Reading Wednesday

Just finished: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor. I guess, given the author, I shouldn't be surprised by how much I liked this one, but I really love this one! Even though it had a bunch of YA fantasy tropes that I generally dislike. It's mainly that her worldbuilding is so fucking cool that as I was reading it, I genuinely felt that the book was infused with literal magic. There's a depth to the world that feels real and grounded in the way that most writing for a younger demographic does not.

Currently reading: At work, I'm still on The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich. Not much more to add to what I said last week, but it's a well-written historical fiction with a slow, meandering plot, and uses a child's POV to paint a vivid picture of a culture under attack.

At home, I've started Beneath the Starlit Sea by Nicole Bea. Full disclosure, this is an ARC from a friend of mine, and I'm accordingly predisposed to loving it. But it also has a sorceress with fox familiars so I'd be into it regardless. It's a romantic fantasy about the aforementioned sorceress, pressed into service to a king in order to solve a series of murders at the hands of a sea creature. The prose and imagery are as lovely as the cover (seriously, how gorgeous is that cover?).

in case you missed it

 While everyone is quite distracted with the terrorist assaults on Ottawa and border blockades, the War Measures Act Emergency Act, and the surrender of most governments to the aforementioned terrorists/covid, the Ford Regime went and stealthily announced that they would be privatizing health care. There are some complexities to it but if you read my blog, you know what this government is after, and that's enriching their cronies at the expense of the citizenry. This opens the door for American-style healthcare where if you're rich, you've got access, and if you're anyone else, you can just fuckin' die.

While we're on the topic of things that everyone in this cursed so-called country should be freaking out about, Keeseekoose First Nation discovered another 54 unmarked graves of children, and I have seen barely a headline about it.