Dear Martin by Nic Stone I’m incredibly glad that Dear Martin exists. I love so, so much about it, from its setting in the South, to the brilliantly complex socioeconomics of its main players. Dear Martin is a smart take and a use of fiction as the device for social change that it always can … Continue reading DRUNK REVIEW: Dear Martin by Nic Stone – Parker’s Thoughts
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Will Vote for Booze: An Interview with “Infomocracy” Author, Malka Older
Earlier this summer we sat down with one of our favorite authors, Malka Older, to talk Infomocracy, the limits and uses of governmental power, and what it's like to have lived and worked in Washington, D.C. among, like, ten other places over the world. But this is Will Read for Booze, people!! So we invited her … Continue reading Will Vote for Booze: An Interview with “Infomocracy” Author, Malka Older
P’s To Be Read: A BoozieBookathon Extravaganzaaaa
*KLAXONS BLARE, DISRUPTING THE SWAMPY VIRGINIA MURK. THE LAST SUMMER SWALLOWS CHITTER AND FLEE. I TRAIPSE INTO FOCUS, GRINNING MISCHIEVOUSLY* ISSA (BOOZIE) BOOKATHON BRO PREPARE YA RETINAS (And also I guess ya brains and fine motor control to turn the pages and, idk, read or whatever you get it) If you somehow missed it, we're … Continue reading P’s To Be Read: A BoozieBookathon Extravaganzaaaa
DRUNK REVIEW: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Binti is a survivor unparalleled, which makes me love her immediately. add the fact that she's supremely talented & hella unappreciated and i root for her with everthing i have. reading Nnedi Okorafor's (series of ) "Binti" stor(ies) offered the best kind of reading pleasure; it showed me a world i … Continue reading DRUNK REVIEW: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Inheritance Trilogy #1, by N.K. Jemisin
As I laze here, 4 double margaritas in, I’m forced to wonder a few things: Will grocery-delivery culture be the springboard that plummets American culture fully into its sedentary nadir? How precisely is it that I have had a crush on River Song for so long, and after not watching Doctor Who for like a … Continue reading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Inheritance Trilogy #1, by N.K. Jemisin
DRUNK REVIEW: Reading Blue Devils by Jon Bennett
Reading Blue Devils by Jon Bennett So ya boy dieter is a teacher and uhhhh he doesn't suck? He's lazy and manipulat(able)ive. Reading Blue Devils is about this mans and a mascot. There’s a number of ways I’m both the right wrong person to read Reading Blue Devils. I’m a former teacher. I’m Pretty “woke”. … Continue reading DRUNK REVIEW: Reading Blue Devils by Jon Bennett
DRUNK REVIEW: Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
A little more than a year ago, sam passed me a book and said , “p read this! It’s like hunger games on mars , and with space battles!” And i read Red Rising and was blown tf away, and I dealt with her swooning over pierce Brown’s regular looking ass long enough to get … Continue reading DRUNK REVIEW: Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
DRUNK REVIEW: Broken Earth Trilogy or, Black Women Save the Day by N K Jemisin
The Fifth Season, book 1 of of Broken Earth, is written with a verve that rocked me the first time i read it. I had to revisit it, line by line, to acknowledge prose written so gorgeously that I lacked the werewithal to notice they were plot points. That beauty continues through the second two novels. NK … Continue reading DRUNK REVIEW: Broken Earth Trilogy or, Black Women Save the Day by N K Jemisin
TOP 5 TOP 5 TOP 5, Or: A Year of Reading, in Review.
I read a bunch of shit this year, if slighly less than last year. would that i could guess at how many pages that would be. aaaaand right on time, cue Sam. me: shit what did i read this year; i'm reflecting on my top 5 and shit sam: you know what would help with … Continue reading TOP 5 TOP 5 TOP 5, Or: A Year of Reading, in Review.
5 characters I really gotta get a drink with
As much as I’m a reader, I’m a lush and an extrovert, and to that end, there are few things more important to me than having good drankin’ partners. I have a few, obvi (via an extensive, not entirely legal vetting process) but in true ENFP fashion, would love to add to it. Particularly if … Continue reading 5 characters I really gotta get a drink with
