Reading Wednesday
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yuuagoJust Finished: Take Us to Your Chief by Drew Hayden Taylor. A collection of science fiction short stories from a First Nations perspective. Aliens, time travel, superheroes, artificial intelligence, futuristic technology and government coverups... This collection has a little bit of everything, and it's clear that the author really loves the genre. I definitely recommend giving it a go if this is your kind of thing.
Reading Next: Current library haul is as follows -
+ Kalyna by Pam Clark. A novel about Ukrainian immigrants in Canada around WWI. Deals with the Ukrainian internment camps. Probably going to be a depressing read, but I'm very interested.
+ Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin. Title is self-explanatory, I think. Almost passed this one up because if I'm going to read depressing LGBTQ history, I usually want it to be Canadian. But something about this one grabbed me - I think it's because it looks at these acts of violence specifically with regard to the way they were circulated as true crime stories, and what effect that had on the gay community and the impressions people formed of these men.
+ Whose waves these are by Amanda Dykes. Novel about grief post-WWII. "Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving". Sounds like it might be hard for this one to hit exactly the right note, but I'm willing to find out.
+ The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag. Murder mystery set in Stockholm in 1793. This sounds like it could be exactly my thing. I love crime novels in historical settings! (If I like it, maybe I will write some kind of Anno 1790 crossover, haha...)
+ The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore. About the use of radium to paint clock faces in the early 20th century, and the effect that had on the young women who handled this dangerous material. I've been meaning to read this one for a while now.
Reading Next: Current library haul is as follows -
+ Kalyna by Pam Clark. A novel about Ukrainian immigrants in Canada around WWI. Deals with the Ukrainian internment camps. Probably going to be a depressing read, but I'm very interested.
+ Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin. Title is self-explanatory, I think. Almost passed this one up because if I'm going to read depressing LGBTQ history, I usually want it to be Canadian. But something about this one grabbed me - I think it's because it looks at these acts of violence specifically with regard to the way they were circulated as true crime stories, and what effect that had on the gay community and the impressions people formed of these men.
+ Whose waves these are by Amanda Dykes. Novel about grief post-WWII. "Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving". Sounds like it might be hard for this one to hit exactly the right note, but I'm willing to find out.
+ The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag. Murder mystery set in Stockholm in 1793. This sounds like it could be exactly my thing. I love crime novels in historical settings! (If I like it, maybe I will write some kind of Anno 1790 crossover, haha...)
+ The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore. About the use of radium to paint clock faces in the early 20th century, and the effect that had on the young women who handled this dangerous material. I've been meaning to read this one for a while now.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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