Hello!
K here with some news. 800s Plus/ 800 Plus is having a butterfly moment. Well, I guess it’s actually a cocoon moment. We’ve built our own safe little pod and are starting to liquidate our guts to kickstart a transform! Ok enough of the metaphor: we are changing the format of 800 Plus. What that means for right now is that J and I are no longer having twitter chats. We have been rocking and rolling with this little book club for around 3 and a half years now and we’ve loved it. We still love it honestly. But what we want to do and what we are able to do has shifted. (I’m sure you’ve noticed the chats getting pushed back...almost constantly? Yeah.)
What’s not changing is that J and I are still going to be reading! We love making space for diverse authors in our reading and we hope you do too. Our reading list will stay up till the end of the year, and we hope you’ll check out some of the books on it! Heck, we are still probably going to put out a new list next year too.
Even though we won’t be doing live chats, we WILL be posting some kind of reviews of the books we read. We aren’t just 100% sure what that looks like yet. As soon as we do, I’ll make another post to let you guys know.
If you have participated in our chats before, THANK YOU! You made the experience even more fun for us. If you’ve read along with us, watched us tweet from afar, or even just checked our reading list, big ups to you too.
For now, J and I will keep turning the metaphorical goo of 800 Plus that was, into the beautiful butterfly wings of the 800 Plus that will be. But I want to leave you with one tiny challenge: go read a book. Pick something new that will challenge you, pick something random where the cover excited you, pick an old favorite that reminds you of elementary school. Pick any book and remember just how dope reading is. Then, tell someone else what you thought about it.
We’ll be doing the same. <3