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I spent last night finishing another book and needed a bit of a breather before starting another one. So I spent an hour or two (it three) reorganizing (part) of my bookshelves. I am committed to reading down all my unread BOTM’s so I collected them and created a new stack to tackle next. I am alternating between my oldest and latest unread. But, I am also going to trade off on any ARC’s received and health/wellness/inspiration/astrology books I got recently. So I’m kicking off #stayhome24in48 #24in48 with this YA debut from @kcjohnsonwrites that I received from @getunderlined 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾@penguinrandomhouse #bookstagram

While WFH and I finished one project, frustrated with another and waiting for two calls so I took a break for some coffee and to reflect on my latest completed read: Everfair! I listen to podcasts that talk about upcoming releases and why they are great, scour the shelves for diverse sci-fi and fantasy, ask and listen to my trusted peoples on what to get next - I rush to buy it...... ............. .................. AND THEN IT SITS ON MY SHELVES FOR MONTHS (and maybe years....😤). What is my problem? Anyway, I’m pretty sure I heard about Everfair from both my #bookgirlgang and/or getbooked podcast from @bookriot???? My fellow sci-fi fan @beastworkbk1 was reading it so I started and it’s one less book sitting unread on my shelf. This was so richly imagined, I honestly felt the world was a real one I could step into. It’s a steampunk reimagined of European colonization with a specific focus on King Leopold’s horrific mass murder of the population of the Congo. We follow a few characters of different backgrounds and ideologies and the fight for freedom/independence/a different world/way of life. My only quibble is that the novel reads more like interconnected short stories across the same characters, close proximity and small jumps in time than the novel, in depth, super details I was expecting. But it was a great read and I think it’s especially a good read for high school students. #unreadshelfproject2020 #everfair #nisishawl #bookstagram

My @bookofthemonth selection came! This is next book I’m reading after I’m done with Everfair - both to complete the 2020 reading challenge Book of The Month has (you can check it out on their app) AND to read down all the unread book of the month books I have (it’s hard to juggle new dystopian, library holds and series my friends tell me I’m going to love!). I picked this one up because I think I heard @franzencomesalive talking about it and I had a hard time choosing this month. I’ve heard of Lily King before but never read anything else by them before - have you?

So @bookofthemonth has a reading challenge on its app, based on your picks for 2020. While checking it out, i realized I had a unread bookshelf of book of the month books of 21! 21!!!! How did this happen? So I’m returning all my library books and getting that number to zero and reading my new book of the month book as receive them this year. This was my oldest unread #BOTM - a memoir of a reporter whose partner drowns in front of her and their children in Treasure Beach, Jamaica. It really made me think about trauma and how it expresses itself in unexpected ways.

Oh man, had to jump off the Internets for a while to rest between being sick and then not feeling the energy for...life???? Anyway, this is the @bookriot insiders quarterly read and whew it is so good!! A mystery apocalyptic event that slowly plays out while an Indigenous town comes to grips with the fading away of the outside world. #readtosleep #moononcrustedsnow #waubgeshigrice #bookriotinsiders #quarterlyread

I read Book 1 back in 2018 (which honestly feels like a lifetime ago! The past five years have definitely felt like 10!) and man did it rip my heart out. I was in the library in December and when I checking out the graphic novel/comics section I saw this second in the series. It follows some of the same characters from the first volume and introduces some new ones including a black jazz band from America playing a local club. Reading this was fascinating but also anxiety inducing because it reinforces how fascism is both slow and fast in its spread and how many things are reflected in it both in the US and around the globe.

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