I hope all you Game of Thrones fans are doing okay! Based on brief glances at Twitter last night, things were not looking too good vis-a-vis y’all enjoying the end of y’all’s show. I peaced out of a while ago and have just been consuming it via recaps to check that the Stark women were hanging in there. Let’s distract ourselves by talking about what we’ve been reading! “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?” is hosted by Kathryn from Book Date.
What I Read Last Week:
A bunch of stuff! Several of my books were threatening to fall due at the library, so I had to zip through them very quickly and beat the due dates. I read My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite, which I’ll post about later in the week. I also read The Night Tiger, by Yangsze Choo, which was a wonderful fairy-tale-feeling novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, and Bina Shah’s feminist dystopia Before She Sleeps, which predictably did not mention trans people at all, but nevertheless felt like a fresh take on a type of story I’ve seen a dozen times.
What I Am Reading Now:
Genius: Cartel. Discovering that there was more to this graphic novel, which ran in 2014 and blew my mind with its daring storytelling (I DO NOT SAY THAT LIGHTLY), made me the happiest I’ve been at the library in a while (I don’t say that lightly either). The first volume is about a girl who decides that her corner of Los Angeles is going to secede from the US. It fucking rules. This volume takes fewer risks in the sense of, like, it’s not about gang members killing cops while we root for them? But it’s still a great showcase for this character, I loved the art, I loved the symbolism, I’m about it.
Up Next:
I am not sure! I have a bunch of super great options to consider, most of them YA. Meghan Spooner’s Sherwood is supposed to be really good, even though I don’t tend to like Robin Hood stories. A Curse So Dark and Lonely, by Bridget Kimmerer, is a Beauty and the Beast retelling that likewise promises to be feminist and awesome. The Princess and the Fangirl, by Ash Poston, is a Prince and the Pauper-genre story but with fandom. HELP ME CHOOSE.
What are you reading?