Banner of the Damned. Sherwood Smith.

Smith, Sherwood. Banner of the Dammed. Daw Books, 2012.

I've never read anything by Sherwood Smith before, and I can't entirely remember why I put this particular book on my Amazon wishlist (and thus ended up with a copy of it for Christmas this year). I think it might have had to do with liking the intro:

The scribes have three rules.
First Rule: Do not interfere.
Second Rule: Keep The Peace.
Third Rule: Tell the truth as we see it (3).

#1. Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. Spiegel & Grau, 2015.

Written in the epistolary style as a letter to his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me has pretty much become a sensation. Everyone's reading it. I've received multiple copies from people who are pretty sure I'm going to love it (and I do). I took a copy to the doctor's office, and my doctor said, "Oh, I'm reading that, too! Very interesting perspective."