Hello fellow book lovers, I am looking for recommendation for a good book from N.K. Jemisin to start with. I have never read any of the work and I dont know where to start.

I generally dont read fantasy that much, but lately with all going on in the world I feel the need to escape. So if you have any other fantasy recommendations that are feminist, anti-capitalist/colonialist, Ill be happy to hear them!

Thanks!❤️

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!!!

Here are some great recs that help us remember these amazing groups of people today!! (And every day)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth By The Red Nation

I have so many more, but here is just a few. Feel free to also add reccomended works down below as well!!

i typically don’t go into books blind—if i had a therapist, they could call it a trauma response —but i’m loving learning about the premise of this book! the concept is fascinating and the prose is rich, while subtle. also sad, lol. this is going to be sad huh

(bc sharing is caring) for new readers: this is written in 2nd POV (shout-out GingerBiccie), and there is not one but TWO appendixes in the back of the book.

Ive had a tumultuous journey with reading over the years, from loving it as a kid/tween to not picking up a single book from 15 through to 20. I'm now much happier with my little book routine :)

As the title suggests, I think the fact that I'm autistic impacts my enjoyment (for better or worse) of books in a huge way. For instance,

Pattern Recognition

I am so bad for noticing when an author uses the same phrase, word or even sentence structure repeatedly, and once I start noticing, I can't stop. Sometimes that means my enjoyment of the book is waaaay lower, as I become very critical of the writing.

But also....

Joy and stimming

I know this might be weird to say, but I feel I get a little extra joy out of a good book? Getting to a good metaphor, or action scene or big twist, and having it be so great that my reaction becomes physical and i start to stim. That's the good shit right there.

So, if you are also neurodivergent, do you feel that impacts your reading journey?