Long and oddly specific chapter titles yay or nay?
aslongasitsfiction asked:
My book group and I would love to read the style of your books for our Halloween-themed reading assignment next month. However, we are committed to only reading books by POC Women this year - any suggestions???
neil-gaiman answered:
How cool. Well, let’s suggest a few:
Nnedi Okorafor is wonderful. Her book Who Fears Death is stunning.
Nalo Hopkinson is one of my favourite authors. Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, Skin Folk (short stories), The Salt Roads and other remarkable books are out there waiting for you. (Nalo was also a huge support for me when I wrote Anansi Boys, reading it, guiding, and working with me on the Caribbean dialogue.)
N.K. Jemisen is a powerful and brilliant author. Her new novel, The City We Became, is a glorious fantasy about the personifications of cities, and Lovecraftian abominations with Lovecraftian tendencies.
That’s a start. There are many other excellent writers out there waiting for you, like Octavia Butler and Tananarive Due. Go and explore.
As a self-proclaimed feminist parent, I strive to raise my child—and those in my village—guided by the feminist ideals of respect, equality, and social justice. I believe feminist parenting is more than gender diversity, body image, autonomy, and sexualization (all important issues, no doubt).
My core parenting beliefs include raising a child with respect for all people, and by extension, with respect for diversity. My hope is that, by engendering empathy for all human beings, she learns that all of us should be able to live a life free from violence, discrimination, and a lack of agency, and works towards this universal liberation.
here’s a list of books that have lgbtqa main characters that weren’t killed for shock value :)))) (bc we’ve all been disappointed enough this year)
* = adult or new adult lit
just thought i’d add some…
I don’t understand why books have shifted from having summaries on the back of the covers to having one-line reviews.
Seriously though. I want to know what the book is about. Not that someone from the Evening Standard thinks it’s a masterpiece.
I have been waiting for this post my whole life.
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