Book Chatter: Misc

[forestofglory]

I bought a copy of Ancillary Sword at the airport. I was very excited (it doesn't even officially come out until next week) but my traveling companions didn't get it. I doubt I will read it for a bit as I'm not having lot brain space of complex books, but I am enjoying the anticipation.

I think my list of books to-read published this year is getting longer not shorter. I've also been letting the short fiction pile up due to my brain being eaten by my thesis.

I just went a put in lots of holds for more books at the library, which is another lovely burst of anticipation.

I'm way behind on my goal to read 40 books by POC this year. (That would be 20% of 200 book, and I read 192 last year.) Goodreads says I'm at 28, but 10 of those are one Manga, so it is really 19. So I'm less than half way there and there are only 3 months left this year. So any recs? I'd especially like recs for middle-grade fiction and completed Manga.

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[davidgillon]

Not entire books, but I'm about three quarters of the way through Kaleidoscope, the anthology of YA SF, and there are some excellent shorts by PoC - I'm not sure how many of the authors actually are PoC, I'll have to do some research later, but I know that several certainly are.

[forestofglory]

I actually really want to read that!

I think my short fiction reading is a bit more racially diverse, but I'm not sure how to count it. Currently I only count anthologies if all of the authors are POC, and don't count stand alone works shorter than Novellas.