Laguardia | 
Afrofuturism. Aliens from outer space have immigrated to Earth and become helpful citizens... but some seek to ban them. Future, a doctor who treated humans and aliens in Nigeria, flees to America with a dangerous secret. There she joins her civil rights lawyer grandmother in fighting for the rights of aliens.
Not sure how I feel about the metaphor, and there's a ton of loose ends, but it's enjoyably weird.
pickCute. The pictures were great and the story was super cute. A very optimistic book in a way. Love the aliens, how they were pictured, and the different things they could do. Helps make some issues more personal so everyone can understand the frustrations.
#graphicnovel #laguardia #nnediokorafor
“This is America. No matter what time it is, it‘s always THAT time*.”
*time to be xenophobic & anti immigrant. It‘s funny because it‘s true! (Hopefully things will be changing now but for when Nnedi wrote these comics, it‘s dead fcking on.)
#graphicnovel #nnedi #nnediokorafor #currentlyreading
I'm going to post this hashtag on the 1st of each month as I (and many littens) continue my pursuit of anti-racism in my reading life. I hope some of you join in 🤓
Today's pick, LaGuardia, because I don't come across many graphic novels written by black authors. This one touches on some really interesting topics (immigration, racism, and even how we treat the environment). Weird and thoughtful! 🖤
Tagging all littens 😉 #blackvoices
pickThe author of Binti wrote a graphic novel that won an Eisner award this year. The travel ban is reimagined with actual aliens, and the complexities on who we discriminate against and why is explored in a fascinating way. Certainly deserving of recognition.
pickI‘ll basically read anything Nnedi Okorafor writes - and I was pretty tickled when I discovered she wrote a graphic novel. 😄
This book is cool, thoughtful, and timely. I‘m including a blurb below from a note at the end that sums up my feelings:
“LaGuardia is an exploration- it‘s pushback, it‘s playful shenanigans, it‘s looking forward and it‘s trickster tendencies all rolled up into one narrative. It‘s metaphor and it‘s literal.”
pickThis nominee for the Hugo Best Graphic Work deals with the very weighty issues of racism and immigration but is also loads of fun to read, with some wonderful alien characters. #hugoawards #hugo2020
Despite having to work a full day, I've still managed 3 hours and 5 minutes of reading, so not a bad start to the #24B4Monday readathon.
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Sooo looking forward to reading Nnedi Okorafor's graphic novel! #blackvoices
Nnedi Okorafor writes it & I will read it. I‘ve had my eye on this for awhile & when I found it on Book Outlet, I snapped it up along with a few other things. Picked up the Batman comics for my son (he is going through comics & books faster than I can keep up #goodproblem), & Batgirl because I haven‘t read anything written by Gail Simone & I feel this is an oversight that should be corrected. Finally, Wonder Woman...because Wonder Woman. ❤️📚❤️
pickLaGuardia was everything I hoped for and more. The story was engaging and interesting and emotional and funny. The characters were sweet and interesting and felt deeply real. The art is fabulous. I highly recommend this one.
I'm also counting this for the Reading Women Challenge 2020, for the task calling for Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism.
pickFor Boxing Day, I went through my wish list and got some of the books on it on sale. This was one of them and arrived yesterday. Such a good read! It is about aliens and how they are mistreated and not wanted around, etc. So, really it is about people already on this planet and how they are treated. Nnedi just went about it from a science fiction viewpoint. It's an important book and I definitely recommend checking it out!
pickI had the pleasure of receiving an ARC from the publisher through Edelweiss. As usual Okorafor provides historical context for a modern problem in the guise of science fiction. As expected, I enjoyed the story. I wish we could spend more time with the characters like Let Me Live. There are so many questions, but I guess how we readers get hooked.
I finished the year with Nnedi Okorafor‘s LaGuardia (I liked it but it felt was too short) and here are my 2018 year end stats:
# of books: 74
# of pages: 18,611
Fiction: 87%
Women authors: 61%
Graphic novels: 27%
Borrowed from library: 51%
I‘m pretty happy with this but I was trying to read 20,000 pages and more of what I own and not borrow so much.
