Bookwormish, 3rd quarter of 2021

In the spirit of doing things perhaps a little less comprehensively than I usually might, in order to have a hope of getting them done at all.....

VERY TOP BOOKS

Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey! and Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks and Scones by Ngozi Ukazu – OH MAN. I got sucked in at last. :D Being in fandom spaces, I'd long been peripherally aware of Check, Please! but I guess I'd sort of subconsciously pooh-poohed the concept (despite knowing next to nothing about it)? Hockey bros, but they're gay and fall in love? Sounds like a fannish fantasy... Well, it turns out, yes, it's perhaps a bit of a fantasy, but of the most AFFIRMING, HEARTWARMING, JUST-WANT-TO-SNUGGLE-THIS-BOOK-TO-MY-CHEST kind. Oh goodness. I read the whole series, and then I read it again. (And I've been reading fic for it ever since.)

The Street by Ann Petry – The rare case of a book that I went into knowing almost nothing about it, only that a friend had recommended it. And I'm glad, because the experience was powerful. Searing social commentary that manages to pass itself off as a thriller.

 

( lots more books! )

 

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