2018: books, graphic novels, etc

In progress: Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

* rereads

Basically I read a ton of N. K. Jemisin, a bunch of LGBT graphic and YA novels, and and branched out to other well-reviewed contemporary sci-fi and fantasy hoping to find something as good as The Broken Earth trilogy with disappointing results. Also towards the end of the year read pretty random things based on recommendations.

Goddammit, I just realised that on the season 5 radio mission it said I cleared all 32 clips. So I deleted it and re-downloaded it... And now there's 88 clips. So I re-ran several for no reason cuz I assume I'll have to do it again now, and I'm almost done season 5 finally.

At least we can tell how many clips there are now, which is a huge blessing.

A long time ago, a friend's boyfriend (now husband!) recommended anything by Cory Doctorow when we were discussing sci-fi. I never got around to reading him until I spotted a copy of Walkaway at the library last week. I'm 70 pages in, having a good/surreal time so far. Just checked Goodreads out of curiosity and reviews are surprisingly mixed for a book that's full of interesting ideas - people complain that it seems "preachy," but that part is one of the more "real" aspects to me. Or maybe not real - but, something that speaks to me, as someone who also is wary of the direction of society and capitalism? It's not very far off from how left-wing grad students talk at parties.

Also, this book made a few suspicious references but didn't confirm until page 23 that it takes in my hometown of Toronto, which I love. I thought it was a mix of real and fake references but turns out I've just straight up not heard of the one I assumed was made up (Fran's).

Final note - the book does not explain anything (which is fine), but it also makes up words based on slang or expressions, which is an interesting experience as a bunch of them have just flown over my head. Eh.