The Sadie Wales series is pretty great. People get murdered in small towns in Cherokee County/country, too. It‘s pretty cool to read a mystery that treat Cherokees like normal human beings in a crime series. Amazing how seldom this happens.

A quick, beautiful read. A moon and a marriage explode. Cotton doesn‘t get planted. The world ends, the world begins. All you need is love. And burgers.

A book by a Tlingit author, Maria Williams, and Jicarilla Apache/Jemez Pueblo illustrator. I‘m highly critical of the appropriation of indigenous stories. This book is great. Sad how rare it is to find books by us, about us. Our American Indian Ed. Camp director bought copies of these for the kids and we combined it with an art project (suggested by Blick) where I encouraged the kids to illustrate their stories. Turned out super cool.

Favorite summer time read. I love this book so much. It‘s my favorite non-fiction book and in my top ten of all.

Muskogee language in this book. Brown girl on the cover. I already love this book.

What fun it was to revisit Ms. Jackson. There are a few short, odd stories in here I don‘t remember reading previously. And one that was new to me that struck me as terribly, sadly relevant: The Flower Garden. And the thread of The Daemon Lover in the blue suit throughout...and here it ends...

The Tooth has always been one of my favorites. Now that I am following James Harris, reading differently but still love it...

Trickster Drift is the sequel to Son of a Trickster and it is sooo freaking good. Going to preorder a hard copy as soon as I can. It‘s set to come out October 2018. Now I gotta go order everything else by Eden Robinson that I can...

I don‘t think I‘ve read Shirley Jackson properly before. And I don‘t remember having read the, to me, oh so devastating “Flower Garden” previously.

This book is so good. And was just the book I needed. And gave me weird dreams. And I will never look at Otters the same way again...

Gift to myself.

So cool to watch Mosley think...

If I don‘t write, I feel that I‘m not participating in my own, internal, life. Somewhere along the way I did learn that there is a personal context for me, and that background is writing. I wake up in the morning, in this skin filled with desires that have no immediate language. Finding that language is my job if not my destiny...

This was fun and smart. It was easy to see the film this book could be... Stephen Graham Jones has incredible range. I loved Izzy.

P. 71. The Last Final Girl
“You ever feel like you‘re in the prequel, like?” Izzy says to Brittney. “Like the important stuff, the stuff that really matters, it‘s just next, after this?”
“It‘s called high school...”

When you can‘t sleep, might as well read scary stories...

Went to see Colson Whitehead in Santa Fe tonight. It was a great evening... The Underground Railroad was a painful, fantastic read...

“Earth to Izzy,” Brittney says, nudging her, reminding us once more of her name.
Enjoying this book.

There There is so good.

There There is so good. This polyphonic novel has such reach and range. Such good storytelling.

“What I‘m here to talk about is how our whole approach since day one has been like this: Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they‘re jumping.”
I heard Tommy read this in January in Taos and it blew me away...
There There is gonna be so good.

Going to see this writer tonight in Dallas.

So much funny true in this... because everyone keeps score, don‘t they?

Everyone knows that academics are the most ruthless cutthroats around... I finally have time to work on rotating some books off the nightstand. Justina Ireland‘s Dread Nation was worth waiting for (and preordering)