50books_poc roundup

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I am still doing this! I got distracted by the holidays, which brought me many books, none of which qualified for the comm. (I thought one did, but it turned out the author's name deceived me.) Then I got stuck for a while on a book that was really hard. Now I'm going again.


11. Octavia Butler - Kindred (review)
A time travel story, one I liked a lot.

12. Helene Cooper - The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (review)
thimble_kiss recced me this one and I'm glad she did. It's a memoir of the Liberian coup of 1980.

13. Greg Sarris - Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (review)
Was stuck on this for weeks, not because I didn't like it, but because literary theory is hard when you have no background in it.

14. Ofelia Zepeda - A Papago Grammar (review)
Hey, atdelphi! It's a grammar of an American language written by a native speaker!

15. Jin Xing - Shanghai Tango (review)
Memoir of a Chinese ballerina who is trans. Wanted to like it, but didn't.