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Me and White Supremacy
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad is $2.99 at Amazon! This book has been fluctuating in price all week, so this sale could be gone in an instant. The physical book is also backordered in a lot of places, so grabbing this one digitally if the sale lasts seems like the way to go.
Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and nearly 100,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook.
Updated and expanded from the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy,takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources.
Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. The numbers show that readers are ready to do this work—let’s give it to them.
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Upright Women Wanted
RECOMMENDED: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey is $2.99! Carrie read this one and gave it a B+:
I have a hunch that this book will launch an A+ series, but it feels too much like a prequel to be graded an A+ and too much of a good prequel to merit anything less than an B+.
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”
Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.
The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.
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Reborn Yesterday
Reborn Yesterday by Tessa Bailey is 99c! This, I think, was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet, and it may be Bailey’s first paranormal romance. I’m a Bailey fan, but have been let down by her most recent contemporaries, but this one certainly had me interested. Have you read this one?
A timeless love story with bite.
It was a night like any other for funeral home director Ginny Lynn, until the exceptionally handsome—and unfortunately deceased—young man on her embalming table sat up, opened his emerald eyes and changed the course of her life forever, making her feel quite fluttery while he was at it.
Humans aren’t supposed to know Jonas Cantrell, or any vampire, exists. It’s kind of a major rule. Despite his instantaneous bond with perfectly peculiar Ginny, he has no choice but to erase her memories of their one and only meeting.
That was the plan. Before a reluctant Jonas can wipe Ginny’s mind clean, she reveals a secret that brings their worlds crashing together. Human and vampire. Past and present. Darkness and light. And while their love is strictly forbidden, it might be the only thing that can save them…
Reborn Yesterday is a standalone paranormal romantic comedy with a happily ever after.
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Chilling Effect
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes is $2.99! This sounds all sorts of fun and is giving me Douglas Adams vibes mixed with some Becky Chambers. Oh, and did I mention that there are psychic space cats!
A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.
But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family.
To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.
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“Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change.” I would add that “awareness is life-altering.” Such a powerful workbook and experience.
I just found out I was shorted $2000.00 on my paycheck so the kid and I have started door dashing. I really cannot afford another book at this point. I still one-clicked Me and White Supremacy. I think it is important for me and for the quaranteens who hang at my house. (And I have the privilege to know that we can eat stored food until the payroll thing gets fixed.).
The cover of Reborn Yesterday is amazingly cool (and creative).
My library has the Me and White Supremacy ebook always available right now. Libraries are the best.
Fair warning about Chilling Effect: the psychic space cats barely make an appearance, so don’t go into it expecting a full space cattery experience or you’ll be disappointed. Not that I did that. Ahem.
Ditto what Jacki said.
I was disappointed the cover didn’t happen in the plot, if I remember right (cats and main character tumbling out of the ship).
There are some Spanish chapter titles and phrases in the text, with no translation provided. I didn’t bother looking them up while reading; personally I find having to do that too disruptive for fiction.
Sorry, forgot to say the lack of translation didn’t bother me too much. It wasn’t tons of text, usually phrases or one sentence, but I made the choice to not look up the meanings. It would’ve been nice to have it included.
I one clicked/pre-ordered Born Yesterday because I was so excited vampires might be in again, and I just can’t get through it. I hardly ever DNF, but…I’m just not interested. Everybody annoys me. Maybe I’ll try again in a few months.
re: Chilling Effect
The cats were not featured as much as I would like and I found it on the whole, a bit disappointing. It promised a fun, space opera romp that didn’t quite live up to expectations. Plus, the main character was annoying and a bad friend (which I always hate). I’m undecided about reading the next one.
And artist did an Old Skool romance novel cover version of Reylo and is donating the profits to charity: https://mobile.twitter.com/gutlesswunder/status/1265633672784490501
I found Chilling Effect to be a delightful action-forward space romp. The main character is flawed, but working on it. The cats were cats. I did have to look up a number of the Spanish phrases and have come away with an even greater appreciation for Spanish language profanity. I bought the book based on this post and then couldn’t put it down.
For an excellent space opera with lots of psychic cat action, I recommend Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair. It has an enemies to lovers romance between an uptight cyborg virgin hero and swashbuckling heroine, good world building and compelling, complicated plot. Plus psychic cats.
I bought Reborn Yesterday because of the gorgeous cover and hopes that a book billing itself as a romantic comedy might have some clever takes on the vampire trope (à la “What We Do In the Shadows”). It does not. What is does have is predictably overwrought drama, disappointing gender dynamics, a bunch of typos, and the completely serious phrase “batting her clitoris like a predator with its cornered prey.” So I guess it did had some unexpected comedic elements after all.