2024 Book Log

[sabotabby]

Fiction:

1. Querelle de Roberval, Kevin Lambert
2. Read and Then Burn This, Ryszard Merey
3. And the Stars Will Sing, Michelle Patricia Browne
4. The Stolen, Michelle Patricia Browne
5. The Meaning Wars, Michelle Patricia Browne
6. Poe's Outlaws, Michelle Patricia Browne
7. A Jade's Trick, Michelle Patricia Browne
8. Crow Winter, Karen McBride
9. The Saint Of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
10. Archangel Protocol, Lyda Morehouse
11. Mammoths At the Gates, Nghi Vo
12. The School That Ate Children, Sara General
13. The Night Garden, Nicole Bea
14. Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
15. To Shape a Dragon's Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose
16. Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee
17. Beyond the Hallowed Sky, Ken MacLeod
18. North Continent Ribbon, Ursula Whitcher
19. Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
20. Welcome To Boy.net, Lyda Morehouse
21. Those Who Run In the Sky, Aviaq Johnston
22. Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt
23. Love/Aggression, June Martin
24. Guardian: Zhen Hun Vol. 2, priest
25. Pirate Utopia, Bruce Sterling
26. City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky
27. Herald Petrel, Strange Seawolf
28. Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera
29. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, Molly McGhee
30. The Tin Men, Michael Frayn
31. Antifa Splatterpunk, Eric Raglin (ed.)
32. Bird Song, Clara Hume
33. House of Open Wounds, Adrian Tchaikovsky
34. The Downloaded, Robert J. Sawyer
35. MOBY FUCKIN DICK MFers by the GOAT Herman Melville yee haw!!!
36. Dune, Frank Herbert
37. Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters, Sarena Ulibarri (ed.)
38. The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, Bianca Marais 
39. Blackheart Man, Nalo Hopkinson
40. Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris
41. Countess, Suzan Palumbo
42. Breaking Through: A Punk Anthology, Jessica Gunn (ed.)
43. Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic, Sophus Helle
44. Cold Blooded, Rohan O'Duill
45. The Lost Tarot, Sarah Henstra
46. Gyre, Dale Stromberg
 
Non-Fiction:

1. Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg, David Fernbach (Translator)
2. The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada, Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman and Bronwen Tucker
3. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment, Risa Dickens and Amy Torok
4. Doppelgänger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein
5. Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality, Graham Jones
6. Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Metis Plant Use, Christi Belcourt
7. Bullies, Bastards and Bitches: How to Write the Bad Guys of Fiction, Jessica Page Morrell
8. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance, Jesse Wente
9. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll
10. Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era, Tomas Rothaus
11. The Apocalypse Will Not Be Colonized: Crisis, Monsters, and Futurism in Recent Indigenous Narratives, Tiffany Morris
12. Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada, Craig Jennex and Nisha Eswaran
13. When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and Sean Carleton.

Poetry:

1. Underhill Transit Services, Shirley Meier
2. Enkidu Is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está: An Origin Myth of Grief / Un mito de origen de la pesadumbre, Tucker Lieberman
3. The Untranslatable I, Roxanna Bennett
4. IGoli EGoli, Salimah Valiani

Books With Pictures In 'Em

1. The Trail of Nenaboozhoo: and Other Creation Stories, Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch*
2. Red Power: A Graphic Novel, Brian Wright-McLeod



* I'm not sure where to put this, as creation stories feel like they shouldn't fall under either fiction or non-fiction, but hey, the book has pictures in it by two brilliant artists so it's going to go here.

Comments

[greylock]

Filled with thinky thoughts! (I suspect this is a 'pinned post' as they say, but, you know....)

[sabotabby]

I have tried to pin these in the past, but DW's pinning does not do the thing that I want it to do. So I just keep updating the dates.

[greylock]

Ah.
Depending on what you want to do:
I set mine for the future (Dec 31 of the year).
Don't click "Don't show on Reading Page" (IIRC on LJ this caused problems
Mark as private (doubt this matters).

Not sure if that's helpful, but I have to check every year to see if it works.

[sabotabby]

Well, I definitely don't want it private! In the past I've had some great discussions just on the list. I don't know whether it pops up in people's feeds or not, but this has so far been the easiest way to keep track for me.

[greylock]

In that case, I guess I doubt it will do what you want.
But if you set the date ahead.... it might?
DW cuts off at X posts in Y days, so I don't know how it will work, but when I click on my page/feed/etc it sits there all year.

[sabotabby]

I could, or I could just keep doing what I'm doing.

[greylock]

You could.
But why do that when you could do what I confidently suggest? :P

[dissectionist]

Shirley, man. I’ve been horseback riding with her and she is like fifty times more gutsy than me. She embraces the dangers of life in a way that few of us have the courage to do.

[sabotabby]

Do you know about her arm-breaking incident??? That woman is hardcore.

[dissectionist]

That incident is why all our mutual friends kept insisting we should get to know each other. It’s kind of hilarious because if there’s a binary of equestrians, “broke arm doing risky equestrian stuff and got back to it ASAP” is the polar opposite to my “almost got thrown once while cantering and have tried to avoid it ever since”, LOL. But we did have a great time hanging out!

[sabotabby]

I can't help telling everyone I know this story because (now that she's okay) it is hands-down one of the funniest/most badass things that has ever happened to anyone I know. I am not at all surprised that you two got along.

[rachelmanija]

What is this story?

[sabotabby]

Ah, okay. So I was supposed to be gaming with Shirley, and we got word that she couldn't make it because she was in the hospital. Everyone kind of freaked but we were quickly assured that she was okay (phew), horseback riding accident, well, that's not surprising, she is an avid rider. Only for the details to slowly emerge...

1) She fell off a horse
2) She was riding hands-free at the time
3) She was doing fucking archery on a horse
4) And took a turn too sharply and was tossed off the horse into a haystack, breaking her arm in three places.

Obviously this is the most badass thing to ever happen to anyone I know, and she was a superstar at the hospital with all of the nurses clamouring to visit "the horseback archery lady." It was an awful recovery but the good news is that she gets to brag about that story for the rest of her life.

[rachelmanija]

OMFG. That is a great story.

[sabotabby]

She's cool as hell. There's a reason why when her name comes up everyone gets a big grin and is like, "oh, YOU know Shirley too???"

[blogcutter]

I didn't know she was an equestrian or even that she wrote poetry - I only knew of her as a SF/Fantasy writer and one-time host of AndOrCon (assuming it's the same Shirley Meier)

[sabotabby]

Definitely the same person. She does a lot.

[ioplokon]

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[sabotabby]

Enabler!

(And now I am reading another French book in translation, go figure.)

[ioplokon]

Please write to the government of Québec about my services towards frenchifying Anglo Canda so they let me in :p

[sabotabby]

You kid but I would.

[blogcutter]

The School That Ate Children?? Definitely sounds intriguing!

[sabotabby]

It's middle grade but it's very compelling middle grade. It's my most-stolen book.