Comments on: Let’s Hope August Is Better: A Links Round-Up

By: Jodie

Jodie — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 11:16:00 +0000

The lists!!!

By: Stefanie@SoManyBooks

Stefanie@SoManyBooks — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:05:00 +0000

Comics and book lists! Thank you for demolishing any shred of reading plan I may have had left this year.

By: Lory@Emerald City Book Review

Lory@Emerald City Book Review — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 05:01:00 +0000

ooh, enormous book lists…love those.

By: Read Diverse Books

Read Diverse Books — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:45:00 +0000

I read Rumaan Alam’s piece and something about it bothered me, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Perhaps it was his perpetuation of the myth of “The Only One” as if there really can’t be more than one great writer in America who is Indian, or African-American, or Jamaican. He probably doesn’t think so, but he kept repeating the phrase over and over.
I also agree that individual books cannot be diverse. I wrote a whole blog post about this lol

By: Shannon @ River City Reading

Shannon @ River City Reading — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:23:00 +0000

Oh, thank you for the article on Amber Galloway Gallego!! I hadn’t seen that and I love it. I also love footnote 2.

By: teresareads

teresareads — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:49:00 +0000

I really, really would like to know how much of the text of Kim’s book changed when the decision was made to market it as a memoir. Did it read like a memoir to me because that’s what the cover said, because it was edited to feel like a memoir, or because (whatever Kim’s intentions) it felt like a memoir all along? And, like you, I want to be more aware of these issues in the future when reading investigatory books by women. It’s a good thing to think about.

I share your pet peeve about the word diverse. But, even though I don’t like it, I’m still guilty of that usage because I can’t always think of a better way to say it.

By: JeanPing

JeanPing — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:53:00 +0000

I read Suki Kim’s article too, and I still feel skeevy about her methods. I didn’t notice at the time that it was being billed as a memoir, and that’s not cool.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:47:00 +0000

I feel so ineffectual with the deaths and politics going on right now. It’s so wrong and upsetting and I have all these angry feelings of injustice and I’m doing f-all about it. #privilagedwhiteproblems