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Yaba Badoe

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/yaba-badoe/

Yaba Badoe è una giornalista, scrittrice, regista e sceneggiatrice britannica di origine ghanese.

È l’autrice di Black and White (1987), indagine realizzata a telecamere nascoste sul razzismo a Bristol; I Want Your Sex (1991), documentario che esplora immagini e miti che circondano la sessualità nera nell’arte, nella letteratura, nel cinema e nella fotografia occidentali e la serie Voluntary Service Overseas del 2002.

Con Amina Mama, ha diretto e co-prodotto The Witches of Gambaga, che ha scatenato grande dibattito internazionale, premiato come miglior documentario al Black International Film Festival del 2010, ha ricevuto il secondo premio al FESPACO, l’anno successivo.

Nel 2014 ha firmato The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo, la più famosa poeta, drammaturga e politica ghanese.

Il suo primo romanzo è stato True Murder del 2009. Il suo racconto The Rivals è compreso nell’antologia African Love Stories, a cura di Ama Ata Aidoo.

Ha anche scritto tre libri per l’infanzia e collaborato con l’antologia New Daughters of Africa del 2019.

Nata a Tamale, in Ghana nel 1955, giovanissima si è trasferita in Gran Bretagna, dove si è laureata al King’s College di Cambridge.

Ha lavorato presso il Ministero degli Affari Esteri in Ghana, prima di tornare nel Regno Unito e prendere una seconda laurea.

La sua carriera nel giornalismo è cominciata come apprendista presso la BBC, emittente con cui ha realizzato diversi importanti servizi.

Ha, successivamente, prodotto e diretto documentari per tutti i principali canali televisivi britannici.

È stata ricercatrice e visiting professor presso l’Institute of African Studies dell’Università del Ghana dove ha realizzato film per l’Unità audiovisiva.

L’amore per il cinema è nato sin da bambina, l’approccio al documentario è, invece, iniziato quando lavorava presso il Dipartimento di Studi per lo Sviluppo della Sussex University. Ha avvertito l’esigenza di esportare, fuori dalle mura accademiche, idee come la subordinazione delle donne nel processo di sviluppo, le conseguenze del neoliberismo, le storie della colonizzazione e dell’imperialismo, nella convinzione che il cinema può galvanizzare l’opinione pubblica e cambiare gli atteggiamenti. Quando realizzo documentari uso la mia sensibilità per trasmettere le storie e le emozioni di altre persone. Inventare storie è un piacere che si riserva alla narrativa.

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Do any of you celebrate midsummer. In Finland it's a pretty big thing. People usually go to the countryside to build bonfires and do barbecue.

Happy midsummer weekend to everyone who celebrates. 😀

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She smiles, a jigsaw of fire and stars reflected in her eyes, and she stretches a dimpled hand to touch the moon.

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars, Yaba Badoe

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A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe

Fourteen-year-old Sante isn’t sure where she comes from, but she has a recurring dream of escaping a shipwreck in a sea chest as a baby with her lifelong companion, golden eagle Priss. In the chest was an African bamboo flute, a drum and a dagger inlaid with diamonds. Sante was found and raised by Mama Rose, leader of a nomadic group of misfits and gypsies. They travel around contemporary southern Europe, living off-grid and performing circus tricks for money. Sante grows up alongside two twins, knife-thrower Cat and snake-charmer Cobra, whom she is in love with. During a performance in Cadiz, Sante recognises two men from her dream. They come after her to retrieve the treasures from the sea chest. Sante finds out that she is an Ashanti princess, whose parents probably perished in the shipwreck. After Cat rescues a beautiful red-haired girl called Scarlett from a gang, Mama Rose’s band are forced to flee the city. But Sante and Cobra stay behind, determined to find out more about her family and where she came from.

Disclaimer: I received a copy free from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Fourteen-year-old Sante doesn’t know where she comes from and is haunted by a past she doesn’t remember. The only clue she has is a recurring dream where she is escaping a shipwreck in a chest as a baby, along with her companion, an eagle named Priss. Along with this chest, she was found with treasures – an African bamboo flute, a drum, and a dagger, along with diamonds. Sante was found and raised by Mama Rose and her nomadic family who make a living as circus street performers. During one of their performances, Sante recognises two men from her dream. She wants to find out about her past and where she came from, and they want to retrieve to treasures she was found with. But her past and these men lead her down a dangerous road.

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars was a magical and imaginative novel. Yaba Badoe’s writing is very descriptive and creates vivid and rich imagery. Yaba Badoe seamlessly blends magical realism full of  Ghanaian mythology and folklore with a contemporary European setting also full of circus elements. The story is well balanced with two different stories running side by side, smoothly fleeting between flashbacks of the shipwreck and Sante discovering her past and connecting to her African roots and family, but also a story featuring Sante tackling a human trafficking group.

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars discusses some really important topics such as human trafficking, underage sex work, child exploitation, and the dangers and desperation that comes with being a refugee. I would like to give a warning though – After surviving a shipwreck Sante finds a new family with Mama Rose, a Romani woman and they are street performers doing circus tricks etc, and the g**** slur is used and they faced a lot of discrimination and hatred which wasn’t called out in the text.

I loved the family dynamics that Sante had with both her surrogate family, and her biological family who she connected with through spirits and dreams. Sante’s search for her identity and belonging made A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars a powerful and emotive read.

Also, the artwork is beautiful and the designer definitely deserves high praise. There is also a good side f/f relationship which was a pleasant surprise.

Overall, A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars is a powerful and evocative debut full of rich imagery, and I am excited to see what Yaba Badoe writes next.

Rating: ★★★★☆

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A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars (Yaba Badoe)

4.5 stars "Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them: A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall... if Sante is to tell their story and her own." 'Strangers pitch up on our shores and we herd them into camps. They come in broken boats and we let them drown.' I honestly don't think there is a more important time to read this book than right now. With the political turmoil of Brexit and the resurgence of the far right, people seem to be forgetting that the desperate people trying to make their way into Europe are humans deserving of all the rights that we so take for granted. This book is about people whose only option is to attempt to cross the Mediterranean, who know it might kill them, who know they might fall into the hands of traffickers, but also know that it is the only choice that they have left. Honestly, with many peoples heads turned by the rhetoric plied by politicians, that we must strengthen borders and turn people away from our gates, I hope that people read this book and feel their opinions change. Sante is one of the younger narrators that I've read recently, only fourteen, but her voice is so authentic that I feel it can be enjoyed by young and old alike. Badoe has a gorgeous way of writing, fluid and magical and, honestly, I didn't even feel the pages passing, it was like a wonderful dream. It's one of those books which is almost surreal, but you never feel the need to question it, it all makes sense in its own strange way. The closest category I've found when trying to explain it is Animist Realism, a genre of African Literature close to the Latin concept of Magical Realism, which is born from animism, a belief that everything on earth, be it rock, animals, weather or thought has its own spiritual essence. It's the perfect genre for Sante's story, allowing her to deal with the death of her parents, her exploration of the little she knows of them, and the ancestral echoes of the treasures that were left alongside her in the sea chest. 'The baby gurgles, entranced by the rough play of water as a wave steadies her boat. She smiles, a jigsaw of stars and fire reflected in her eyes, and she stretches a dimpled hand to touch the moon.' This book is so gorgeous. It's rich and vibrant, filled with lush descriptions and poetic prose. Where in many books the inclusion of an animal companion can risk infantilising the story, Sante's golden eagle felt more like a guardian spirit, a anthromorphisation of her strength and determination. It was a clever decision to balance the cold hard realities of the book against more whimsical prose. It’s the literary equivalent of casting fragrant rose petals over a rotting corpse, the scent only become more cloying, more horrific in the juxtaposition. The book is never graphic in its horror, it does not linger over the sordid details of what the traffickers do to their captives, but it does show the aftereffects of the trauma, the trembling fear and pain of survivors. It's been a long time since I was so filled with hate for a villain, but 'The Captain', the head of the trafficking ring, is so powerful and vile that it honestly sent a shiver up my spine when he was first introduced. The half star that I removed is for pacing, there was a bit of a lull at about the 60% mark that I felt was unnecessary and was the first time whilst reading the book that I felt a little bored. I was also a little confused about the use of the word 'gypsy' in text. Multiple times throughout the book Sante describes the word being used as a slur against other members of her circus family and yet once or twice she uses it to describe them herself. There's also a random paragraph where Mama Rose, the head of the circus is described as dressing up in a kimono and white face powder for 'thinking time'…whilst Mama Rose is a white woman. They're small aberrations, but unnecessary ones that could easily be removed from the final product with no change to the plot itself. Conclusion 'A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars' is a rich, vibrant young adult contemporary with a bright magical sparkle, that deals with incredibly important and relevant issues. It's a short book, only 256 pages, which I'd genuinely love as many people to read as possible, because it's the perfect foil to the dehumanisation of migrants that is horribly common in modern media. 'A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars' is out on the 7th of September, definitely one to be added to your 'to be read'! Many thanks to Head of Zeus Books for a copy in return for an honest review! As this is a review of an advanced review copy, quotations may be subject to change in the final copy. Review originally posted at Moon Magister Reviews.

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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

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Rules: Tag people you'd like to know better.

thanks @theslytherinterran for tagging me

1. dogs or cats?

dogs, im alergic to cats

2. youtube celebrities or normal celebrities?

normal

3. if you could live anywhere where would that be?

camp half-blood

4. disney or dreamworks?

disney, although i looove dreamworks

5. favourite childhood tv shows?

avatar: the last airbender; danny phantom; shake it up; tmnt

6. the movie you're looking forward to the most in 2020?

ww84; mulan; black widow and birds of prey

7. favourite book you read in 2019

jigsaw of fire and stars by yaba badoe

8. marvel or dc?

marvel

9. if you choose marvel favourite member of the X-Men? if you choose DC favourite justice league member?

x-men: storm

10. night or day?

night, becuase i can sleep

11. favourite pokemon?

pikachu

12. top 5 bands/artists

lucky daye, the vamps, 5sos, rachel chinouriri, chloe x halle

13. top 10 books

pjo and the last olympian; hoo and the house of hades; kc and the serpents shadow and all the other books in that universe. i cant think of anything else

14. top 4 movies

princess and the frog; black panther; rise of the guardians; kung fu panda 2; pacific rim (that's five but whatever)

15. america or europe?

europe

16. tumblr or twitter?

tumblr

17. favorite vacation destination?

cape town and lesotho

18. favourite youtuber?

dylan is in trouble; fezile mbokazi (that's my friend, im in one of her vids. go subscribe and make me famous lol)

19. favourite author

rick riordan

20. tea or coffee?

tea

21. otp?

spideychelle

22. do you play any instrument/sing?

i mean not well. there's a piano at my granny's house and i play it sometimes (badly) and i think we all sing

tagging: @westallensss @mypassionsarenysins @spiderman-homecomeme

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A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe . Only three more sleeps until @yalc_uk! I’m very excited to go but also a little nervous 😅 Remembering it from last year it took me a little while to get used to the crowds (and the heat) and get over the initial shock of meeting *actual* writers in real life! Who else is going this year? . . . #ajigsawoffireandstars #yababadoe #zephyrbooks #bookcoverdesign #bookcover #beautifulbookcovers #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyfiction #yalc #bookstagrammer #bookstagramit #bookdragon #booknerd #booksandfashion https://www.instagram.com/p/B0R772Dgr8V/?igshid=10baas4viicx8

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A Jigsaw Of Fire And Stars Review

A Jigsaw Of Fire And Stars Review

This was a book that I bought on a whim, and it paid off. The story and the characters were really interesting and intriguing.

I liked the idea of having a story about an immigrant with no known past who is not bothered by it too much. While we do not see this a lot – the plot of the story is Sante finding out about that past – but I like that it’s there. It is so refreshing to see someone who at…

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A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars #BlogTour

The A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars #BlogTour with a #guestpost by @yaba_badoe about where she #writes...

A powerful, haunting, contemporary debut that steps seamlessly from the horrors of people-trafficking to the magic of African folklore, by an award-winning Ghanaian-British filmmaker. Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she’s a…

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My stop on the "Jigswa of Fire and Stars" by Yaba Badoe

My stop on the “Jigswa of Fire and Stars” by Yaba Badoe

Don’t forget to hop on the other stops!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my stop on the “Jigsaw of Fire and Stars” where Yaba Badoe shares a TOP 5 UKYA.

Enjoy!

My Top 5 UKYA reads now and then

 The novel tells the story of Sante. Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasures. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and…

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Hi, how are you spending this weekend? Do you have a lot of plans or are you staying at home? I was supposed to spend this weekend with my boyfriend but he had to cancel.

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Not having made other plans I ended up going to Szczecin Botanical Gardens where I've never been before. I also finished reading Where the Crawdads Sing so, overall, it's been a pretty good weekend.

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A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars By Yaba Badoe @yaba_badoe @HoZ_Books #YA #Excerpt

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars By Yaba Badoe @yaba_badoe @HoZ_Books #YA #Excerpt

Today on the blog I am delighted to welcome Yaba Badoe with an extract of her novel A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars, published by Head Of Zeus on the 7th of September, 2017. A Young Adult novel tackling such subjects and human trafficking and African folklore.

Book Jacket

A powerful, haunting, contemporary debut that steps seamlessly from the horrors of people-trafficking to the magic of African…

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2018 Reading Summary...

2018 Reading Summary…

January:

Parsnips, Buttered by Joe Lycett.

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.

February:

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March:

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent.

The Mermaid and Mrs Handcock by Imogen Hermes Gowar.

April:

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman.

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury.

May:

Circe by Madeline Miller.

Good Bones by…