April HighlightsApril was a messy, busy month that sent me into many spirals of both anxiety and joy
April HighlightsApril was a messy, busy month that sent me into many spirals of both anxiety and joy. I celebrate my 28th birthday, I got out of the house, I celebrated Passover with my grandmother and stole some time at the beach and in the sun. And I read so, so many wonderful books.I read emotional historical fiction and sci fi—in some ways, two sides of the same coin—from The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian tr. Bruce Humes, A Strange Woman by Leylâ Erbil tr. Menemencioglu & Spangler, and Red Sorghum by Mo Yan tr. Howard Goldblatt, to The Way Spring Arrives: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators and Palestine+100 edited by Basma Ghalayini. And then of course there was the twisty fiction, from surrealist Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn to Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch.This month also had a nonfiction bent to it. I channeled frustration into the nonfiction reads on my shelf: No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis edited by Lucy Diavolo, Body Work by Melissa Febos, Why Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán tr. Sophie Hughes, and technically not The Invisible Kingdom, which was one of my favorite books of March, but just pretend I didn’t accidentally include it in this photo! It’s a great book, anyway. -- source link
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