#blackathon

It's TBR time! Check out my February TBR!

As with every February, I prioritize Black authors for Black History Month and participate in Blackathon! I have a separate TBR for Blackathon and 3 other books I want to get to otherwise, so let’s get into them! Blackathon Blackathon is a readathon that runs throughout the month of February where the goal is to read books by Black authors! There are reading challenges, Instagram challenges, a…

My week got a bit thrown into a blender due to the snow last weekend, so I didn’t get to finish/start the stuff I’d meant to. I only finished one book last week, but I’ll likely finish two more in the next couple days. Possibly three? It depends on how into The Ballad of Black Tom I get. Like, I say I want to tackle some Lovecraftian horror, but do I? Do I really?

Anywho, I did get a couple things in from ILL, so I now have the #Blackathon group book, The Secret Wives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin in my hands. I had meant to start it this week, but next week is fine too. I also really need to start tackling some of these nonfiction books. The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty is the one I’m looking forward to the most. I mean, it’s a food history. Are we shocked over here?

However, I did make progress on Binti, and I managed to start Smash It! by Francina Simone. I should be able to finish both up pretty quickly. SI! is a nerdy theater kid YA with a lot of swearing and oh my god, the mortal dread of being 16 is just coming off this narrative in waves. It is both amazing and I kind of want to hug Olivia and tell her it won’t be that bad.

I did manage to finish a book last week though! And it counts for Black Author Readathon, as well as #Blackathon. It was Intercepted by Alexa Martin.