Own voices

Engaging First Book of a Trilogy

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

July 22, 2019 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo: Own Voices Written by Eden Robinson, an Aboriginal Canadian Author of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations, I though Son of a Trickster would definitely fit the Own Voices Bingo square as it is a coming-of-age novel centered on an Aboriginal teenager in Kitimat, British Columbia, which leans solidly into some of the Haisla culture and beliefs, particularly those surrounding the trickster figure, Wee’jit. Our focus in this novel is a teenager Jared as he navigates the usual teenage social scene and dramas, […]

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

July 12, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

This is my Bingo choice for Own Voices and it’s simultaneously a great one and a terrible one in that it is a fictional book written by a transgender lesbian author about the struggles of changing one’s body to reflect a changing understanding of ones self, and the love the protagonist has for her same-sex roommate. Perfect, right? The body she’s changing into is a non-human one, not because she has never felt at home with herself, but because their telepathic hormonal communication works […]

You can’t stop mourning everything all the time.

Magical Negro by Morgan Parker

July 1, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – Own Voices The font and cover design of the front of this book is stunning and alluring, but also made me a little self-conscious to be reading this book out in public. This is an absolutely wonderful collection of poems that feels like a long essay on the visceral experiences contained within. While I am not against reading polemics on race in America, one thing that I have had some frustration with in the last first years is kind of perfectly correct, but […]

I read this for the Read Harder Challenge, but I would have read it anyway.

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

June 20, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

So I wrote in my initial review of this book: “Something about the climax of this book didn’t work perfectly for me, will try to suss out why later, but the rest of this was lovely. Really glad I read it. You know a book is good when you’re so caught up in it you don’t notice you’re reaching the last pages, and then it’s over and you’re sad.” It’s been a little too long since I finished this now, and I can’t really remember […]

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