Tell me of books!

[sholio]

After writing my last (f'locked) post and then feeling kind of useless and whingey and basically like I was just derailing things onto my own whining, I thought: For pete's sake, I could do something useful instead.

So! What have you read lately by PoC creators that was cool or fun or interesting or otherwise worthy of a rec? Books? Comics? Manga? (I'm sure some of you can chime in on that one. :D)

I am currently reading a book called Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang, about the exodus from village to factory towns in China, and the young women who make up the bulk of the work force. There is a more personal tone to this book than you tend to get with a lot of news-reporting-type nonfiction; the author, who is an American of Chinese descent, is also exploring her own history and telling her own story as much as that of the girls that she is interviewing.

(And, damn it, I *will* finish that Kindred write-up when I get a chance!)

What have you read lately? What do you recommend? coffeeandink asked for people to leave recommendations for books by PoC authors here in the comments to her post explaining the fail -- I'm not trying to trump her, and I do recommend looking through her comments for cool stuff to read, also. Things that you recommend here, you can also recommend there if you are comfortable doing so. Or vice versa.

Basically I just want to talk about books rather than fail for a while, damn it.

Edits: livrelibre has lotsa linkies here and rydra_wong reminded me of 50books_poc, which is an awesome resource for book reviews and recs.

Comments

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It's not exactly what one would call a celebrity book - it was published in 1995, written before he'd run for political office. So it's not like a ghost-written autobiography trying to cash in on fame. And Obama's a fine writer, a bit given to the grandiose, but eloquent - he writes like he speaks.

I haven't read that many biographies, auto or otherwise (I hadn't realized I was interested in them until recently) but I'm finding it interesting, anyway?