My Thoughts All Boys Aren’t Blue is a powerful memoir about one young man’s reckoning with his identity as a queer black man. The book explores the intersection of race and sexuality and the difficulty of finding one’s identity in a society that systematically oppresses people that fall outside of what is considered “normal.” It …
Summer Frost
My Thoughts I slept on this novella and I am sorry for it because Summer Frost is the best story in the entire Forward Collection. I always really enjoy stories about artificial intelligence and robots, it is one of those topics in science fiction that veers into a dangerous uncanny valley once the question of …
Cinders
Cinders Publisher: MoaCube Developer: MoaCube Series: Toge Productions Release Date: June 20, 2012 Genres: Visual Novel Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One Description: Cinders is a witty young woman living with an overbearing stepmother and her two daughters as if she was reenacting a certain well-known fairy tale. But unlike its protagonist, Cinders …
These Deathless Bones
My Thoughts Straight to the point and packs a punch, These Deathless Bones is a strong short story that unravels the evil stepmother trope from fairytale fiction. The Witch Bride is a vengeful femme fatale, the second wife of a king, a fearsome witch that scares the common people. She finds herself at odds with …
2020 Books & Reading Stats
I know that I am late to the party on posting my 2020 stats, it hadn’t occurred to me that creating one of these might be fun until this past weekend and I wanted to share my reading year. 2020 was a tumultuous year both in my personal and professional life; I finished my master’s …
The Contractors
My Thoughts Social media has become a monolith of big business, billions of people around the world use social media platforms daily generating unfathomably amounts of wealth from ad revenue and data mining. There are billions of posts every day, and some of the most brutal, most hateful content can be shared to a worldwide …