I really disliked that book! I read it years ago and felt so disappointed and to this day people still rave about it...and I'm like, ugh. I nearly want to say I hated it, but that's strong language....but I hated it.
It's so funny that you dnf'd The Overstory. You mentioned that book last year or I saw it on your shelf and I was intrigued enough to look it up. I loved it so much that I bought my own copy. So thanks for the recommendation I guess? XD I felt similar about Station Eleven. I pushed through it but I wouldn't say its very memorable. I did love all they all were connected in those small ways but overall, meh. I do wonder if I knew the play King Lear more if it would have left a different impression. I personally cant't really help with scifi cause I tend towards those action-packed stories, but the book channel Kalanadi has an incredible backlist of reviews of all types of scifi, both older ones and the more "softer" orientated ones.
felt exactly the same way about Station Eleven when i read it a couple of years ago when it had just come out - like you said, it was SO mediocre plus later on in the book some ridiculous tropey stuff happens with that cult you mentioned and it was all just so cliche. i definitely didnt get all the hype around this one... if youre looking for some excellent scifi i highly recommend This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone!! its such a beautifully written scifi novella thats about a love story between two women who are enemies in a time war - it sounds kind of convoluted lol but its so well done (and character focused) and i think its right up your alley! ☺
Have you tried reading The Themis Files? It's a SF trilogy by Sylvain Neuvel, and it's told through files, interviews, and extracts from diaries and reports. It's really interesting to see every character's personality shining through this kind of documents, and the action mostly happens in between the files.
The overstory has been on my shelves for a while now after my boyfriend enjoyed it but did say it was 100 pages too long. I so thought it was your wheelhouse haha. I loved Kim JiYoung so much, the stats blended with the story was so so clever to me.
I've heard nothing but positive things about Station Eleven but have always hesitated to pick it up as I wondered if it would be a bit tropey. I don't mind some tropes but the ones you describe would irritate me as well. As always, very helpful hearing your thoughts! 😊
Thanks for the review of the Windrush book, I actually had that on my list. At the same time I saw reviews for homecoming by Colin Grant, which is more about the people settling in here, and features a lot of interviews. Maybe that's more what you're after?
Ooo love your dnf videos! I'm glad I don't have to read The Overstory now... Although did enjoy Station Eleven but kinda see why you didn't like it. Loved your review of Bleaker House 😂😂 . ...
SF recommendation: "The Vor Game" by Lois McMaster Bujold. There are a number of books in this series, but this one is good to start with. I decided to try it out by reading the first page. That was good enough that I decided to read the first chapter. By the end of the first chapter, I stop giving myself ultimatums, because I knew I was going all the way to the end no matter what. There is action, but there are also fascinating characters (especially the lead character) and lots of things to think about. I think you might enjoy it.
I totally feel you about action packed fast books - I struggle with it too. Maybe you'd like "The left hand of darkness" by Ursula K Le Guin. It's scifi, but very character driven, slow paced and focused on world building. Very beautiful descriptions of icy landscapes. And definately no sexist stereotypes - quite the contrary. I also loved (character driven scifi) "Kindred" by Octavia E Butler I read Station Eleven when it came out - and thought it was ok but overhyped
I had to laugh at your description of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe. It just sounds like the anti-Mercedes book. 😂 I’m grateful for the info on The Windrush Betrayal, particularly the author’s connection to current government. I’ve thought of picking up this book many times as I really know nothing about what happened. Now I’ll look for other books on the topic.
Mother Country, edited by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an excellent collection of accounts of the Windrush generation. I think the fact that unlike The Windrush Betrayal, this one is own voices makes a huge difference.
A scifi I loved that might be your cup of tea is The Unseen World by Liz Moore ! There's also This Is How You Lose the Time War that is slow in the way the character meet and develop their 'relationship' but also there's little explanation about what's going on. I really loved it, maybe you could check it out if you want to try another scifi novel :)
If you want to try more sci fi I highly recommend The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas and The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North! Both have a more relaxed pace but are super interesting and i connected well to the characters
I'm reading The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock, and finding it a cosy middlebrow (lowbrow with pretty language - actually some of her metaphors are distinct and stunning) read, which it maybe wasn't marketed as, they should relaunch it for lockdowns, it's the kind of thing they should sell with santa montefiore and lucinda riley in tesco
I read Station Eleven and am still at a loss why is it so beloved. My biggest personal gripe was that the author seemed to forget that the textbooks are a thing that exists. I don't know, maybe it's a cultural thing, but where I'm from, there're textbooks in every library, every university has an archive of old textbooks and everything that they publish. There was one page that annoyed me, where she laments all the lost knowledge and then praises libraries for escapism. And I'm there like, I'll eat my hat if at least Satellites for Dummies doesn't exist. But I guess in her universe all the learning is strictly online and through oral lore. Re SciFi, last one I read and enjoyed was The Vanished Birds. I had some big issues with the ending, but the rest of it was so beautiful I don't mind that much. I'm personally more DnFing than reading lately. It might be me thing or I'm picking wrong books. Last one was really annoying because I've waited for ages to read Miss Benson's Beetle. As someone with a severe war caused PTSD, I couldn't get over who the villain was and I couldn't continue. It was so unnecessary and maddening.
I liked Kim Jiyoung (gave it 4 stars), but LOVED If I had your Face by Frances Chan, which is also set in Korea and is looking at the pressures and standards women face and additionally looks at female friendship. Its just WONDERFUL. Have you read that? You might like it and it is a similar topic to KJ
I really liked Kim Jiyoung, and I wasn't loving it for the first part because of what you said about the distancing, but because it was so short I kept going, and there's a twist at the end that kind of shows why it's written in that way that really impressed me with the skill of the book.
OMG, I'm currently reading The Overstory and it might become my favorite book of the year lol. For sci fi, have you read any Jeff Vandermeer? I feel like you might like his books, they are the least fast-paced sci fi I've ever read & I really enjoy them
Oh, good, now I don’t feel bad for dnf’ing The Overstory. I started Station Eleven twice but just couldn’t do it. I was so interested in the character who was stockpiling groceries for his brother - then that storyline was just gone...I didn’t have the patience to wait for the book to circle back around to him (?does it ever?).
I really loved Station Eleven. I thought Kim Ji Young was okay, I learned a lot from the book but I didn't like how it was executed. It would have been better as a in-depth non-fiction in my opinion.
I definitely should have DNF’t The Overstory. I didn’t like it but struggled through, and even though the ending brought everything together pretty nicely, it was NOT worth it... god, all the time I spend reading that could have gone into books that suit me so much better
Quite often I feel very differently about books than you do but I totally had the same experience with Kim Jiyoung, born 1982. When I read a fiction novel I want to be shown, not told. I didn't like the sort of half-nonfiction half-novel approach of this one.
I loved Station Eleven, although agree with you, it is all the things you've mentioned. Have you read anything by Samuel Delany? I've read some of his SciFi novels and think he's quite different. But it was years ago. Maybe I've changed.
For sci-fi, I really recommend checking out Octavia Butler, Marge Percy, and Ursula K Le Guin. Generally have loads of books between them and they all write a lot of intersectional science fiction (looking at race, gender, class, etc.).
Sci fi you might like, Stories of Your Life and Exhalation both by Ted Chiang, Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie, The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, and The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist. Just to start with, lol😂 I’m also not a huge fan of fast paced action scene heavy books, so hopefully you’ll like some of these 🤗
Have you tried Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie? Love her exploration of gender. Can be a bit of a mind-twist, but I found it wonderful and not at all fast-paced scifi. Becky Chambers writes such brilliant thoughtful books - if you haven't tried her other works I definitely recommend them, and she has another book coming out next year too ^_^
I DNF'd Station Eleven. It might have been my mood, because I'm open to trying it again. I just wasn't interested at all and only got about 20 pages into it.
Windrush: they only chased up the carribbean people. Those deported to Africa both the government and campaigners washed their hands of. A homeless 72 year old woman was deported to Uganda, a county she'd never been to and knew nobody in, for instance, and left to die there presumably.
I loved the Becky Chambers hooks and haven’t. Found anything quite like them. But I have read a few interesting speculative novels and novellas that I recommend. Passing Strange by Ellen Klages - alternative history of a group of lesbian friends set in 1940s San Francisco - slightly magical, inclusive and lovely. Mem by Bethany Morrow - this a a special little book about memory and what it means to be a ‘real’ person On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard - sci fi set in distant future but built on a Chinese-Vietnamese cultural history. I hope these give you something to explore
I didn't like Station Eleven at all! I read it years ago 'cause all the hype and I felt I was the only one who didn't like it xD I'm glad you didn't keep going 'cause it really doesn't pay off.
I feel the same way about SF. Most are either too fast-paced or more focused on the hard sciences whereas I prefer quieter soft SF. You might enjoy Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (if you like weird fiction and cute murderous creatures) or Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman (if you're into anthropology and subjective reality).
I agree on The Overstory, just a horrible, horrible book. I guess I can see why the idea of it might be attractive to some readers, but I thought the writing was bad, the characters and story both uninteresting and ridiculous. Station Eleven for me started out fine but it was one of those books that I did struggle somewhat with. Though I have to say it was well worth the effort, I really loved it in the end.
omg yes i was not impressed with station eleven at all! totally agree it was so boring and had nothing remarkable about it. feels like a watered down version of stephen king's 'the stand' which is another book i gave up on because it also sucked
I dnf'd Station Eleven, but loved the Stand when I read it a hundred years ago. It's important with the Stand to read the original, and not the later un-edited version. The second one does suck
Glad to hear I’m not the only one. I thought The Overstory was simply, bad writing. Sorry to say. I heard he himself doesn’t like literature, it seems he just wanted to bring an environmental awareness by using his knowledge of biology and botany. Well said.
i can't believe your library buys things. All loans from other libraries have been stopped as too expensive and it's £1.40 to order from another branch, and as each branch is a small room mostly full of kids books and celebrity biographies and whodunnits, there's nothing to read. If you don't buy books full price and there's nothing in the charity shops (and it's all care for your pet type stuff), you won't be reading full stop
Station Eleven was great about the future it was great and the art-comic described was great and the woman writing it but the rest was soooo boring, at the start i was like 'i could read this woman if she wrote the phone directory' but it turned out she had, the first section is great but the rubbishy 'loveletters' (boringest drivel ever) and stuff, so boring, so pointless
I'm a bit baffled by your comment about not enjoying the Windrush Betrayal because Amelia Gentleman is white and the book should have been written by a non white author. The implication that is coming across here is that you feel that people should only be writing about their own race... is this in fact your opinion?
Finally someone else who DNFed Station Eleven! Felt like the only one 😂
I really disliked that book! I read it years ago and felt so disappointed and to this day people still rave about it...and I'm like, ugh. I nearly want to say I hated it, but that's strong language....but I hated it.
It's so funny that you dnf'd The Overstory. You mentioned that book last year or I saw it on your shelf and I was intrigued enough to look it up. I loved it so much that I bought my own copy. So thanks for the recommendation I guess? XD
I felt similar about Station Eleven. I pushed through it but I wouldn't say its very memorable. I did love all they all were connected in those small ways but overall, meh. I do wonder if I knew the play King Lear more if it would have left a different impression.
I personally cant't really help with scifi cause I tend towards those action-packed stories, but the book channel Kalanadi has an incredible backlist of reviews of all types of scifi, both older ones and the more "softer" orientated ones.
Hahaha, i'm glad you enjoyed The Overstory! Yes, I love Rachel's channel - she always has great sci fi recs :)
felt exactly the same way about Station Eleven when i read it a couple of years ago when it had just come out - like you said, it was SO mediocre plus later on in the book some ridiculous tropey stuff happens with that cult you mentioned and it was all just so cliche. i definitely didnt get all the hype around this one...
if youre looking for some excellent scifi i highly recommend This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone!! its such a beautifully written scifi novella thats about a love story between two women who are enemies in a time war - it sounds kind of convoluted lol but its so well done (and character focused) and i think its right up your alley! ☺
I read a few chapters of This Is How... but I found I didn't like the letter-style writing. I was confused most of the time as well. So I gave up! 😆
wait what, Station Eleven,.., 'so mediocre'?? did we read the same book...
Thanks for the rec - it sounds great!
Have you tried reading The Themis Files? It's a SF trilogy by Sylvain Neuvel, and it's told through files, interviews, and extracts from diaries and reports. It's really interesting to see every character's personality shining through this kind of documents, and the action mostly happens in between the files.
Ohh, thanks for the rec :) That sounds really interesting!
The overstory has been on my shelves for a while now after my boyfriend enjoyed it but did say it was 100 pages too long. I so thought it was your wheelhouse haha. I loved Kim JiYoung so much, the stats blended with the story was so so clever to me.
@@senioritapolyester Yes!!!
I've heard nothing but positive things about Station Eleven but have always hesitated to pick it up as I wondered if it would be a bit tropey. I don't mind some tropes but the ones you describe would irritate me as well. As always, very helpful hearing your thoughts! 😊
Thanks for the review of the Windrush book, I actually had that on my list. At the same time I saw reviews for homecoming by Colin Grant, which is more about the people settling in here, and features a lot of interviews. Maybe that's more what you're after?
Heard great things about Colin Grants book!
Yes, Ive got that one on hold at the library. It sounds much more my sort of thing 👍
I'm so glad you put my feelings about Station Eleven into words. I tried and just couldn't care less about the characters which was such a shame.
Ooo love your dnf videos! I'm glad I don't have to read The Overstory now... Although did enjoy Station Eleven but kinda see why you didn't like it. Loved your review of Bleaker House 😂😂 . ...
SF recommendation: "The Vor Game" by Lois McMaster Bujold. There are a number of books in this series, but this one is good to start with. I decided to try it out by reading the first page. That was good enough that I decided to read the first chapter. By the end of the first chapter, I stop giving myself ultimatums, because I knew I was going all the way to the end no matter what. There is action, but there are also fascinating characters (especially the lead character) and lots of things to think about. I think you might enjoy it.
I totally feel you about action packed fast books - I struggle with it too. Maybe you'd like "The left hand of darkness" by Ursula K Le Guin. It's scifi, but very character driven, slow paced and focused on world building. Very beautiful descriptions of icy landscapes. And definately no sexist stereotypes - quite the contrary. I also loved (character driven scifi) "Kindred" by Octavia E Butler
I read Station Eleven when it came out - and thought it was ok but overhyped
Thanks for the recs :)
I had to laugh at your description of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe. It just sounds like the anti-Mercedes book. 😂
I’m grateful for the info on The Windrush Betrayal, particularly the author’s connection to current government. I’ve thought of picking up this book many times as I really know nothing about what happened. Now I’ll look for other books on the topic.
Mother Country, edited by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an excellent collection of accounts of the Windrush generation. I think the fact that unlike The Windrush Betrayal, this one is own voices makes a huge difference.
A scifi I loved that might be your cup of tea is The Unseen World by Liz Moore ! There's also This Is How You Lose the Time War that is slow in the way the character meet and develop their 'relationship' but also there's little explanation about what's going on. I really loved it, maybe you could check it out if you want to try another scifi novel :)
I adore The Unseen World :D I'll have to pick up This Is How You Lose the Time War too as lots of people have recommended it :)
Really love your DNF videos :)
If you want to try more sci fi I highly recommend The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas and The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North! Both have a more relaxed pace but are super interesting and i connected well to the characters
Thanks for the recs - they both sound great :)
I'm reading The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock, and finding it a cosy middlebrow (lowbrow with pretty language - actually some of her metaphors are distinct and stunning) read, which it maybe wasn't marketed as, they should relaunch it for lockdowns, it's the kind of thing they should sell with santa montefiore and lucinda riley in tesco
I read Station Eleven and am still at a loss why is it so beloved. My biggest personal gripe was that the author seemed to forget that the textbooks are a thing that exists. I don't know, maybe it's a cultural thing, but where I'm from, there're textbooks in every library, every university has an archive of old textbooks and everything that they publish. There was one page that annoyed me, where she laments all the lost knowledge and then praises libraries for escapism. And I'm there like, I'll eat my hat if at least Satellites for Dummies doesn't exist. But I guess in her universe all the learning is strictly online and through oral lore.
Re SciFi, last one I read and enjoyed was The Vanished Birds. I had some big issues with the ending, but the rest of it was so beautiful I don't mind that much.
I'm personally more DnFing than reading lately. It might be me thing or I'm picking wrong books. Last one was really annoying because I've waited for ages to read Miss Benson's Beetle. As someone with a severe war caused PTSD, I couldn't get over who the villain was and I couldn't continue. It was so unnecessary and maddening.
Haha, I know what you mean re textbooks! Thanks for the sci fi rec. That's a shame re Miss Benson's Beetle as I thought it sounded nice and cosy!
I liked Kim Jiyoung (gave it 4 stars), but LOVED If I had your Face by Frances Chan, which is also set in Korea and is looking at the pressures and standards women face and additionally looks at female friendship. Its just WONDERFUL. Have you read that? You might like it and it is a similar topic to KJ
No, but I have that and really want to read it asap :)
I really liked Kim Jiyoung, and I wasn't loving it for the first part because of what you said about the distancing, but because it was so short I kept going, and there's a twist at the end that kind of shows why it's written in that way that really impressed me with the skill of the book.
That's interesting! Serves me right for not reading far enough for the twist, haha
OMG, I'm currently reading The Overstory and it might become my favorite book of the year lol. For sci fi, have you read any Jeff Vandermeer? I feel like you might like his books, they are the least fast-paced sci fi I've ever read & I really enjoy them
I've only read Annihilation and didn't enjoy it but maybe I should give another one of his a go.
Oh, good, now I don’t feel bad for dnf’ing The Overstory. I started Station Eleven twice but just couldn’t do it. I was so interested in the character who was stockpiling groceries for his brother - then that storyline was just gone...I didn’t have the patience to wait for the book to circle back around to him (?does it ever?).
It does kinda.
I really loved Station Eleven. I thought Kim Ji Young was okay, I learned a lot from the book but I didn't like how it was executed. It would have been better as a in-depth non-fiction in my opinion.
I definitely should have DNF’t The Overstory. I didn’t like it but struggled through, and even though the ending brought everything together pretty nicely, it was NOT worth it... god, all the time I spend reading that could have gone into books that suit me so much better
Quite often I feel very differently about books than you do but I totally had the same experience with Kim Jiyoung, born 1982. When I read a fiction novel I want to be shown, not told. I didn't like the sort of half-nonfiction half-novel approach of this one.
I loved Station Eleven, although agree with you, it is all the things you've mentioned.
Have you read anything by Samuel Delany? I've read some of his SciFi novels and think he's quite different. But it was years ago. Maybe I've changed.
No, I haven't. I'll have a look into his work - thanks for the rec :)
For sci-fi, I really recommend checking out Octavia Butler, Marge Percy, and Ursula K Le Guin. Generally have loads of books between them and they all write a lot of intersectional science fiction (looking at race, gender, class, etc.).
Thanks for the recs :)
If you are looking for some scifi-like, you can try the intuitionist by colson whitehead
Thanks for the rec :)
Sci fi you might like, Stories of Your Life and Exhalation both by Ted Chiang, Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie, The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, and The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist. Just to start with, lol😂 I’m also not a huge fan of fast paced action scene heavy books, so hopefully you’ll like some of these 🤗
Thanks so much for the recs :)
Also DNFed the Overstory and Station eleven.
I don't know if you've read it, it's Scifi and I really loved it this year, Flowers for Algernon.
Wonderful book, never leaves you..
Thanks for the rec :)
Have you tried Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie? Love her exploration of gender. Can be a bit of a mind-twist, but I found it wonderful and not at all fast-paced scifi. Becky Chambers writes such brilliant thoughtful books - if you haven't tried her other works I definitely recommend them, and she has another book coming out next year too ^_^
I really liked ancillary justice too!
No, I haven't so thanks for the rec :)
I really didn’t like the overstory as well.. finally someone who agrees on that one
Do you recommend anything by Franzen?
I've read The Corrections and found it forgettable but haven't read any others.
I DNF'd Station Eleven. It might have been my mood, because I'm open to trying it again. I just wasn't interested at all and only got about 20 pages into it.
Windrush: they only chased up the carribbean people. Those deported to Africa both the government and campaigners washed their hands of. A homeless 72 year old woman was deported to Uganda, a county she'd never been to and knew nobody in, for instance, and left to die there presumably.
Hated Station eleven. I only read about 50 pages (my cut off point) when it first came out and everyone thought it was great.
I loved the Becky Chambers hooks and haven’t. Found anything quite like them. But I have read a few interesting speculative novels and novellas that I recommend.
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages - alternative history of a group of lesbian friends set in 1940s San Francisco - slightly magical, inclusive and lovely.
Mem by Bethany Morrow - this a a special little book about memory and what it means to be a ‘real’ person
On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard - sci fi set in distant future but built on a Chinese-Vietnamese cultural history.
I hope these give you something to explore
Ohh, thanks for the recommendations! I've read MEM and didn't enjoy it unfortunately but I'll have to look into the others :)
Scifi, try Asimov’s robot series. Maybe start with I, Robot. Have a feeling you would love it and his other robot books.
Thanks for the rec :)
Sci fi rec: All Systems Red, the Murderbot Diaries
I didn't like Station Eleven at all! I read it years ago 'cause all the hype and I felt I was the only one who didn't like it xD I'm glad you didn't keep going 'cause it really doesn't pay off.
I feel the same way about SF. Most are either too fast-paced or more focused on the hard sciences whereas I prefer quieter soft SF. You might enjoy Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (if you like weird fiction and cute murderous creatures) or Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman (if you're into anthropology and subjective reality).
Ohh, thanks for the recs :)
I agree on The Overstory, just a horrible, horrible book. I guess I can see why the idea of it might be attractive to some readers, but I thought the writing was bad, the characters and story both uninteresting and ridiculous.
Station Eleven for me started out fine but it was one of those books that I did struggle somewhat with. Though I have to say it was well worth the effort, I really loved it in the end.
Have you read This Is How We Lose The Time War? It’s a very lyrical sci-fi novella. Not action packed at all.
No, but lots of people have recommended it so I'll have to give it a go :)
When you got to Boris Johnson I removed this from my TBR.
I loved Station Eleven initially with the traveling group, but then it veered off and rambled on about other people and I lost interest.
omg yes i was not impressed with station eleven at all! totally agree it was so boring and had nothing remarkable about it. feels like a watered down version of stephen king's 'the stand' which is another book i gave up on because it also sucked
I dnf'd Station Eleven, but loved the Stand when I read it a hundred years ago. It's important with the Stand to read the original, and not the later un-edited version. The second one does suck
also horses couldn't pull a truck. Sorry. But i can live with any nonsense, books to me are just fun
Station Eleven is possibly the greatest book ever written. 50 shades of grey and Mein Kampf are the only other contenders.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one. I thought The Overstory was simply, bad writing. Sorry to say. I heard he himself doesn’t like literature, it seems he just wanted to bring an environmental awareness by using his knowledge of biology and botany. Well said.
The ending of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 kind of explains why it's written that way. It's a tiny plot twist I suppose. I think it worked :)
That's interesting! Serves me right for not reading far enough for the twist, haha
i can't believe your library buys things. All loans from other libraries have been stopped as too expensive and it's £1.40 to order from another branch, and as each branch is a small room mostly full of kids books and celebrity biographies and whodunnits, there's nothing to read. If you don't buy books full price and there's nothing in the charity shops (and it's all care for your pet type stuff), you won't be reading full stop
Station Eleven was great about the future it was great and the art-comic described was great and the woman writing it but the rest was soooo boring, at the start i was like 'i could read this woman if she wrote the phone directory' but it turned out she had, the first section is great but the rubbishy 'loveletters' (boringest drivel ever) and stuff, so boring, so pointless
I'm a bit baffled by your comment about not enjoying the Windrush Betrayal because Amelia Gentleman is white and the book should have been written by a non white author. The implication that is coming across here is that you feel that people should only be writing about their own race... is this in fact your opinion?
I wanted to read a book about the windrush scandal from someone from/or a descendent of the windrush generation.