Andrea Hairston's Will Do Magic for Small Change took me a long time to read. It's a narrative in two times, one story in 1980s Chicago and one in nineteenth-century sub-Saharan Africa (moving through Paris and eventually to Chicago). Redwood and Wildfire, protagonists of ... Redwood and Wildfire ... are supporting characters, and an odd piece of ( Read more... )

Just trying to keep up the habit ...

I am about halfway through Andrea Hairston's Will Do Magic for Small Change. At bedtime, I am close to finishing the complete stories of Cordwainer Smith, which has taken many months. And
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This is why I need to do reading posts more often ...

T. Thorn Coyle’s Like Water is a novel set in and around the Occupy Oakland encampment. It tells the story of a black man shot and killed by the Oakland cops, from the perspectives of the dead man, the dead man’s best friend (effectively brother) who is white, the white man’s wife, and ( Read more... )