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pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ • Fun fact: I live in the small suburb just north of Seattle that Octavia Butler lived and died in. My local bookstore was her local bookstore!
pickMore historical fiction than science fiction and the hardest parts to read were the parts that once were a reality. I realize that I am privileged and ignorant of this time period, and this book yanked me into Dana's ordeal in a personal, brutal way and taught me so much. Deserving all the stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
pickSecond read for book club and to read while the new tv series is on! A classic, for sure, and so confounding to this day. I like that the series has moved the modern timeline into the near-present. It's so hard to get into the racial mindset of the 1970s and know enough to figure out the dynamics. Confounding!
Worked hard getting both trees & all the Christmas decor packed away (ugh) so now it‘s time for lazy reading & football watching. 🙌🏻 This my first Octavia E. Butler! Thoughts? Only a few chapters in, but intrigued.
#52bookclub23 #abookbyOctaviaEButler
pickIn this captivating and perplexing story, Dana - a young black woman, time travels between current day (1976, California) and a plantation her ancestors are enslaved on in Maryland during the 1800s. First time reading Octavia Butler - looking forward to reading more of her work.
My top 22 reads of 2022. This was hard to narrow down 😊 Cheers to 2023 🥂
pickI almost can't forgive myself for having waited this long to read this book for the first time. Wow. That's all I can think to say because of how powerful it is, particularly for being so far ahead of its time. Literally.
And on a personal note: as a mixed kid who grew up in this often horrible world to become the woman I am today, it cut me deep.
✔️Headed toward the finish line with “Kindred” starting the series this week!📺
Re-reading Octavia Butler‘s “KINDRED” forty-three years since publication. A new Hulu series!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickTimeless novel written in the 70s. Dana, a Black woman, lives with her white husband. She gets transported back to 1815 Maryland, interacting w/ her ancestors, both black and white. The novel explores how people survive under oppressors, how easy it is to slip into roles & how difficult it can be to escape them, the difficult moral choices people make to survive, & the complicated relationships between oppressors & oppressed.
pickIn Kindred, Octavia Butler weaves a historical science fiction story of time travel with Dana Franklin, who is called back in time to a slave plantation of her ancestors, exploring the horrifically real lives of slaves and slave owners. The intensity and graphic nature of Dana‘s experiences are masterfully played out in first person past and present perfect tenses, which had a gripping effect.
Starting this next on audio before the show comes out!
pickThere are multiple layers to Kindred. At once it‘s complex and simple, Sci-fi and not Sci-fi, fiction and nonfiction. The beginning suffers a bit from “first-part-itis” — the dialogue can be cringeworthy and the fact that Butler allows her characters to accept what‘s happened with little question is a bit distracting. The dialogue does improve, however, and the story is so good and so important that these minor flaws don‘t matter by the end.
pickWith 2 very interesting topics being interwoven,the book is an interesting one. Written by a female author of colour & written way ahead of its time. Sci-Fi and Fantasy put together in the form of Time Travel & slavery in the antebellum America.it's a journey that is belwildering as well as thought provoking.One has to applaud the author for her thorough research & weaving this beautiful story,which stays with you for a while.
📘Tagged and The Kite Runner
✒️Barbara Kingsolver, Sue Monk Kidd
🎬 The King's Speech
🎤 The Killers
🎶 Kangaroo Cry (Blue October) Kristy, Are You Doing Okay (The Offspring) King Tut (Steve Martin) Kiss Me (Sixpence None the Richer) Keep on Lovin You (REO Speedwagon)
#ManicMonday @CBee
📚 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
🖋 Stephen King (I‘ve read him the most but it‘s been a while- not 100% sure if he‘s my favorite anymore), Steve Kluger and E.L. Konigsburg (runners up)
🎞 The Kid (Chaplin)
🎤 The Killers or The Kinks, I suppose.
🎼 “Killer Queen,” by Queen, “Kooks,” by David Bowie #manicmonday #letterk @CBee
For anyone that has read this book or love this author— how are you guys feeling about this series coming to FX? It has been a long time coming, what is everyone‘s thoughts? Octavia Butler is iconic — I have mixed feelings about this. Love to hear your thoughts #poc #woc #bipoc #timetravel
I can‘t tell you how excited I am that the series adaptation of this amazing book will be released on Hulu starting December 13th. I knew they were working on it but wasn‘t sure when it would be released. Trying not to get my expectations too high but it sounds good! If you have not read it, I highly recommend it—not an easy read but a really good one.
Link to EW article:
https://ew.com/tv/kindred-fx-branden-jacobs-jenkins-preview/
pickI‘ll admit, when we picked this for our book club read this month I wasn‘t sure. 1970s Sci-Fi; I‘m not sure that‘s my thing. How wrong I was. I loved it. Such accessible, modern writing. Such an incredibly powerful story about slavery, power, race and so much more.
pickI did not know what to expect going in. I was not even sure what the book was about, just that it was always recommended. This is one of those books that will stick with me for awhile.
For #LetterK .. one of my all time faves: Kindred 🖤
It's one of those books I think everyone would benefit from reading at least once.
#alphabetgame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Kindred by Octavia Butler
I love this one! There's time travel and history. It is considered the first science fiction book written by a black woman. It is fantastic!
#AlphabetGame
#LetterK
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pickThis has been on my TBR for YEARS! I had no idea what it was about but it was a wild ride. In 1976, Dana is moving into a new home with her white husband when she suddenly finds herself on a plantation in 1819 saving a boy from drowning. Rufus is the son of the plantation owner and a direct ancestor of Dana's. Time and again Dana is pulled back into the antebellum south to save Rufus' life. 4.5⭐️
pickI mean WOW. I'm not sure how to process this book.
A modern day women who get pulled back into slavery and is on a mission to honor her values, her ancestry, and to save a young boy.
I had to battle my own morals and ask myself what would I do.
Just wow! A classic must read. And a brilliant insight and discussion on interracial relationships as well. 👏
Just started this historical science fiction novel. I'm listening to the audiobook and I'm only 3 chapters in but I am hooked.
Wow. This is going to be a hard hitting masterpiece. I need to prepare myself for all the emotions.
#pop22 Three months down and I‘ve completed 9/40 books for the challenge. @KarenUK @Cinfhen @Kalalalatja @Megabooks @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraBB @Laughterhp @RaeLovesToRead @jenniferw88
pickI love time travel books and this one did not disappoint! It‘s raw, emotional, disturbing and historically important. I placed a hold on the Graphic Novel format to read next week.
#pop22 ~ an #ownvoices SFF book
@KarenUK @Cinfhen @Kalalalatja @Megabooks @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraBB @Laughterhp @RaeLovesToRead @jenniferw88
Why yes, I did cancel plans because it‘s snowing and I‘d rather be reading. 😅🤣 #catsoflitsy
pickThis is the first book that I‘ve read by #octaviabutler and it is amazing!
Having Dana as the main character and seeing what is happening through her perspective is what makes this story interesting.
#blackliterature
#blackwomenauthors
#blacksciencefictionandfantasy
pickMy first book by Octavia Butler and wow was it good! 😵 This was a phenomenal story that used a lens of science fiction to look back on America‘s painful legacy of slavery with a very nuanced eye. Well written and with quite human characters, Kindred was fantastic! 😃 For my full thoughts, see my review here:
https://youtu.be/00sPF86lYpI
pickFirst 5 star read of the year! Complex characters, time travel, a reliable and strong narrator: what more could you ask for? I regret that I had to put it down for classes, and only just picked it up again.
You can read my full review here: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/kindred
#scifi #historicalfiction #cat #catsoflitsy
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pickThis was a re-read for me after 20 years. I still liked it and I was able to share the journey with my husband. We were on the edge of our seats with Dana's time travel & my heart broke every atrocity described in the book. 4.5 ⭐
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2 of 2 - Whew! This was quite a task! Here are my #pop22 books, subject to change based on book club choices. 28 of these are on my physical TBR bookshelves which I‘m super excited about. 4 are new to me books that I had to google and the rest are on my TBR radar. I‘ve got a few big ones, so we‘ll see. Let the games begin!
pickI wanted more. It was “just the facts” storytelling. I wanted descriptions and emotions. I wanted Kevin‘s story from his POV. I didn‘t really engage until mid-story, but then it was riveting. The idea of time travel has always been a fantasy of mine, but you never really think of traveling to the Hellish times in history like Dana did. She traveled from 1976 to the Antebellum South as a black woman. 3/5🧭s
pickThis amazing book not only tells the reader about slavery, it ingeniously makes you live it by transporting you with its modern-day heroine back in time. Because she is black, she is treated as a slave. Because she, and you, are free, you feel keenly the injustice and indignity of her enslavement. Each transport back to the present reminds you what has been taken away. Octavia Butler is a genius.
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Sci-fi isn‘t my favorite genre, but I‘m glad I gave this a try! Being ripped through time to experience the horrors of our history of slavery through a modern lens was emotional and effective. I would have had no idea it was written in the 70‘s; it‘s a timeless tale. 🎧
pickConsider time-travel. Do you view it as dangerous to the future and fear changing history, and possibly even your future? Perhaps you think about it more frivolously and want to experience a large event. Do you wish you could go back and take a different life path? Regardless of what you imagine, are you imagining the possibility of that trip being physically dangerous and life-threatening? Likely not, but that's what Butler has done here, ⬇️
