2025 posts tagged books

My tenth through thirteenth reads for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025.

My eighth read (chronologically) for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025, Talia Hibbert's legendary (?) romance novel.

My seventh read (chronologically) for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025, Judith Butler's riposte to the global attacks on gender rights.

My ninth read (chronologically) for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025, Nicola Yoon's distressing novel about a Black utopia that isn't.

My fourth, fifth and sixth books for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025, none of which I felt strongly enough to write a lot about.

My third read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s history of the gains in Black civil rights during Reconstruction and their abrupt rollback during the subsequent period known as "Redemption."

My second read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025, Kaliane Bradley's debut novel.

My first read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2025, Scott Hawkins's debut novel. If you liked Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, you may like this... but you may not.

2023 posts tagged books

I read a thousand page book you bet your ass I'm gonna blog about it

2022 posts tagged books

My ninth read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo, Milan Kundera's combination soap opera / account of life under oppressive Communist rule.

My eighth read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo, Charles Yu's disorienting half-screenplay, half-novel satire of Asian stereotypes.

My sixth read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo, Carmen Maria Machado's combination memoir and horror story.

My fourth read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo, a cute, lightweight gay romance.

My third read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo, John Allison's comic about three British young women navigating college life.

My second read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo, Ta-Nehisi Coates's debut novel.

I'm doing Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo again, after missing it for a couple years. My first book was Janelle Monáe's short story collection.

2021 posts tagged books

Neal Stephenson's latest, while reasonably enjoyable on a surface level, is more unsatisfying the more you think about it.

2019 posts tagged books

Thoughts on The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's vital pair of essays about race in America.

Thoughts on No One Will See Me Cry, Cristina Rivera-Garza's novel about the convoluted lives of some tragic Mexicans.

Thoughts on Sisters, Lily Tuck's short novel which is not about sisters.

Thoughts on My Age of Anxiety, Scott Stossel's deep dive into the world of debilitating anxiety.

Thoughts on Rachel Pollack's collection of stories and essays, including the title story The Beatrix Gates.

Thoughts on Hybrid Child, the first book I read for Seattle Public Library's Book Bingo 2019.