Lists : 5 Memorable TV Shows

Lots of Best and Worst Lists popping up, along with the beginning of the Awards season...is it just me or are there a lot of awards for things nowadays? Some of them, I'm rather skeptical of - such as The Golden Globes (although I appreciate the range of categories), the VHI's, the People's Choice, The Good Reads, and some of the lower level genre categories. The Hugos, Pulitizer, Noble and Booker Prize do have some credibility, although let's face it - 98% of this is subjective. I love it when book, film, television, music and art reviewers deign to provide us with their "objective" review of the material. Please. Who are you kidding? Although, what they don't seem to realize is all they are telling us is what is and what isn't to their taste - which in of itself is actually a really hard thing to pin-point because people's tastes change over time. I'm living proof of this fact. So what a reviewer may adore one year, they may well hate the next.

I was told today not to read so many negative book reviews - I don't need someone else's negative world view in my head. Interesting perspective. Hmm.

Not sure I can come up with a best of book list, or even memorable one. A lot of the books that I read this year bleed together, although there were a few that stood out -- although I'm not sure I'd rec them to anyone, tastes varying and all that. There was a really cool book list posted on FB of sci-fiction/fantasy novels by minority female writers which I can't find again. It started with Octavia Butler's Parable of Sower and closed with The Summer King...and no not the one in the YA fairy series. I can't find it again - dang it. This is why you need to share lists and not just like them on FB. If you know what I'm talking about? Please provide a link!

TV shows are a wee bit easier...since I've watched more of a variety in that arena this year. Of the one's I watched this year, here's the handful that I found memorable and would recommend. Note, I'm not saying they are necessarily the "BEST" out there, or that other series weren't just as good or better - this is just the list of tv shows that stood out for me.

( 5 Memorable Television Shows That I Watched This Year )

Book Lists...Ones I've Read and One's I want to Read...

Like I stated previously, not really sure I can provide a memorable list of books. Below is the five or six memorable ones that I read. I might be able to come up with ten, depends on how many I remember.

Books That I Read And Found Memorable
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Sci-Fiction and Fantasy Books That I Want to Read...

I managed to find the wickedly cool list of science fiction and fantasy novels by women of color finally.

Here it is - so I can find it again:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/akpatel462/19-must-read-science-fiction-and-fantasy-novels-by-15qst

The only book I've heard of is Octavia Butler's Parable of Sower, but all look interesting and way off the beaten track. The problem with genre, or rather the publishing industry, is that you get a lot of books that are a wee bit too much alike. These books look like they want to try something different.

1. The Parable of Sower by Octavia Butler
2. The Summer Prince by Alaye Dawn Johnson

n a futuristic Brazillian city, artist June Coast and the Summer King, Enki, team up to fuel rebellions against the government through demonstrations. As June falls in love with Enki, she will have to wrestle with the fact that he, like all Summer Kings, must die at the end of his yearlong term.

3. Who Fears Death, by Nnedi Okorafar

In a post-apocalyptic, future Africa, Onyesonwu, or “Who Fears Death,” is born to the only survivor of a slain Okeke village. Marked by skin and hair the color of sand, Onyesonwu must learn the ways of sorcery and confront her destiny — ending the genocide of her people.

4.Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes, by Kathleen Alcala

5. ASH by Malinda Lo

In this twist on the classic Cinderella tale, Ash seeks refuge from her cruel stepmother by rereading fairytales and dreaming that fairies will come steal her away. After meeting the dark fairy Sidhean, she must choose between her fairy tale dreams coming true and a burgeoning love for the King’s Huntress.

6. The Lost Girl, by Sangu Mandanna
Eva is Amarra’s “echo” — created to replace Amarra if she were to die. From far away, she spends her life studying Amarra’s habits and routines so that if something were to happen, Eva could quickly take her place in India, where echoes are illegal. But when Amarra dies in a car crash at 16, Eva is hardly prepared to risk her life and leave the life she has known.

7. Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lay

Told through the voice of a shapeshifting, ageless character who is snake, fish, girl and woman, this captivating story reaches from nineteenth-century China to the future Pacific Northwest to explore themes of oppression and resistance.


8. The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

Beginning with her escape from slavery in the 1850s, this centuries-spanning lesbian vampire fantasy follows Gilda through several of her lives in Louisiana, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, New York and even New Hampshire in 2050.

9. The Stars Change, by Mary Anne Mohanraj

In this erotic science fiction, author Mary Anne Mohanraj explores sexuality and connection through the University of All Worlds, a school on a South Asian-settled planet that hosts humans, modified humans and aliens in the midst of what may become an interstellar war.

10. The Salt Roads, by Nalo Hopkinson
Spanning centuries and continents, The Salt Roads follows Ezili, the African goddess of love, as she unites and intertwines the stories of three women: Jeanne Duval, an Afro-French entertainer; Mer, an Afro-Carribbean plantation slave and doctor; and Meritet, a Nubian prostitute.

For 9 more - follow the link: http://www.buzzfeed.com/akpatel462/19-must-read-science-fiction-and-fantasy-novels-by-15qst