Reading Wednesday This

[lydamorehouse]

 As you all know, my friend Kate and I are teaching a zoom class on BIPOC and Queer SF/F for readers called "Reading the (Whole) Room: Race and Queerness in Science Fiction and Fantasy."  Kate has managed to score a live guest author for our next class, Nino Cipri, so I quick read everything of theirs that I could find on the interwebs.

So, this week, I read:

• “The Shape of my Name” by Nino Cipri (Tor.com, 2015)
• “A Silly Love Story” by Nino Cipri (Daily SF, September 2012)
• “Better Girl From Broken Parts,” by Nino Cipri (November, 2014)
• “Let Down, Set Free,” by Nino Cipri (Crossed Genres 2.0 #29, May 2015)
• ‘It Happened To Me: My Doppleganger Stole My Credit Card Info, and then My Life,”by Nino Cipri (Fireside Magazine #39, January 2017)
• “It Happened To Me: I Melded My Consciousness With the Giant Alien Mushroom Floating Above Chicago,” by Nino Cipri (Fireside Magazine, March 2017)
• “It Happened To Me: I Was Brought Back to Avenge My Death, But Chose Justice Instead,” by Nino Cipri (Fireside Magazine, April 2017)
• “Which Super Little Dead Girl™ Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out!” by Nino Cipri (Nightmare Magazine #62, December 2017)
• “Dead Air,” by Nino Cipri (Nightmare Magazine #71, August 2018)
• Odontogenesis, by Nino Cipri (Fireside Magazine, October 2018)

 

In anime watching, I am checking out the Ghost in the Shell anime. I've seen the anime movie, of course, long ago, but I had never managed to catch up on the anime itself--despite having read a lot of the manga, as well.

I also watched the first six episodes of a show called Ikebukuro West Gate Park, which is a story with a fun premise. The fictional version of the real-life Tokyo district Ikebukuro has been overrun by gangs. Our hero is a young delinquent who has managed to stay outside of the gangs, despite (or most likely because of) his childhood friendship with the 'king' of the G-Boys. Makoto, our hero, basically solves crimes or unravels mysteries that are too hot for the police to touch and too volatile for the gangs to deal with. If you like yankee/delinquent heroes, this is a story for you. 

A non-fiction book on linguistics was recommended to me by naomikritzer called Because Internet by Gretchen McCoulch and I bought it. It arrived yesterday.  I am completely fascinated by how a lay-person like myself can WATCH language changing real time on the internet and this book tackles some of the recent developments, therein. I'm only into the introduction, but I'm already finding it very interesting.

Oh, and speaking of recommendations--hey, sabotabby. I totally thought of you while I was reading “It Happened To Me: I Was Brought Back to Avenge My Death, But Chose Justice Instead,” by Nino Cipri.  You need to read this one! https://firesidefiction.com/it-happened-to-me-i-was-brought-back-to-avenge-my-death-but-chose-justice-instead

Comments

[sabotabby]

Oooh, Because Internet is so much fun. I really enjoyed it.

I have never heard of Nino Cipri and now I must check them out because those are A++ titles.

[lydamorehouse]

Oh, and I just added a bit about how I would recommend this one in particular to you: https://firesidefiction.com/it-happened-to-me-i-was-brought-back-to-avenge-my-death-but-chose-justice-instead

[sabotabby]

EXCITE

[sabotabby]

OMG it's brilliant and I love it.

[lydamorehouse]

It was the last line that had me saying, "OMG, Sabs would LOVE this!"

[sabotabby]

You were Correct.

[offcntr]

Gretchen also co-hosts a brilliant linguistics podcast with Lauren Gawn called Lingthusiasm. It's one of my faves.

I just picked up Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker, noted YouTube mathematician. I'm only a couple of chapters in, but loving it, for, among other reasons, having the page numbers count down instead of up, from 313 to 4,294,967,292 (there's reasons, really). Highly recommended.

I seem to remember reading some Nino Cipri on tor.com, but will have to go there to see what it was.

[lydamorehouse]

It was probably their, "The Shape of My Name," which I also loved: https://www.tor.com/2015/03/04/the-shape-of-my-name/

That didn't make my above list because I had read it a while ago.

And, yay for a fun math book. I should get that for Mason for Solstice!

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[minoanmiss]

*wanders by*
*sees intriguing reading list*
*copies list*
*waves gratefully*

Re: *

[lydamorehouse]

You're very welcome!