#blacklitchallenge

[gothicvamperstein]

After three weeks, I've managed to read 9 books for #blacklitchallenge and several genres. . . . #blackauthors #blackhistorymonth #blackliterature #bookstagram #weneeddiversebooks #diversereads #bibliophile #bookworm #bookdragon #igbooks #igreads #ilovereading #ilovebooks #booksarelife #booksaremypassion #booksarelove #readingismyhappyplace #readingiscool #readingissexy https://www.instagram.com/p/CLjdG9kgtpQ/?igshid=1tjbzn9s2h7ku

[gothicvamperstein]

Yesterday I finished reading the short story collection Bitter Leafing Woman by Karen King-Aribisala and it was a good read I would highly recommend. . . . #blackauthors #blackliterature #blacklitchallenge #blackhistorymonth #shortstories #weneeddiversebooks #diversereads #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookworm #bookdragon #igbooks #igreads #bookrecommendation #booksarelife #booksareawesome #booksaremypassion #readingiscool #readingismagic #readingissexy https://www.instagram.com/p/CLEiuVtAkVJ/?igshid=6dhjvltcqlru

[gothicvamperstein]

As it's February, it's totally fair that I participate in #blacklitchallenge . Here's my TBR pile. . . . #blackauthors #blackliterature #tbrpile #mugmonday #coffeeandbooks #coffeeoftheday #coffeegeek @southerncoffee.no #staythefuckhome #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookworm #bookwormproblems #bookdragon #igbooks #bookbloggersofig #bookbloggers #bookbloggersofinstagram #booksarelife #booksareawesome #ilovereading #ilovebooks #readingiscool #readingissexy https://www.instagram.com/p/CKvs5GTAoGM/?igshid=i0zwtsn7eomr

[malerek]

February 2021 Readathons | 6 readathons for all tastes 📚

📚 February 2021 Readathons | 6 readathons for all tastes 📚 If you're looking for some readathons for February, check out #BlackLitChallenge, #Polarthon, #demonathon #historathon, #Waywardathon, and #woodysroundup! #BookBlogger #Readathon

Can you believe we’re already entering the second month of 2021? I would have liked to say this year started better than 2020, but it’s January, and here in Portugal, we’re on a full lockdown. I don’t know when I’ll go back to Lisbon to attend university because we’re strictly on online classes indefinitely. Still, if you want February to be a good reading month, check out some of these February…

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[greeniezona]

I was feeling deeply guilty/inadequate about the amount of time I was making for reading this month. Was part of the problem going down to one physical therapy appointment a week instead of two? Jumpstarting those days reading a book in a waiting room definitely increased my need to find time to read throughout the day. Anyway, now that I am stacking up all my reads for #februarywrapup, it doesn’t look so bad. As you can see my reading was dominated by the #blacklitchallenge, though I am feeling sad about all those excelleny books on my TBR that I didn’t get to. Back to the general TBR shelves they go! I’ve done individual posts on all of those books, but I haven’t talked about the others: . . MOOMINVALLEY IN NOVEMBER was a bedtime story book for my kids, I think also the last Moomin book I hadn’t read. This is a strangely charming book, with the Moomin family away at see, their house is taken over by Hemulen, Fillyjonk, Toft, Mymble, Snufkin, and Grandpa-Grumble, six wildly different personalities who struggle to coexist without the Moomins. It was lovely. . . SOFT SCIENCE was SO GOOD. It’s central metaphor is that the narrator is a cyborg, so it spends the entire book poking at what it means to be human, especially as a woman. I need to write a full review soon, I am still organizing my thoughts. . . THE MAGICIANS: ALICE’S STORY was an impulse decision at the library. I love the TV show, but haven’t committed to the books because I am 100% here for ELIOT AND MARGO FOREVER and I hear they are less central in the books. This seemed like an easy way to dip my toes in. I wasn’t in love with this, but I did feel like I got to know and understand Alice better, which I suppose was the goal. But listen, if there was an Eliot’s Story, I would buy it in a heartbeat. . . #bookstack #themagicians #alicesstory #levgrossman #lilahsturges #piusbak #marchtrilogy #johnlewis #andrewaydin #natepowell #softscience #frannychoi #magicalnegro #morganparker #seenowthen #jamaicakincaid #thegoodlordbird #jamesmcbride #moominvalleyinnovember #tovejansson #kingsleyhart #ifbealestreetcouldtalk #jamesbaldwin https://www.instagram.com/p/B9PZFY0gqam/?igshid=1lu2amjtds3ki

[greeniezona]

My last read for #blacklitchallenge! There are so many books I didn’t get to from my stack, but luckily there are still so many more months in the year! . . I went into this book with a lot of feelings. As someone born and raised in Kansas, Brown has always been on my personal list of saints, and that was BEFORE I read and fell in love with the bio John Brown: Abolitionist. Our introduction to Brown in this book is a little... unorthodox, and this book goes on to trouble the legacy of Frederick Douglass as well. But maybe that’s the miracle of this book. It’s a work of fiction so engaging that I was out here frantically researching whether Douglass was a pompous philandering dickhead or not. . . Listen, I would have LOVED an afterword on McBride’s research/process, with some notes on what was grounded in evidence and what was embellishment, but I am also kid of enjoying all the little questions this book left me with that I keep looking up in various places. . . So good. . . #blackstorieshavepower #blackhistorymonth #thegoodlordbird #johnbrown #jamesmcbride #historicalfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/B9HW53IAfip/?igshid=1vmt3o4zfhxq3

[greeniezona]

Books four, five, and six for #blacklitchallenge! I’ve had the first two books of this trilogy on my shelves for too long without reading them, and without picking up the third. Finally I decided to go grab the third book at the library this weekend and then read all three of them yesterday. What powerful books! Like most Americans, I knew bits and pieces of this story, but certainly not all of it, and not strung together as a personal narrative like this. It is, of course, a massive story that is difficult to find a starting and ending place for, but ending this with the Voting Rights Act is clever and satisfying, especially as the book jumps back and forth from the Civil Rights movement to the inauguration of Barack Obama (and also Lewis’s status as a Congressional Representative.) . . Given the subject matter, these books are difficult to read at times, and there were a few places (particularly in the third book) where I had to put the book down and walk away for a while. But I think all these moments were handled with the right weight — conveying the seriousness of the violence activists faced without lingering too long. . . These are an amazing achievement and I hope they find a permanent place in the graphic novel canon alongside classics like Maus and Persepolis. . . Have you read this? What other graphic non-fiction would you recommend? . . #march #johnlewis #andrewaydin #natepowell #blackstorieshavepower #blackhistorymonth #civilrightsmovement #graphicnovels #americanhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_w_5mAxEP/?igshid=yuvka8tniwsi

[greeniezona]

Book haul! Once again, I was ONLY supposed to be picking up a pre-order at my local bookstore (for Made in Saturn FINALLY, I don’t know why it took so long, but it’s the next book by Rita Indiana, author of Tentacle, so I was IN), but as long as I was THERE, I decided to check out the used book section. I ended up picking up a copy of Cat’s Cradle — my favorite Vonnegut. I had borrowed my dad’s copy as a teen and somehow never gotten my own. ALSO, I had just gone through @theartisangeek’s book recommendation video tree and ended up with A Blade So Black as my result. So when I found a lovely hardcover in the used section I HAD to buy it, right? Then it turns out the book was autographed and personalized! I wonder what happened to the mysterious girl who had a book signed to her and then sold it for probably $3 or so in store credit? Who knows? But her loss is my gain. . . So, this isn’t entirely a Black lit post, but because A BLADE SO BLACK is the book from the final challenge, I am tagging this #blacklitchallenge anyway. . . I need a readathon to catch up on all the books I want to read this month! . . #bookhaul #schulerbooks #madeinsaturn #ritaindiana #sydneyhutchinson #andotherstories #kurtvonnegut #catscradle #abladesoblack #llmckinney https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zIXWkgaYZ/?igshid=o0uxuwvpq7j3