Tiny Navajo Reads: Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Hey guys, I’m back with another review for you all! I hope that the start of Fall is all that you’ve thought it would be. I quite enjoy Fall, it’s one of my favorite seasons of the year, and it’s always kind of renews me when this time of year comes around. Anyway, onto the review!

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

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This is the second time that I’ve read this book and I honestly forgot how good of a book it’s was in between those times! The characters are wonderful, I can relate to Lily, wanting to be “a good Chinese girl,” I can relate to Kathleen wanting to do something that is very much against her assigned gender (being an airplane pilot), I empathize with these two girls so much as they struggle to figure out who they are during the Red Scare.

For Lily, all she wants to do is to make through high school with as little disruption as possible. And she’s set to do that with help from her best friend Shirley, who also lives in Chinatown with Lily. But all of that kind of grinds to a halt as soon as Lily wants to be friends with Kathleen, or Kath, as she likes to be called. Things with Lily and Kath start to become more than just friends as Lily’s friendship with Shirley seems to implode for reasons that Lily doesn’t fully understand, though she knows it has to deal with Kath and “people like her.” All of this is going on as Lily’s father is trying to protect himself and his community from the government, and still be an upright citizen as more and more Chinese-Americans are suspected of being a part of the Communist Party.

For Lily, a lot of this book is about figuring out who she is in conjunction of who her family is, who her family wants her to be, who her friends want her to be, and trying to make all of it make sense. I love seeing her trying to figure all of this out though. I love that she becomes more herself as she spends time with Kath, and time at the Telegraph Club, a lesbian bar in San Francisco. She finds out about this world where woman can dress differently, act differently, and love differently than society says they have to and she finds that this is more of what she wants in the world, as well as who she is. She finds connections with others like her, those who are either hiding a part of themselves, or are trying to be as bold and as loud as they can without the support of their families.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club gives a small amount of insight into a world I will never really know. I like that we have a young couple trying to figure out their place in the world, and I like that we have a family that truly loves Lily, but are not the best at showing it at a time where they are already different from everyone else, so being even more different is too much. I would highly recommend giving this book a read if you haven’t already.

What do you think of historical fiction? What part of history interests you most?

Tiny Navajo Reads: Elatose

A little late today, but that’s what happens! Not gonna dwell on that too long as we have another book to review today. And I think one of my favourite aspects about this book is that the main character is both asexual and I believe aromantic and she is Native American, Lipan Apache to be specific, which is awesome in my view. But, let’s get to the actual review!

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

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What if the world after this one was real? And what is those who lived there could come and visit us here? This is essentially the questions asked and touched on when Elatsoe’s cousin is found dead on a road that he doesn’t travel. So, when Elatsoe is visited by her cousin before he finally crosses over to the other side, asking for her help in finding out what happened to him, she takes up the responsibility and makes her way down to Texas.

It’s there when things start to get even weirder than a girl and her ghost dog hanging around town. There seems to be vampires that are guarding/looking after the head surgeon; there’s a psychic that seems to tell a different story than is there; the inhabitants stare and focus a little too much on Elatsoe and her friend as they investigate, and this is just the start of it all.

Overall, this is a good story and one that drops in on what the would could look like should ghosts and other supernatural entities would look like wandering the world from a Native American perspective and I enjoyed it. I also liked that Elatsoe was asexual and aromantic, though I think the actual writing of that part could have been handled a little bit better, but I’m not a writer so what do I know. *shrug* I really enjoyed this book and I was glad to read another book with a Native American main character who fully embraced her heritage and used it to help her family and figure out the mystery of what actually happened to her cousin.

Have you read any books with Native American or ace-spectrum main characters? What did you like, or dislike, about them?

Tiny Navajo Reads: Of Silver and Shadow

Of Silver and Shadow by Jennifer Gruenke

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*Published February 16, 2021 by North Star Editions*

What can I say? Sometimes the book wins and sometimes it doesn’t…this time it didn’t.

Of Silver and Shadow by Jennifer Gruenke

Ren Kolins is a silver wielder—a dangerous thing to be in the kingdom of Erdis, where magic has been outlawed for a century. Ren is just trying to survive, sticking to a life of petty thievery, card games, and pit fighting to get by. But when a wealthy rebel leader discovers her secret, he offers her a fortune to join his revolution. The caveat: she won’t see a single coin until they overthrow the King.

Behind the castle walls, a brutal group of warriors known as the King’s Children is engaged in a competition: the first to find the rebel leader will be made King’s Fang, the right hand of the King of Erdis. And Adley Farre is hunting down the rebels one by one, torturing her way to Ren and the rebel leader, and the coveted King’s Fang title.

But time is running out for all of them, including the youngest Prince of Erdis, who finds himself pulled into the rebellion. Political tensions have reached a boiling point, and Ren and the rebels must take the throne before war breaks out.

Eh…that’s really all I can say about this book. It didn’t surprise me, it didn’t have anything really original to say. I have read a story like this what feels like a million times. This is basically Brandon Sanderson’s forte and he does it soooo much better.

The only really unique thing about this book is the magic system. I like the idea of silver being a thing to be manipulated and used in a multitude of ways. And there was creativity in the way that it was used…that’s about it. This also feels like the beginning of a series. I won’t be continuing this series, just so you know. I do believe there are better books out there that deal with this same premise.

Tiny Navajo Reads: Amelia Unabridged

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

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*Published February 16, 2021 by Wednesday Books*

The cover of this book is what really drew me in, it is dark and evocative and I needed to know what was going on!

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

Sparks fly between two teens as they grapple with grief, love, and the future.

Eighteen-year-old Amelia Griffin is obsessed with the famous Orman Chronicles, written by the young and reclusive prodigy N. E. Endsley. They’re the books that brought her and her best friend Jenna together after Amelia’s father left and her family imploded. So when Amelia and Jenna get the opportunity to attend a book festival with Endsley in attendance, Amelia is ecstatic. It’s the perfect way to start off their last summer before college.

In a heartbeat, everything goes horribly wrong. When Jenna gets a chance to meet the author and Amelia doesn’t, the two have a blowout fight like they’ve never experienced. And before Amelia has a chance to mend things, Jenna is killed in a freak car accident. Grief-stricken, and without her best friend to guide her, Amelia questions everything she had planned for the future.

When a mysterious, rare edition of the Orman Chronicles arrives, Amelia is convinced that it somehow came from Jenna. Tracking the book to an obscure but enchanting bookstore in Michigan, Amelia is shocked to find herself face-to-face with the enigmatic and handsome N. E. Endsley himself, the reason for Amelia’s and Jenna’s fight and perhaps the clue to what Jenna wanted to tell her all along.

This is a bittersweet book and story. I can completely feel for Amelia, when she wants, no dreams of meeting the author of her favourite book series, N.E. Endsley. But when her chance is denied, she’s upset, obviously. It’s not till she finds out that her best friend and life-line since they met at a bookstore when they were younger, Jenna, met with N.E. Endsley right before he cancelled his book signing, that things turn sour and mad between Amelia and Jenna. Then Jenna leaves for Ireland for a workstudy/study abroad before they are to start college in the Fall, without them really patching things up. It’s then that Amelia learns that Jenna was killed in a car crash in Ireland, and now they can really never make up. Grief kind of destroys Amelia for a while until she gets a mysterious package from an bookstore in Michigan that she didn’t order. When she sees that it’s a special edition of the Orman Chronicles, she decides to head up to Michigan to see what she can find out about this special edition.

Once there she finds that there is a lot more going on than just a mysterious package. And it there in Michigan that she finds N.E. Endsley as well. This blows Amelia’s mind, but also reminds her that Jenna got to meet him before her death. With all the emotions and memories and “what if’s” running through her head, it takes Amelia a while in order to start piecing things together. Part of that is just learning about this new area, and part of it is learning about how to deal with the grief of never seeing or talking to her friend again. As Amelia starts to make friends with Nolan and everyone else she meets in Michigan, she starts to learn that while the life plan that Jenna had set up for them to go to the same college, for Amelia to become a college professor in English (a steady job, unlike photography), that that idea isn’t quite what Amelia wanted. But how does she reconcile what she wants with what her friend and her parents are kind of decided would happen, especially now that she is the one left alive to carry on the plan?

Love, grief, pain, and learning how to heal are all topics touched on in this story. It’s about finding the life that you are meant to live, and not living the life that has been laid out for you with all the good intentions of the world. It’s about learning to lean on others for support and learning that you can’t always hide away parts of yourself, even if you feel like you need to. This is story that I’ll say you should look towards reading if just to try and process your own grief, or learn what grief can do to a person. And it is a sweet story with bitter elements, so I would recommend this book in general. What are some bittersweet stories that you have read? What brought them to your attention? Comment below and let me know! You never know when you need a bittersweet story.

Tiny Navajo Reads: The Iron Raven

The Iron Raven (The Iron Fey: Evenfall #1) by Julie Kagawa

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*Published February 9, 2021 by Inkyard Press*

This sounded really interesting to me as I was browsing books to read! I will give it that, it had a really interesting premise…I just wasn’t a part of this world to really know much of the backstory and history of a lot of the characters.

The Iron Raven by Julie Kagawa

You may have heard of me…

Robin Goodfellow. Puck. Prankster, joker, raven, fool… King Oberon’s right-hand jester from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The legends are many, but the truth will now be known as never before, as Puck finally tells his own story and faces a threat to the lands of Faery and the human world unlike any before.

With the Iron Queen Meghan Chase and her prince consort, Puck’s longtime rival Ash, and allies old and new by his side, Puck begins a fantastical and dangerous adventure not to be missed or forgotten.

Like I said earlier, this has such a interesting premise! I love it when authors take bits of well-known stories and create a history behind them that isn’t really known. I love it when those stories then take on a life of their own and give a second chance to characters that may have been forgotten. That’s kind of what I was hoping out of this one, and while I did get that…I also felt like I was missing out on a lot of things. There is history behind these characters in this book that I am not privy to. History that takes place in other series and other books. This isn’t always a bad thing, especially when a book chooses to focus on other characters in that series’ universe in order to keep telling stories. But when you also have characters in them that you should understand what’s going on, then you feel like you’re part of a group of friends that have a stockpile of inside jokes that you have no idea what they’re going on about. That’s what this book felt like.

I also don’t fault the book for that though, as this is the first Julia Kagawa book I’ve read. I didn’t know that there was a whole other set of books that I probably should have read to know a little bit more of what was going on. I would love to have read her previous books as this one is really well written. I love reading about Robin Goodfellow/Puck, learning a little bit more about his backstory, learning how he feels for Meghan and how that translates to how he feels about Ash along with his history with Ash before they even met Meghan. I also love how much Robin Goodfellow and Puck felt like different characters, almost like different personalities, like the different between a person in high school who has matured over 15-ish years (roughly, you know, fey creatures and all that).

This was a really well written book and I enjoyed all the characters, I just felt like I was missing out on a lot of backstory and history and I’m not as inclined to keep reading the series. But if you’ve read Julie Kagawa’s books before this, then I think you’ll enjoy this one as well. What have been some books that you’ve read that you’ve liked, but felt like you were missing out on something? Did you keep reading, or did you decide to move onto others book? Comment below and let me know, I’m curious how many others have felt this way as well.

Tiny Navajo Reads: The Awakening of Malcolm X

The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson

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*Published January 5, 2021 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)*

A fictionalized biography and look into the life of Malcolm X, an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. I knew very little about his life, only what I remember from American History in high school and it’s not that much. This book gave me a look into his life that I never would have known otherwise.

The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson

The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist’s adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson.

No one can be at peace until he has his freedom.

In Charlestown Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares, Malcolm drifts through days unsure of his future. Slowly, he befriends other prisoners and writes to his family. He reads all the books in the prison library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam. Malcolm grapples with race, politics, religion, and justice in the 1940s. And as his time in jail comes to an end, he begins to awaken — emerging from prison more than just Malcolm Little: Now, he is Malcolm X.

Here is an intimate look at Malcolm X’s young adult years. While this book chronologically follows X: A Novel, it can be read as a stand-alone historical novel that invites larger discussions on black power, prison reform, and civil rights.

A fictionalization of the years that Malcolm X spent in jail, written by his daughter, we see the process through which Malcolm Little became Malcolm X. I don’t know much about Malcolm X, other than what was taught in my high school classes and that wasn’t much. I also didn’t seek out much information about him after I graduated. I knew that he was a powerful figure and ally in the Civil Rights Movement and that he was a powerful speaker. But reading and learning more about him through this book, I can see how much I have missed out knowing about this man who became the voice for the Nation of Islam. And it’s fascinating!

I want and NEED to read more about him as well as read his own work as well! I need to know more about this man who was a hustler before jail, but became an eloquent speaker and a powerful speaker while in jail and after he left. What changes did he make and how did this influence his life?! I can see why a lot of people would be scared of the way Malcolm X talked and spoke. Even just in writing, and not even his own writing, he was persuasive and educated, once he decided to start educating himself. I do know that I need to know more about my country’s history, and one way to do that is to read the words of those that spoke out against the policies of the times. Especially during a time when it seems that we haven’t come further than where we were in the ’50s considering equality and equity in the way people are treated in this world.

What books have you read that have influenced what you wanted to read next, to educate yourself on next? Have you followed through on those promptings? Comment below and let me know! I’m curious to see if I’ll follow through on my own promptings.

Tiny Navajo Writes: April Update

Hey guys! It’s the first Monday in May and that means it’s time for the April Update! This is strange how quickly April flew by. I feel like I must have missed have the month because I can’t seem to find where half of my days went throughout this past month…either way, because it’s the start of a new month, that means it’s time for a quick update on what I read throughout the month of April and what my goals for May will be. So, here we go!

So, I read a total of 10 books in April; 1 audiobook, 6 books, 1 graphic novel, and 1 short story. The titles for this month were The Switch by Beth O’Leary, The Iron Raven by Julie Kagawa, Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher, Of Silver and Shadow by Jennifer Gruenke, The Hazards of Love Vol. 1: Bright World by Stan Stanley, Lore by Alexandra Bracken, Girlhood: Teens Around the World in Their Own Voices by Masuma Ahuja, Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer, The Knockout by S.A. Patel, and A Shot at Normal by Marisa Reichardt.

I don’t have any reviews written up for these yet, so keep an eye for them when they do come out. I do plan to have some ARCs read and reviewed as I’m a bit behind on them. I should keep up on those a bit better, but I also have other books I need to be reading…I’m working on it, let’s say that.

So, what are you reading goals and plans for the month of May? Do you have anything special planned? Comment below and let me know! It’s my birthday month, so I do have a small stay-cation planned for myself, so I’m looking forward to that! 🙂

Happy reading!

Tiny Navajo Reads: Muted

Muted by Tami Charles

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*Published February 2, 2021 by Scholastic Press*

TW: RAPE, GASLIGHTING, MANIPULATION, EATING DISORDER, DEATH, DRUG ABUSE/ADDICTION

Oh boy…this was a hard book to read, not because of the writing, which was beautiful and made sense for this type of novel, but for the subject matter at hand…

Muted by Tami Charles

A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds! Be bold. Get seen. Be Heard.

For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown.

So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean “Mercury” Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights — plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the lies the girls have to tell are all worth it.

Until they’re not.

Denver begins to realize that she’s trapped in Merc’s world, struggling to hold on to her own voice. As the dream turns into a nightmare, she must make a choice: lose her big break, or get broken.

Inspired by true events, Muted is a fearless exploration of the dark side of the music industry, the business of exploitation, how a girl’s dreams can be used against her — and what it takes to fight back.

This is probably one of the hardest books I’ve read this year. Hard because of the subject matter, hard because this shit still happens in our day and age, hard because there will always be predators out there willing to take advantage of those who just want their shot. Hard, because there are girls like Denver and Dali who are muted and gagged, their voices lost in the chaos of the world.

The more I read this book, the more horrified and terrified I became. Which is probably the point of this particular book. I love Denver, Dali, and Shak and all that they do to try and make it big in the music world. I love that they race after their dreams. What I do not love is that Merc, their idol, their discover-er (words >.<), the one who reaches out to lift them up, is only doing so because it benefits him, and not them. He takes from them not only their words, but their voices, their bodily autonomy.

I love that while Denver and Dali are just trying to reach their dreams, to provide for their families and to find a reason why they are talented in a particular way, they are blinded by their needs and wants to see what is truly going on. Which is the way, when you’re working to get what you want, what you believe to be yours, you will fight to blind yourself to the harm it is causing you and others around you.

All Denver and Dali wish to do is to be their superstar selves, they want the world to hear their music, their words, their loves of the world and touch others who may be feeling the same way.

Muted is about how teenage girls allow themselves to be muted for the chance to make it big in a world larger than their own. It’s about learning to listen to yourself and knowing when something isn’t right. It’s about taking back your voice when once you thought you had lost it. It’s about taking back what is yours, all yours. The price for fame is much to high and, eventually, you can no longer pay it. So, what do you do after that?

Tiny Navajo Reads: Concrete Rose

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

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*Published January 12, 2021 by Balzer+Bray*

A look into the lives of of Starr’s parents before we knew them in The Hate U Give and how they much the choices they made influenced the choices Starr and her friends/family made in their book.

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.

If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison.

Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control.

Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father.

Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different.

When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can’t just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.

What stuck out to me most when I started reading this book was how unprepared Maverick was to become a parent. How much it took out of him to start looking after a person that he brought into this world. Not on purpose, mind you, he was being safe, but that doesn’t always count for much. I could feel his terror at having to raise a little human being as well as his want to be a good parent, even if it means that things that he had planned for his life didn’t turn out the way he initially planned them to do.

We see how much this unexpected part of life caught up to him and how much this requires him to change his outlook on life and his ability to work to provide for his son, whom he has named Seven, and to help out his mother as much as possible. We see Mav start to try to change, to get out of King Lord life and to live cleanly in order to be there for his children. Yes, children, as this is when he and Lisa (Starr’s mother) get pregnant. This time they were not smart. This time, Maverick did not think. This time, it isn’t thought through and it gets both of them. And now with two kids to provide for, because Maverick will provide for his kids, he starts to make dumb decisions, decisions that could end him up in the exact same place his own father is, prison.

This story is all about learning how to make choices that will make your life better. Not your friends’ lives, not your parents’ lives, but your life. It means making hard choices in order to make sure that you are there for those you love and are able to support them in ways that will make them proud of you. It’s about choosing to become a better version of yourself and learning from your mistakes. And Maverick makes a lot of mistakes in this novel, you can see it and I can see it. I could see where his thoughts were going and I just wanted to reach through the novel and just shake him, saying “Don’t do it!!!” But it’s not my life, it is Maverick’s, and those were his choices to make.

Along with those choices though, you have to be willing to follow through with the consequences. You can choose your choices, but you cannot choose your consequences. Those you are stuck with and how you respond to the consequences of your choices will show you what kind of person you are. Maverick starts to learn this and starts to learn that if he wants to be a better parent than his father, to be there for his kids as they actually grow up, then he needs to make the choices that will keep him there. And he has the support system to do so. I loved seeing how much support and love Mav has, not only with his family, but his extended family, his mother, the couple next door that own the small grocery in their neighborhood, everyone who is willing to stand up and give Mav a chance to learn and give him the support he needs in order to learn.

This book has a lot of good things going for it. It shows a look into the lives of teenagers who are still trying to be kids and have fun, but need to grow up quick in order to become parents. It shows that there is love and support everywhere you need it, and it shows that you can choose to do better and be better. It’s all up to you what you decide to do in your own life.

Tiny Navajo Reads: Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

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*Published January 19, 2021 by Dutton Books for Young Readers*

*TW: PARENTAL ABUSE, HOMOPHOBIA, RACISM, RACIAL SLURS, INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA, DEPORTATION*

This was a good look into what life was like for WLW in the 1950s.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare.

“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

To learn to love in a time of unrest for you and your family is always hard. It’s even harder to do when you learn that who you love is considered perverted/strange/not real and your family is in danger of being deported for political affiliations that are considered dangerous. For Lilly though, this is exactly what is happening as she comes of age in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1954. You can feel the tension and unrest that comes from living in a time where gay/lesbian bars were raided and the Red Scare was in full effect.

As Lilly learns to navigate these new waters, not only of exploring and finding her sexual identity and awareness are shared by others, that she is not strange, but belief in herself as a Chinese American young woman is a strong flame burning inside of her, Lilly also learns that sometimes family and friends will say things that are hurtful and harmful, even if they’re said with the best of intentions.

Learning about yourself is always scary, especially when you’re learning that you’re something that has been deemed wrong, or inappropriate by society. Yet Lilly is still willing to learn about this part of herself, and learn more about those women who love other women, that women can dress masculine, and many other things. And she learns that there are many other women out there like her, and they meet in clubs like the Telegraph Club. There is space carved out for people like her, by people like her; all she needs to do is find those spaces and learn how to fill in those spaces.

For a lot of us, and Lilly also learns this, we need to learn to take control of our lives and live them the way we want to live them. We cannot live for other people, we can only live for ourselves and we can only do that when we are true to ourselves. We cannot be scared to be ourselves, else we will never learn what the world has in store for us. It is terrifying and we may lose some people along the way, but if we do, then we don’t need those people in our lives. How have you learned to let yourself live as yourself? What have you learned about yourself in this way? Comment below and let me know! I’m still learning how to live for myself, but I’m getting closer and closer each day!