aztec mythology, and within the admittedly small amount I read it repeatedly described the one brown character with epithets relating to his race rather than using his actual name. Given Kate Orman's history I didn't feel inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt, so I stopped reading it. Part of me doesn't entirely believe that "you don't have to finish it if you're not enjoying it" applies to Doctor Who books, but I'm trying to make myself remember that it does.
A Morbid Taste for Bones - Ellis Peters
We All Fall - Helen Vivienne Fletcher
Women & Power: A Manifesto - Mary Beard
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, And Other Lessons From the Crematorium - Caitlin Doughty
Jade War - Fonda Lee
A Killing Frost - Seanan McGuire
Black Panther: Avengers of the New World, Part One
The Memory of Souls - Jenn Lyons
Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
Chosen Spirits - Samit Basu
The Frost Fair Affair - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Hexarchate Stories - Yoon Ha Lee
Not much to say this month, probably because all except a couple of these were solid four star reads, often new entries in series/trilogies I'm already enjoying, so I didn't feel the need to yell about them, and the ones I didn't like didn't annoy me enough to yell about in the other direction.
While I'm here, though, I do want to mention how much I'm enjoying Jenn Lyons' Chorus of Dragons series. It's high fantasy, with a fondness for poking at and complicating the tropes it's using, and with some great characters. It's also increasingly queer, and although I'm not completely into the different gender systems in use in the different societies, I really like that there are different systems. Also there's a fun nested narrative thing going on which, in practice, means they are full of pedantic and/or snarky footnotes, good times good times.
Didn't finish: Doctor Who: The Left Handed Hummingbird - Kate Orman
So this is a book by a white person involving Aztec mythology, and within the admittedly small amount I read it repeatedly described the one brown character with epithets relating to his race rather than using his actual name. Given Kate Orman's history I didn't feel inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt, so I stopped reading it. Part of me doesn't entirely believe that "you don't have to finish it if you're not enjoying it" applies to Doctor Who books, but I'm trying to make myself remember that it does.