What are You Reading This Week? — August 15, 2024
Since I updated you last, I had a lovely beach day where I carefully curated a selection of beach reads: some YA, some romances, all light and frothy print books perfect for reading while stretched out on a beach towel…and then I proceeded to ignore all of them, squinting through the glare on my old Kindle Fire so I could keep reading Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White, a bloody anti-capitalism Appalachian thriller. Oops.
Sometimes, you can’t resist the thrall of a good book, even if the vibes do not match your reading circumstances. I regret nothing. I’m also glad I booked that beach time when I did, because it’s cloudy and cool for the foreseeable future here, which just has me more excited to curl up under a blanket and read.
Today, I’m sharing a couple of your favorite books you read for task #7 of the Read Harder Challenge: Read an indie-published collection of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author. These are the titles you mentioned in the halfway check-in survey as your favorite reads for the challenge so far. I also have a few more updates from my reading life, but I want to hear what you’ve been reading, so let me know in the comments!
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