Category: TBR Lists

My Summer 2020 TBR

My Summer 2020 TBR
Posted June 16, 2020
Books, Memes, TBR Lists, Top 10 Tuesday

This Friday marks the real first day of summer, and I am not that thrilled about it, in all honesty. I’ve always hated summer and hot weather and if I could afford it (and there wasn’t a global pandemic) I would hop over to the southern hemisphere during their winter just so I could avoid the heat. I live in a house that is over a hundred years old, has a ton of insulation and no air conditioning, so summer is just awful for me. But anyway, since my hobbies involve staying at home and reading, summer is a great time to switch up what I read because I am totally a seasonal reader. I did actually have this list completely primed and ready to go, but then some things happened involving She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named and I did some retuning. jsyk, i won’t be talking about jkr or any of her books on this blog ever again because her “opinions” are vile. Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert – What’s better than a queer book? A queer book that features a black protagonist from a blended family and also talks about mental health. I mentioned this book in my Books by Black Authors I Want […]

Books by Black Authors I Want to Read

Books by Black Authors I Want to Read
Posted June 2, 2020
Books, TBR Lists

One thing that I really want to do is read more books by black authors because the amount of books I have read by black authors right now is terribly low. I did study some of Alice Walker’s short stories while at university but now I feel like that’s not enough. We should always make sure that we amplify black voices, but now we need to do it more than ever and support black authors. This post is only comprised of books that I want to read and haven’t read yet, but here are some videos and posts by black bloggers and BookTubers who give better recommendations than I could ever give: Recommending Books by Black Authors with Black Characters – Olivia’s Catastrophe YA by Black Authors | Black History Month Recommendations – LucieReads 5 Classic Novels by Black Women You Should Have Read by Now – Black & Bookish 30 Best Black Young Adult (YA) Novels to Add to Your TBR in 2020 – Afoma Umesi Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi I have had this book on my TBR ever since it came out but for some reason, it kept getting pushed back further and further. My […]