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Sally Strange

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Interests: climate, science, sci-fi, fantasy, LGBTQIA+, history, anarchism, anti-racism, labor politics

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Frantz Fanon: Wretched of the Earth (2001, Penguin Books)

The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book …

These reflections on violence have made us realize the frequent discrepancy between the cadres of the nationalist party and the masses, and the way they are out of step with each other. In any union or political organization there is a traditional gap between the masses who demand an immediate, unconditional improve-ment of their situation, and the cadres who, gauging the difficulties likely to be created by employers, put a restraint on their demands. Hence the oft-remarked tenacious discontent of the masses with regard to the cadres. After a day of demonstrations, while the cadres are celebrating victory, the masses well and truly get the feeling they have been betrayed. It is the repeated dem-onstrations for their rights and the repeated labor disputes that politicize the masses. A politically informed union official is someone who knows that a local dispute is not a crucial con-frontation between him and management. [...] The creation of nationalist parties in the colonized countries is contemporary with the birth of an intellectual and business elite.

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(...as a counter balance to the question of established representation...)

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Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

The time-travel project was the first time in history that any person had been brought out of their time and into their far future. In this sense, the predicament of the expats was unique. But the rhythms of loss and asylum, exodus and loneliness, roll like floods across human history. I'd seen it happen in my own life.

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Michel Nieva: Dengue Boy (2025, Serpent's Tail Limited) No rating

Close to Cronenberg and deeply indebted to Kafka, this gaucho-punk novel offers an explosive interpretation …

Another interesting book from my local library's expanding collection.

If you're someone who, like me, is constantly searching for new books to read, I urge you to sign up for your local library's newsletter. Mine divides it by subject so I get a bi-weekly list of new sci-fi and fantasy titles.

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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half (Hardcover, Riverhead Books)

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a …

I promise it's good

I went into this book knowing absolutely nothing about it besides that a friend had recommended it.

That worked so well for me, I hesitate to tell you anything besides:

it grabbed me pretty fast and then I hustled through and finished the book in two days.

I cried for these characters.

Strong recommend

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Linda Jaivin: The Shortest History of China (Paperback, The Experiment)

Journey across China’s epic history—through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance. And upcoming from …

The Shortest History of China

Content warning lewd; violence

started reading Blood Trials by N. E. Davenport (The Blood Gift Duology, #1)

N. E. Davenport: Blood Trials (2022, HarperCollins Publishers)

Blending fantasy and science fiction, N. E. Davenport's fast-paced, action-packed debut kicks off a duology …

This is kind of like a mash-up of Hunger Games, GI Jane, and Tananarive Due's African Immortals series (because of its obsession with blood). The protagonist is a little dumb and a lot violent, but you have to excuse her because she's Black and female and blessed with God-granted superpowers in a society that hates all three of these things. Also her grandfather, who raised her, recently died, and she just discovered that he was actually murdered. Plus, what with the superpowers that make her faster and stronger and quicker to heal than the average bear, if she weren't a little ignorant and slow to catch on, she would have zero weaknesses and there wouldn't be much of a story.

Ellis Peters, Edith Pargeter: The Rose Rent (AudiobookFormat, 2016, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks) No rating

Still good, although the narrator, or perhaps it's the fault of the recording, had a tinny, grating timbre.

One thing I really enjoy about these Brother Cadfael mysteries is that mostly the perpetrators don't go to jail. They get exiled or killed through their own machinations, or their crime had extenuating circumstances and Cadfael helps them get away with it.

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