So I had a long chatty post of my thoughts on this, and they didn’t save, and I don’t know why. ‘Tis weird. So for now, let me say this. I am really glad that the Wakanda Forever challenge in #blackathon reminded me that I had this graphic novel on my Kindle Fire* yet had never read it.** Because I have now discovered that I actually loved the experience of reading it this way, despite never having been able to get into...

  Geekerella by Ashley Poston “I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I’m possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.” “It’s also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone’s cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.”  “We might all be different – we may ship different things or be in different fandoms – but if I learned anything from...

Three out of four of these books fit the February #DiverseReads2017 Challenge which is more a relection of my interests than the challenge so far. I think the idea of this challenge is to stretch people, and so far it has simply corresponded to my reading desires and given me incentive to reach farther. All were great reads. I hope you find something you like here! I will need to actually work a little harder to choose a book for the March...

I’ve been a bit surprised to see how many of the recommended diverse SFF books I’ve already read, which becomes more obvious when I’m looking for something for this challenge. On the other hand it’s not all that surprising since one of the things I love about reading is the opportunity to ‘live’ another life, experience another world, and that includes the characters, not just the universe they are in. I need...