Sign in with Facebook
Victoria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Victoria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Victoria Law’s Followers (298)
5,935 books
|
224 friends
1,221 books
|
100 friends
1,890 books
|
495 friends
2,379 books
|
70 friends
2,485 books
|
118 friends
2,151 books
|
284 friends
2,038 books
|
13 friends
1,464 books
|
165 friends
More friends…
Victoria Law
Goodreads Author
Twitter
Member Since
September 2011
More books by Victoria Law…
Happy book release day to me (and my co-author)!
Today is the day that Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms officially comes out!
(Yes, I know that some of you preordered and already got your copies, but this is the Official Book Release Day.)
The ongoing pandemic prevents us from celebrating at an in-person book launch, so I wanted to publicly raise a glass (well, a coffee mug) to my amazing co-author Maya Schenwa Read more of this blog post »
(Yes, I know that some of you preordered and already got your copies, but this is the Official Book Release Day.)
The ongoing pandemic prevents us from celebrating at an in-person book launch, so I wanted to publicly raise a glass (well, a coffee mug) to my amazing co-author Maya Schenwa Read more of this blog post »
Victoria’s Recent Updates
|
Victoria Law
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
Victoria Law
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
Victoria Law
finished reading
|
|
|
Victoria Law
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
Victoria Law
is on page 24 of 240 of Swimming in Paris: Someone sent this to me as a birthday gift. It’s not a memoir I’d pick up on my own (never having heard of the author), but I’m appreciating the prose.
|
|
|
Victoria Law
is currently reading
|
|
|
Victoria Law
entered a giveaway
The Death Row Club
by V.A. Vazquez (Goodreads Author)
25 copies
available, ends on
March 09, 2026
Enter to win »
|
|
|
Victoria Law
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
If you find the narrator irritating at first, it’s intentional. keep reading. I really appreciate how Gunasekera dissects the stereotypes that the true crime genre promote (or at least seem to promote—I’m guessing since I don’t consume true crime) as ...more |
|
|
Victoria Law
wants to read
|
|
|
Victoria Law
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Challenge Fac...: Alphabet Yearly Challenge 2021 | 54 | 172 | Mar 07, 2023 01:57PM | |
| Around the Year i...: 21. A book with a title containing 6+ words | 52 | 322 | Oct 24, 2024 04:54PM |
“When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.”
― Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
― Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the dehistoricized a sense of identity and possibility. Such 'medicinal' histories seek to re-establish the connections between peoples and their histories, to reveal the mechanisms of power, the steps by which their current condition of oppression was achieved through a series of decisions made by real people to dispossess them; but also to reveal the multiplicity, creativity and perseistence of resistance among the oppressed.”
―
―
“... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.”
―
―
“from Assata's time cooking at the free breakfast program for kids:
One little girl came over to me and tapped me on the back.
'There's something wrong with your pancakes.'
'What's wrong with them?'
'They don't taste good.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
One little girl came over to me and tapped me on the back.
'There's something wrong with your pancakes.'
'What's wrong with them?'
'They don't taste good.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
“I wonder what it must have been like, what dignity it must have conferred on children of the Iroquois confederacy that any child over three was welcome to speak about matters of group importance in the tribal council.”
― Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
― Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
Literary Fiction by People of Color
— 13234 members
— last activity Mar 07, 2026 10:34PM
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Ask Isabel Allende - Wednesday, February 12th!
— 1401 members
— last activity Feb 19, 2014 01:56PM
Join us on Wednesday, February 12th for a special discussion with author Isabel Allende! Isabel will be discussing her work in English and Spanish inc ...more
Comments (showing 1-1)
post a comment »
date
newest »
newest »
Anyone have recommendations for picture books about mixed race girls in the martial arts? Or picture books about Black girls in the martial arts?
It's for a little girl who is about to turn 3 years old & start her own martial arts training.
So far, I've been recommended Jojo's Flying Side Kick, but I'd like to give several books to the soon-to-be birthday girl.
