So anyway...I'm sure it will come as no surprise that I remain terribly behind in my Read Harder challenge. I did finish my challenge ten books - A Phoenix First Must Burn and A Thousand Beginnings and Endings - which were both excellent, as well as my challenge eleven book, Notes from A Young Black Chef (also excellent, and he included a recipe at the end of each chapter, which I loved). I'm about a third of the way through Sway, my chosen book for challenge twelve, and while it is great, it is also d e n s e. Which means it's taking me a long time to work my way through. Still, though...interesting content!
I have not yet begun my July books (😬), but I'm sharing my choices for my August and September challenges below and crossing my fingers that I can at least get a little more caught up in September. Let this be a lesson to anyone out there who thinks being a librarian means all you do is read! Decidedly not the case.
August challenges:
15. Read a memoir by a Latinx author: So many amazing options! I chose In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero.
16. Read an own voices book about disability: Again, lots of great options. I figured maximize the number of authors I got to read and go with an anthology, so I chose Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong.
September challenges:
17. Read an own voices book with a Black main character that is not about Black pain: Ok, sooooo many of the options for this prompt are on my TBR list, so I should be reading more than one book that fits this prompt in the nearish future, but for the challenge I went with Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson. Looking forward to it!
18. Read a book by or about a non-Western leader: Challenging indeed! There were some solid suggestions for this prompt, and I feel like any one of them would be a good choice. After some back and forth, I decided to go with Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
What would you choose for each of these challenges?
