My 2019 is All Booked: Reading Challenges

"How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again."

Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming 

This year I'm participating in two blogger-led reading challenges. Ramona’s While I Was Reading Challenge and the Celebrity Readers' 2019 Diversity Reading Challenge. I am SO stoked to see what middle grade and ok *some* grown-up books I find for these challenges! 💗😍 Expect plenty of reviews for books I CANNOT be more excited to tell you about to pop up here each month. Here they are if you want to follow along~! Will you join me in this bookish fun? 

✌🏻Peace, 🐱 fluff, and happy reading!📚 

💖Vicky 

Celebrity Readers 2019 Diversity Reading Challenge

JANUARY – diverse folktales/culture/mythology; or diverse retelling; or non-western setting

FEBRUARY – poc: Black/African American

MARCH – #ownvoices; or gender: female authors in male-dominated genres/non-fiction

APRIL – poc: Middle Eastern/South Asian

MAY – poc: East Asian/Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander

JUNE – LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identity

JULY – LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identity

AUGUST – mental health/addiction

SEPTEMBER – poc: hispanic/latinx

OCTOBER – physical/sensory/cognitive/intellectual/developmental disabilities

NOVEMBER – poc: Native American

DECEMBER – religious minorities

Ramona’s While I Was Reading Challenge

• A book with a curse word in the title.
• A memoir or biography of a favorite celebrity.
• An essay collection.
• A book with a one word title.
• A classic you’ve been meaning to get to.
• A book written by a comedian.
• A book set in a country you’d like to visit.
• A book by an author you’ve never read before.
• A book recommended by someone you trust.
• A book with your favorite animal on the cover or in the title.
• A book mentioned in another book.
• Read a book with “how to” in the title.