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   I am an affiliate with Z Publishing House. See the end of this post for details. Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan and was published by Bloomsbury YA in 2019. Watson is the author of several books, including A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and What Momma Left Me. She is also the creator of the one woman show Roses are Red, Women are Blue and she has had poetry and articles published in Rethinking Schools, Theatre of the Mind, and With Hearts Ablaze. Hagan is a poet and a feminist with books including Hemisphere: Poems, Crowned, and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. Watch Us Rise follows Jasmine and Chelsea as they deal with sexism and racism in their progressive NYC high school. They begin a Women’s Rights Club to protest this, posting articles and essays calling out the system and people they encounter. When the club is threatened to be shut down, they have to find a way to make their voices heard. A special thanks to NetGalle...

#notsponsored. I am an affiliate with Z Publishing House. See link at the bottom of the post. Hello everyone, I wanted to give you an update on my reading progress. As you know, my goal is to read eight books every month which means I need to read at least two books per week. This worked out well for me in January but, unfortunately, I didn't quite make that goal in February. Out of the eight books I set out to read, I only completed: Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronavitch-- This book was recommended by a co-worker. It follows Peter Grant as he goes from being a low-level cop to investigating strange deaths and murders that may or may not be caused by magical creatures. He's trained as a magician-- making several references to Harry Potter-- and has to find the culprit while also solving a blood feud between the river spirits. It's fun and strange and magical. Love by Toni Morrison-- I read this one for the POPSUGAR challenge prompt: "read a book with 'love' i...

Well, it's the end of the first month of my crazy reading challenge for the year. As I said before, I am doing both a personal TBR challenge where everything I read is either something I own but haven't read or something someone has recommended to me (or I received as a review copy and needed to get done). With a goal of 100 books for the year and a goal of eight books per month, I'm happy to say I achived this goal for January. If you are interested in full reviews of any of these books (which I might do anyway), please let me know. For my January Wrap-Up, I have read 8 books  this month. These include: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka-- A historical fiction/ group memoir about the Japanese women who were "picture brides" to men in America right before World War II. Told in eight short stories, everything is told from the collective "we" perspective, from their trip across the Pacific to their first nights with their husbands, to dealing wi...