If only I had noticed the skin colour in Earthsea, I could have waved it in her face. Because, for sure, there was very little happening in my books with minorities. And when there was, I didn't pay much attention.

I'm not sure how I visualised Ged...he sort of didn't have a look, until I saw it explicitly called out. Somehow I skimmed over that particular description.

Sometimes I catch it, sometimes I don't.

For the record, I also never noticed that the Anansi Boys protagonists weren't white...not for sure. I figured they were West Indian, and I did wonder, but I didn't notice that Gaiman was only describing white characters by their race, because that's not something I associate with black people.

Especially not Jamaican ones. We will usually tell you the precise shade of skin of the person we're talking about.

Didn't whats her name write a really cool poem about how to describe different shades? My own senior moment. Really famous African-American poet. Still living. Like one first two or three women one thinks of when talking African-American poets.

Maya Angelou?

Maya Angelou?

t terrorist fist bump with Dana

We should go get gay married in California.

Maya Angelou?

We should. And bring Hil.

Yeah. Really a brain fart to mentally block on Maya Angelou. Much worse than not remembering Doris Lessing. If I can't remember William Shakespeare I'll really start worrying.

Now trying to remember the skin color description - Caramel, and bitter chocolate and cocoa with milk. Not exactly those but a whole list of ways to describe the variety of skin tones.