Purchased eBooks
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
In my continued attempt to better understand the Black Lives Matter movement I discovered this book this week and it seems like a good book to read soon after They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery, which I read over the last couple of weeks. This is a memoir of two of the women who co-founded the movement and the found themselves being called terrorists as a result. I plan on reading this one very soon.
Things I learnt from Falling by Claire Nelson
I added this to my wish list recently and soon after went ahead and bought the book. I’m always drawn to books about people who’ve had immense struggle and come out the other side. This is Claire’s memoir of deciding to go hiking in order to try and help her anxiety but while alone on the trail she had an horrendous fall and became trapped with no way of contacting anyone. This is the story of how she survived. I’m keen to get to this one soon too.
Review Books
Hush Little Baby by Jane Isaac
I requested this book on NetGalley as the blurb sounded like my kind of book. A baby is abducted from outside a supermarket and then fifteen years later a tiny hand is spotted on a building site. The baby’s mother was accused of being distant when her baby was stolen but she has never got over losing her child. Now the case is to be re-opened. I’m so intrigued to know what happened to the baby and who’s invovled.
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
I’ve been looking for books on race to help me be a better ally and this book keeps coming up. I already own another book by this author (Stamped from the Beginning) but I think I’m going to read this one first. I understand that it’s not enough to not be racist, we need to understand how to be anti-racist. I think this might be the non-fiction book I read after my current one.
Picky Eaters by S. J. Higbee
I got a copy of this short story last Saturday afternoon and I’ve already read it. It follows a cantankerous old dragon who is left in charge of his grand-dragonets for the day and things don’t go well. Over the course of the story he sees a spark in his grand-daughter Sammy-Jo and he begins to change his ways. I adored this story, it was perfect escapism and I highly recommend it. It’s due to be published later this month so I’ll be reviewing it very soon!
Have you acquired any new books this week? I’d love to know what you got. Or have you read any of my new books and recommend I get to any of them sooner rather than later? If you’ve shared a book haul post this week then please feel free to share you link below and I’ll make sure to visit your post! 🙂
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These are all tempting! Hush Little Baby is calling to me, and so is How To Be an Antiracist. Enjoy!
I can’t wait to read both of those books. 🙂
You have some good ones there, I think, about educating ourselves, Hayley, and that is so important right now, I think. I also think it can be very helpful to learn from people who’ve made it through difficult challenges. We can all learn how to have the resilience we need for life.
Thank you. I think it’s so important to keep educating ourselves and to read widely around current issues. I have a good stack of books to keep me busy.
I also got a copy of When they Call You A Terrorist.
It looks like such an interesting and important book, doesn’t it?
It certainly does!
Great haul! I hope you will enjoy all of these. xx
Thank you xx
I’m interested in hearing your thoughts of Picky Eaters. I really need to read one of Sarah’s books. Enjoy your new ones.
Picky Eaters was such a lovely read, I very much enjoyed it. I highly recommend it.
Nice picks! I bought Jo Furniss’s All The Little Children 🙂 x
Thank you 🙂 All the Little Children sounds good, I hope you enjoy it. x
I would like to read When They Call You a Terrorist and have just requested it from NetGalley (your one has a different cover and I’m wondering if it’s an updated repringt?) and have been looking at How to be an Anti-Racist but was worried it was too US-centric so I’ll be really interested to read what you think of it. I have acquired new books this week by dint of going to my friend Ali’s house!
The copy of When They Call You a Terrorist that I got is from late 2018 so it might be that it’s now been updated. I hope you get approved on NetGalley to read it. I think I might read it next after Black and British.
I’ve also been trying to dig into anti racist reading lists. I picked up White Fragility from my library and am listening to So You Want To Be An Antiracist on audio.
Great picks and I hope you have a fantastic week!
I have White Fragility on hold on my library app so am hoping it comes in soon. If it doesn’t I might buy a copy. I hope you’re finding it interesting, it sounds like such an important read.
Thank you 🙂
Looks like you have some great reads here!
Thank you, I can’t wait to read them all 🙂