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Kantolope finished reading If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk (Hardcover, 2006, San Val, Perfection Learning)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful …

Kantolope quoted If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of …

They [White people] looked at us as though we were zebras -and, you know, some people like zebras and some people don't. But nobody ever asks the zebra.

— If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Kantolope started reading If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful …

Kantolope reviewed Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Legends & Lattes (Paperback, 2022, Tor Books)

Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes …

A Cozy Cup of Warmth

5 stars

This is a fantastic January read for when the weather's bad and you're curled up inside. The plot is very slice of life focused, and it's as warm and cozy as the drinks described in the novel itself. Highly reccommend for anyone who feels they need to escape from real life for a couple of hours.

Kantolope commented on Hearth by Annick Smith

A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O’Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and …

The rest of the book so far has been good (It's an anthology), but the essay I'm reading now is almost laughably bad. It's about the South Vietnamese experience trying to resist assimilation to American culture, which could be interesting, but the author is talking about the things they've lost like "Oh, those evil commies stole my manor house where I extracted rent from like 500 tenants, killed my father who fought in the South Vietnamese army, and stole my servant who literally had to work the day after giving birth at 5:00 AM" (that last one is literally said by the author as though it shows her dedication to her work and not her exploitation). The "happy ending" that the author settles on is that a South Vietnamese exile married a Belgian noble and became royalty of her own. Like I understand that immigration is a brutal process, and …

The rest of the book so far has been good (It's an anthology), but the essay I'm reading now is almost laughably bad. It's about the South Vietnamese experience trying to resist assimilation to American culture, which could be interesting, but the author is talking about the things they've lost like "Oh, those evil commies stole my manor house where I extracted rent from like 500 tenants, killed my father who fought in the South Vietnamese army, and stole my servant who literally had to work the day after giving birth at 5:00 AM" (that last one is literally said by the author as though it shows her dedication to her work and not her exploitation). The "happy ending" that the author settles on is that a South Vietnamese exile married a Belgian noble and became royalty of her own. Like I understand that immigration is a brutal process, and especially immigration to the USA, but let me play a sad song for the author on the world's smallest violin.