Falling in Love with Hominids | 
I finally made it back to the Empty Cup Collective for a spicy honey pizza! It was delicious, but not nearly as spicy as I expected. I‘d even call it non-spicy with an occasional mild hit.
I read another story from FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS while I ate. It‘s a strong collection so far, with a good mix of story lengths so I can jump around depending on how much reading time I‘ve got.
pickAugust #BookSpin done! Just in time for... October... 🤷♀️ lol
Diverse sff short stories. Strong collection; as with all short story collections, some worked better for me than others, but overall I really enjoyed them.
@TheAromaofBooks
August #BookSpin and #doublespin
Some sff short stories and some word nerdery! Two of my favourite things ❤️
Thanks as always for hosting and all your work, @TheAromaofBooks!
"That beautiful woman making breakfast in her kitchen dives better than you do. You've seen her knifing so sharply through waves that you wondered they didn't bleed in her wake."
#quotes #fallinginlovewithhominids #sff #specfic #weneeddiversebooks #shortstories
#7days7covers #covercrush Day 6 (catch up from yesterday)
Cover art by Chuma Hill
Kitty toes photobomb by Callie 😸
Story Bundle by Humble Bundle time, featuring 2019 World SF, curated by Lavie Tidar featuring tagged! It'sall good!
https://storybundle.com/scifi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaig...
I can't decide what book to read for the "includes African mythology" prompt #sfftbrchallenge These 4 look like they might fit, from what I can tell from the back covers. (Please tell me if you've read one and it doesn't fit).
Has anyone else doing #sfftbrchallenge filled this prompt? What book did you use?
Help me decide which book to read, Littens! Feel free to base a vote off anything... favourite cover art, whatever.
Movies: Freaky Friday- Jodi Foster version, the Faculty , Fargo
Food: feta cheese, flapjacks
TV shows: Falling skys, Father Dowling mysteries
Books: Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi; First Rider's Call, Kristen Britain; Falling in Love with Hominids, Nalo Hopkinson; Fellowship of Fear, Aarons Elkins.
#manicmonday #letterF @JoScho
I was tagged by @annkuch13 to do #5fordinner. Thanks! I picture a dinner by candlelight only, with writers of spooky, scary, suspenseful,shivery stories. (5 S's😨)
Nalo Hopkinson, Falling in Love with Hominids
Edgar Allan Poe,The Telltale Heart, The Black Cat...
Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
I tag @sprainedbrain , @Nikkiwright73, @ReadingEnvy
Day 1 #readingwomenmonth - short story collections. SFF and CanLit, some I've read and some I'm still trying to get to. Ursula K. LeGuin is very well represented because... well, because Ursula K. LeGuin.
so-soHopkinson has long been a part of the sci-fi/speculative/fantasy scene, and her fiction is incisive, intimate, chilling, and emotional. In a few pages, she evokes foreign worlds w haunting familiarity, characters who plucked at my heart and linger still. While a bit uneven -- the standout stories really stand out -- this is a marvelous intro and a welcome volume for those who crave fiction featuring characters of color and/or queer folks.
pick👻 👻 👻 👻 👻 This was a wonderful collection of short stories. Nalo Hopkinson is an amazingly talented writer. I love that her stories have an otherworldly quality to them. (Also, that cover!!! 😍) My favourite story in this book is Habits which is about an haunted mall. This was my H selection for #LitsyAtoZ.
pickThis is a collection of short stories by Nalo Hopkinson. They are speculative fiction featuring as main characters people of color and positive roles of LGBT persons. I thoroughly enjoyed the stories, they are beautifully written and widely varied. You will encounter street children living and hiding from a beast, a child with accelerated development, a highly tattooed orchid grower, and a Salvation Army Santa Clause. I highly recommend the book.
"if something bad ever happens to you and nobody will believe your side of the story, you can talk to me. Because I know what it's like."
The Smile On The Face, from Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson.
Comfort re-read: I finally have my own copy :D #nalohopkinson #litsygram #diversitybingo2017
a small selection of the ever-growing tbr stack. (the purple one is my kobo so it's actually not such a small selection) #photoadaynov16 #novembertbr
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Most people aren't fans of short story collections or don't have an opinion on them because they simply don't think to read them! I started reading lots of them In 2016 and have been converted. Falling in Love With Hominids was one of my first in 2016 and I adored it. The stories within are diverse in content and representation. They're incredibly unique and Imaginative. This is a great intro to Nalo Hopkinson's work.
#fantasy
Impulse buy at the bookstore this evening. tbr stack is already monstrous but just look at that gorgeous cover.
pickNalo Hopkinson's FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS is a though-provoking collection of short speculative fiction stories and one that will linger with the reader for a long time. If you're interested in highly imaginative stories featuring diversity of all kinds, you're going to want to check out this book.
