Review: Sacrifice by Cindy Pon
Sacrifice by Cindy Pon is the sequel to Serpentine and the final instalment of Skybright’s story. For those of you are new to this blog and/or don’t know me, Serpentine was the fantasy […]
Category Archives: Diverse
Review: Grace Beside Me by Sue McPherson
Life is not ordinary for Fuzzy Mac, but it should be. What could possibly be exciting about growing up with her Nan and Pop in a small country town? Rivalry, […]
Review: Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Vol. 1
From the foreword to Moonshot, by editor Hope Nicholson: MOONSHOT is a project that is a thrilling new collection that showcases diverse aboriginal representation in comic books. This is an anthology […]
Guest Post: Writing While Indigenous/Writing While Chinese Intersectionality in Oz YA – A Conversation
Writing While Indigenous/Writing While Chinese Intersectionality in Oz YA Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer, illustrator and law academic who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region […]
Review: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Gareth Hinds
Plays are meant to be performed, not read. But a) not everybody lives near a theatre that performs Shakespeare’s plays, b) living near a theatre does not mean you can […]
Review: The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings
The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]
Notes from the Wild: Vol. 14
Five Finds is a sporadic feature on my blog in which I share five books that match a given theme/subject/topic. Topics so far have included Fiction for Budding Cupcake […]
Review: Climbing the Date Palm by Shira Glassman
Climbing the Date Palm is the second book in the Mangoverse series (The Second Mango is the first – you might want to start there) buuuut this one fits better with […]
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle: A Discussion
I was going to discuss the immigrant experience from a personal perspective being an immigrant myself. I was going to talk about the importance of books when you are feeling […]
Nafiza’s Guide to Reading Diversely in 2016 Part 2
A couple of months earlier (two or three?) I posted a list of titles that, in my opinion, deal with diverse characters and/or are written by POC authors. Here are […]
The Book Wars 