The water dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I haven’t read a great many books set in the “old south”. Many years ago I did read Gone with the wind. I’m sure I must...
3 February 2020
White women LOL by Curtis Sittenfeld
Read it online at The Oprah Magazine A short story showing that racism is a whole lot more complicated than your stance on white supremacists. I...
7 January 2020
The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut ; 1 I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about Mary Robinette Kowal, but the only thing by her I’ve ever read is...
31 July 2019
Nought forever by Malorie Blackman
A long time ago I read the first three books in the Noughts and Crosses series by Blackman, and really, really enjoyed them. But for some...
2 April 2019
The scandal by Fredrik Backman
also published as Beartown I was going to say that I recently read Backman’s breakout novel A man called Over, but then I checked the blog...
10 October 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
If you want to read a book that’ll really show how horrific people can be to one another then this is it. It tells the story...
7 August 2018
Welcome to your authentic Indian experience by Rebecca Roanhorse
Published in Apex Magazine, August 2017 This is one of those short stories that I just didn’t gel with, I think I needed it to be...
15 July 2018
from Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
How many harmless young black men have been injured or killed in modern cities in white countries this year, for the crime of exciting someone else’s...
30 December 2017
Detroit dir. by Kathryn Bigelow
Wow. This is such a great film. I mean, it is so intense and gripping that I never once wanted to look away. It tells the...
18 September 2017
Hidden figures [based on the book by] by Margot Lee Shetterly dir. by Theodore Melfi
Oh, I really enjoyed this film. So much more than I thought I would. I mean a story based on maths doesn’t sound all that entertaining....
21 February 2017
The hateful eight dir. by Quentin Tarantino
Wyoming, just after the US civil war, and bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is bringing in his prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). He is...
10 January 2016
God help the Child by Toni Morrison
When Lula Ann is born her mother is horrified by how dark she is. Sweetness is light skinned. So is her husband. The baby becomes a...
20 December 2015