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Akata Witch

Read Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing–she is a free agent with latent magical power. Soon she’s part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?

The last time I’ve loved a similar book series so much was Percy Jackson, and that was almost 10 years ago. Akata Witch is well-written, funny and dark when needed. Action scenes are scarce, and well-written; things focus on tradition and on carefully-crafted actions, which I love.

Le sexisme, une affaire d’hommes

Read Le sexisme, une affaire d’hommes by Valérie Rey-Robert

« On ne naît pas homme, on le devient. »
C’est en partant de ce postulat que Valérie Rey-Robert analyse la construction du genre. Selon elle, le principal problème des violences faites aux femmes est la virilité. Elle nous invite à nous questionner sur la socialisation des garçons et des filles, sur la masculinité et sa violence inhérente, sur nos stéréotypes de genre.
Il appartient de déviriliser nos sociétés, pour que les hommes cessent de tuer leurs compagnes et leurs enfants, qu’ils cessent de se tuer entre eux, qu’ils cessent de s’automutiler. Ceci ne pourra passer que par un grand travail de prise de conscience et d’éducation.
Une problématique qui nous engage toutes et tous.

A great guide to most of the arguments against modern Western feminism and what to answer to each of them, with loads of academic sources and concrete numbers to support the reflection.

Midnight Sun

Read Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella’s side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward’s version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.

The yay: The writing style is nice to read Jasper! Alice! Emmett! Reading the thoughts and learning to understand all the cool secondary characters! Their backstory! Learning a bit more about Edward makes him slightly less annoying overall That one paragraph about how vampires don’t pee The bleh: Edward keeps whining about how he’d like…

SLAY

Read SLAY by Brittney Morris

By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the “downfall of the Black man.”
But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for “anti-white discrimination.”
Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?

I may or may not have started this book at 10pm « just to read a little before I go to sleep » and finished it in the same sitting a few hours later. It was worth it.