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Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
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Content Warnings
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Iconic, unstoppable, baffling, unlike anything else in fantasy
From my second reading: even better! I could make a lot more sense of where things were situated temporally and I simply love how non-Western sexualities and approaches to human/nature divide appear in the very way that the book is written. I'm so excited to read Moon Witch Spider King.
From my second reading: even better! I could make a lot more sense of where things were situated temporally and I simply love how non-Western sexualities and approaches to human/nature divide appear in the very way that the book is written. I'm so excited to read Moon Witch Spider King.
Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
5.0
Octavia Butler is one of the most observant, most prescient, most visionary author we've ever had, better than your fave
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Still thinking about this constantly, a benchmark in science fiction and queer theory and literary theory that people aren't talking about enough anymore
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
5.0
Very strange to read this alongside Dhalgren, birth and death of cities from masculine and feminine perspectives
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Brilliant, much smarter than me, a literary archive built on stories
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
4.5
This is a little bit trans if you think about it no I won't be elaborating
Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
Hallucinatory and baffling, I absolutely love it and would be very interested in seeing this read alongside Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
funny
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Not enough people who talk about Thomas Pynchon are also talking about Ishmael Reed this novel is bonkers and continually relevant for understanding race and art in the modern day