50 Books POC Poll, Part II

[rachelmanija]

Note: I have already read and enjoyed other works by Alexie, Tharoor, Butler, Myers, Johnson, and Yoshimoto.

[Poll #1343619]

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

The Vandana Singh book sounds fun. Blood Brothers sounds totally cool. And I haven't read any Sherman Alexie (except one short story, I think), but he seems like a pretty cool guy.

Thank you for doing this, by the way. I have so many books in my "to-be-read" pile already, but I wouldn't even know a lot of these books existed otherwise. I've never felt the urge to deliberately seek out books by People of Color, I think because throughout my education, the only books I ever heard about by People of Color were about People of Color. Like, here is a book and you can learn about the culture, the end. I wasn't really aware that there were many cool books that I would read regardless of the author's race. I'm sure I will be coming back to your "book recs" tag one day.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I'd been missing out on tons of really cool books because (due to white society, etc) they tend to be marginalized, and what I got exposed to, other than manga, was much like what you describe: "read this, it's good for you." Which is not half so appealing as "read this, it has a Green Beret and a former hacker named Captain Africa, and they fight crime supernatural predation."

But due to white society, etc, all those cool books aren't automatically presented to you. But there's lots of them and they aren't actually hard to find, once it occurs to you to look.

PS. I cannot wait for your report on the Mahabharata.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I'm reading Never Let Me Go right now, after which I will hit Scott Pilgrim. I did go back and buy Born Confused, and I think I want to read that while it's fresh in my mind or else I'll never get to it. I don't know when I'll tackle the Mahabharata. It's daunting!

And I totally agree with you on the marginalization. They're out there; we just don't know about them.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I got Scott Pilgrim #5 today! I am so excited!

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

My pusher bought me the first two for my birthday, and I bought the second two yesterday since my comic book store was having a sale. I will wait to buy the fifth one since I've been spendy lately; I just hope they have it in stock when I need it! I'm looking forward to reading them, but I've been told I should draw it out and make it last because then I'll have to wait forever for the last book to come out. But I am impatient! And have other things to read! How much continuity is there between books? Is it the kind of series where I could read one book and then read something else and read the next book weeks later? Or is it like a normal comic series where it reads best continuously from trade to trade?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

There is a lot of continuity, but I've been reading them as they come out, so I don't think taking a break of a few weeks between will hurt.