An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Genres: Horror, historical fiction
Read if you like: mushrooms, The Shining by Stephen King, the amount of body horror on Santa Clarita Diet (TV show)
Also of note: This is an #ownvoices story set in Mexico with an overlapping theme of colonialism throughout the book.
FBC rating: 4.5 stars
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Genres: Contemporary fiction, romance
Read if you like: soap operas featuring nosy relatives, stories about people pushing back against tradition, lavish settings
Also of note: Honestly, this is excellent for anyone stuck at home and wants to experience a little bit of travel through a book.
FBC rating: 4 stars
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know about Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
Genres: Contemporary non-fiction
Read if you like: award-winning longform journalism, novel approaches to social issues, well-researched non-fiction that reads easily
Also of note: Podcast interview with the author forthcoming!
FBC rating: 4.5 stars
The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo
Genres: Memoir
Read if you like: The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya, #ownvoices alternatives to American Dirt, a book with a little bit of hope in an otherwise awful situation, stories about immigration
Also of note: Learn more about Immigrant Families Together here.
FBC rating: 3.5 stars
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Genres: Historical fiction, contemporary fiction, with a flair of mystery
Read if you like: stories of women finally realizing their worth, Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed, Dickens if he weren’t a misogynist asshole
Also of note: This won’t be released until spring of 2021 but you can preorder it!
FBC rating: 4 stars
Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal
Genres: Non-fiction
Read if you like: Stuff You Should Know (podcast), meta-analyses of research on stereotypes, Ken Burns documentaries but in book form
Also of note: While this book contains an immense amount of research, it isn’t much more than a dense literature review.
FBC rating: 2.5 stars
It is Wood, It is Stone by Gabriella Burnham
Genres: Contemporary fiction
Read if you like: The Not Wives by Carley Moore, The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero, books with a strong sense of place or books about Brazil
Also of note: If you’re into deep character studies of deeply flawed women, this is for you.
FBC rating: 3.5 stars
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Genres: Contemporary YA fiction
Read if you like: Caribbean food, strong and healthy teenage friendships and authority figures, feel-good #ownvoices coming of age stories
Also of note: This was our July book of the month for our FOOD theme!
FBC rating: 5 stars
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