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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism - Patricia Hill Collins. ExpandRead more... )

Rocket Girls - Housuke Nojiri, translated by Joseph Reeder. ExpandRead more... )

Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America - Daryl J. Maeda. ExpandRead more... )

Succubus Heat - Richelle Mead. ExpandRead more... )

Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human - Edited by Frenchy Lunning. ExpandRead more... )

Mechademia 4: War/Time - Edited by Frenchy Lunning. ExpandRead more... )
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In 2008, I read 152 books, 18 of which were rereads. Last year I was excited to compile a list of the best books I read; I'm not sure I'll get around to it this year though.

Onward!

The Organic Garden: Green Gardening for a Healthy Planet - Allan Shepherd. ExpandRead more... )

Go Organic! Successful organic gardening in 5 easy steps - Bob Flowerdew. ExpandRead more... )

No Humans Involved - Kelley Armstrong. ExpandRead more... )

Personal Demon - Kelley Armstrong. ExpandRead more... )

Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead. ExpandRead more... )

The Devil Inside - Jenna Black. ExpandRead more... )

Undead & Unappreciated - Mary Janice Davidson. ExpandRead more... )

Borrowed Light - Anna Fienberg. ExpandRead more... )
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Air - Geoff Ryman. ExpandRead more... )

Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women - Edited by Asian Women United of California. ExpandRead more... )

Succubus on Top - Richelle Mead. ExpandRead more... )

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live - Martha Beck. ExpandRead more... )

Days of Disquiet, Nights of Rage: The First Quarter Storm and Related Events - Jose F. Lacaba. ExpandRead more... )

Romancing the Dead - Tate Hallaway. ExpandRead more... )

Wolf Tales - Kate Douglas. ExpandRead more... )

Topography of War: Asian American Essays - Edited by Andrea Louie & Johnny Lew. ExpandRead more... )
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Hell's Belles - Jackie Kessler. ExpandRead more... )

The Language of Baklava - Diana Abu-Jaber. ExpandRead more... )

The Nymphos of Rocky Flats - Mario Acevedo. ExpandRead more... )

Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith. ExpandRead more... )

Gods and Pawns: Stories of the Company - Kage Baker. ExpandRead more... )

The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense - Suzette Haden Elgin. ExpandRead more... )

Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko. ExpandRead more... )

The Mirador - Sarah Monette. ExpandRead more... )

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead. ExpandRead more... )

Many Bloody Returns: Tales of Birthdays with Bite - Edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner. ExpandRead more... )

Devilish - Maureen Johnson. ExpandRead more... )

Prom Dates from Hell - Rosemary Clement-Moore. ExpandRead more... )

Fly on the Wall - E. Lockhart. ExpandRead more... )

Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience - Edited by Chandra Prasad. ExpandRead more... )
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Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide - Donald A. Ritchie. This is packed full of useful information. However, while chapters are organized topically, within them, the text consists solely of questions followed by answers of a few paragraphs of more. So it was essentially like reading a 250-page FAQ: useful, but by no means scintillating.

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism - Derrick Bell. Bell has a lot of interesting, compelling ideas about race, but some of the essays were so clunkily written I cringed a little. He likes to use the conceit of imagined dialogue a lot, which is fine, but the people seem so stilted & academic & not like anyone else I've encountered talks (including academics). Several of his science fiction stories are included here (including "The Space Traders," where the US ships all its black people off w/aliens in exchange for various treasures), & these I found really good, solid reading.

Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead. Oh, fun! Georgina Kincaid is a succubus who's unhappy w/the whole deal, mostly b/c she's lonely: she can't date nice guys b/c of course she ends up sucking away some of his life energy when her succubus nature kicks in. She has a bunch of friends (demons, vampires, an angel) who are also, in various ways, not excited about the supernatural imperatives they're chained to. Georgina is trying to live as normal a life as possible: she works in a Seattle bookstore, loves slightly pulpy-sounding books, & tries to put up w/her loneliness. The core of the plot revolves around sudden murders of local supernaturals. I can't be arsed to describe it further, but this was a fun, fun book, & I will definitely be reading the next one.

Shadows in the Darkness - Elaine Cunningham. It seems I like storylines involving ex-cops (even tho' I am, shall we say, less fond of cops): Tanya Huff's Blood books (which I haven't finished yet), & now this one. Gwen Gelman is a PI who was forced out of police work when she was blamed for a bust gone wrong. When she investigates a string of abductions of young girls, she learns that... sigh... she's an elf, actually. Which would explain (squick) why she's 34 but looks like she's in high school--slow aging, & all that. Anyway, the book was much more interesting before this reveal (even though you knew it would happen), & I'm not sure I'll keep reading this series.

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