Howdy,
It's MLK Weekend, and it's the perfect time to tell you something I'm doing this year of 2023. It's a specific Reading Challenge called #ReadingEverybodyBlack. It's an Instagram Challenge that @jasminelholmes put together last year (or maybe the year before) and is continuing this year.
I've decided that I'm taking this challenge and making it my own. Jasmine is suggesting that everyone read 2 books each month (on average)--one fiction and one nonfiction--that are by Black authors. While I will probably focus most of my attention on Black authors, I also want to
read Indigenious authors and other authors of color. So my challenge is more like #ReadingEveryoneNotWhite (though again, I plan to read white authors as well-- I plan to do a lot of reading. And I'm in the middle of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by a white author, Rebecca Skloot.)
Do you have any book suggestions for me?
Now on to this week's
fun!