Hi everyone, it's Lily, and today I'm going
to be doing my TBR for Diversity
Bingo 2017. I do apologize if there is
some noise, there it is, outside my window
but I just can't film at any other time, so I
hope it's not too distracting and we
can just get through this and hopefully he stops soon.
So if you weren't aware Diversity
Bingo is basically this bingo sheet. It
basically has lots of challenges and
prompts to help diversify your reading, and
the point is to fill the sheet out by the end of 2017.
Now, I don't have a full TBR for a
couple of reasons, but i just want to
explain before i get into this.
First of all, I don't know if i'm going to
read 36 books this year, my goodreads goal is 35 and
that is because I go to University now. I read
70 books last year, but that was when I was on my gap year
and working and it was just a lot easier to
read because my life wasn't so taken up with
school. And whilst I am way ahead of schedule at
the moment, it's because i didn't really
have exams this January, and so I had a
couple of weeks off essentially, so I could
just do what I want, which was read. So
that's why I don't currently have a full
TBR, because I just don't know if I'm
actually gonna like read that many
books. Part of it is also just, for some of the
categories, there are some books that I am
interested in, but nothing's really grabbed me.Or
there are a few books i'm interested but I
decide. For the most part it is the latter. Also I'm
a uni student and I don't have a ton of money
to spare, and so a lot of books that fit
into these categories i would have to buy, and
I don't really have a great library in
my area and I don't also have a kindle
so i can't really get cheap ebooks either,
so it's just, it's hard
basically. So I'm basically just trying to
work through what I have. I do have
some books are not diverse on my
physical TBR, but I do have a lot of books that ARE diverse
on my physical TBR, but don't
necessarily fit into the challenges of
diversity bingo. So i will very much be
prioritizing diverse books, like i said
in my reading goals video this year, it's
just some of those books might not fit
into the diversity bingo categories, just
due to the way the categories are, and what
books i have on my physical TBR, and the fact
that i can't really afford to buy a lot
of new books all the time. Diversity Bingo is
influencing what i can buy at the moment and what
I do plan on buying with my sort of limited
funds. And so any books that I'm buying are
either fitting into diversity bingo or are diverse books.
There are one or two that I would like
but i'm really not prioritizing
them and I'm thinking I can get them at some
other point. So yeah that was just to explain
why I don't have a full TBR, why I might not
completely complete the diversity bingo
sheet. My aim is to fill in at least half of
the sheet, so to read books that fit into 18 of
the categories. I feel like that is like
a minimal goal, like if i don't do that i
will be really mad at myself and
hopefully i can actually do more than that.
So yeah like I said I just wanted to explain that to
you guys so let's get into the TBR. So
for romance with a trans main character
i'm looking to read If I Was Your Girl by
Meridith Russo. This is set in
Tennessee I believe and it is basically just a
contemporary novel about a young trans
girl who goes to a new school and I think there is
obviously a romance in this, which is why i picked
it for this category. I've heard really great things
about this, this book is also #ownvoices which is
fantastic and hopefully i will read this
soon as i have it with me at uni and i
also just really need something like
contemporary, I've been reading a lot of really
heavy adult books. So i will maybe be getting to
this soon. For underrepresented body type I'm
probably going to be reading Panther by
David Owen. This is a UKYA novel. It is
about a young boy called Derek. His sister
has depression. Not alot is really going
well in life for him at the moment, and he
starts to see this like black panther in his
London neighborhood, which is obviously
a bit odd and so he kind of wants to go after
this black panther and it's all about
him working through his problems. I've
not heard too much about this, it's definitely
an underhyped book. But the few things I
have heard about it are amazing and
I've met David and he's lovely
so I would really like to get to this.
For science fiction and fantasy with a main
character of color i'm probably going to
be reading Chasing the Stars by
Malorie Blackman. This is an Othello
retelling set in space which just sounds
really really cool. And Malorie Blackman
is a very well loved children's author over here,
and this book is also #ownvoices. For black main
character which his #ownvoices i'm
probably going to be reading The Hate U
Give which comes out in the US in
February and in the UK in
April. This is a book inspired by the #BlackLivesMatter
movement. It's had a lot of hype and I'm just
so excited to read it. I've heard nothing but
good things. For indignous main character
which is also #ownnvoices, I'm going to be
reading The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
This is a kind of crime/mystery/thriller
kind of book I believe. And the main
three characters are all indigenous people of the
United States. I believe it's set in the
Dakotas. And I can't remember which
people are native to that area but I will put it on
the screen when I've looked that up.
I'm so sorry! I'm really excited to
read this, i really want to read more
books by indigenous authors in the future. It's
something that I study quite a bit at uni,
and it's something I'm very very
interested in. In hearing indigenous history
and indigenous voices. So hopefully i
can do that in the future. For diverse non-
fiction i'm probably going to be reading
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I really like
Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, like we
don't get it here i don't think, but I've watched
som of his clips on youtube and I think he's
really funny. I'm definitely probably
gonna be listening to this one on audiobook. I've
heard the audiobook is really good, there's
been a few reviews coming out recently
really praising it, so I'm definitely excited
to get to this one. For neurodiverse
main character which is #ownvoices I'm probably
going to be reading The State of Grace
by Rachael Lucas. This comes out in the UK in
April. I'm not sure if it has a US release date
but you can probably get it on book
depository. And this is about a girl who
is autistic and like I said it is
#ownvoices. I've talked to Rachael on
Twitter and she is so so lovely. I'm really
really excited. I think this is her YA
debut, I think she's written adult books before. But this
is her first YA. And it's just a contemporary
novel I think about Grace. I don't really
know the whole plot of it but i'm really
excited to read it. For Latinx main
character i'm probably going to be
reading When The Moon Was Ours by
Anna-Marie McLemore. I've really wanted to
read her books because they just sound great and they're
very very diverse. This is about a romance
between a queer girl i believe and a trans boy.
And it's got magical realism in it, and I
don't really know the plot of it but
everyone has been raving about it and
her books in general and I just really want to
read them. For retelling with an LGBTQIA+
main character, i'm probably going
to be reading Ash by Malinda Lo.
This is a Cinderella retelling, I've read the
prequel Huntress and really enjoyed it.
Apparently this one is very like dark and
whimsical it sounds amazing. I've heard really
great things from reviewers and I'm just
excited to get my hands on it eventually.
For LGBTQIA+ character of color I'm
probably going to be reading Under the Udala
Trees by Chinelo Okparanta. This is a book set
in Nigeria during the civil war in the
sixties i believe. And it's about a girl who,
basically a lot of stuff happens to her family during
the civil war and then she meets this girl and
she falls in love with this girl but that is
forbidden at the time. And also this girl is
from another ethnic group, which just
causes even more problems. I have started it,
i've read the first three chapters and I
just know I'm gonna love
it, but i'm not in the right mood so i think
i'm going to put this down for now and come
back to it. For biracial main character which is
#ownvoices i'm actually currently reading My
Name is Leon by Kit De Waal. This is
about a boy called Leon who is nine years old
and he has a little baby brother called
Jake. But his brother Jake is white,
Leon is mixed race and basically
they are forced to go into the foster car system.
Jake, because he is a white little
baby is adopted very easily, Leon is
not and it's basically about that. It's
kind of like a character study and I'm so
enjoying this so far. Even though I have the
physical copy I'm actually reading it on audio
book, it's narrated by Lenny Henry and
it's just so good.
And i'll let you guys know my thoughts soon.
So for deaf main character I'm going to be
reading A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara
Barnard. This is about a girl called Steffi who is
selectively mute and then she meets a boy
called Rhys I believe. And he is deaf so
he's the deaf main character and they basically form
a friendship, I think they also fall in love.
And I've heard really really good things about
this, i wasn't sure i was going to pick it
up because I wasn't the biggest fan of
Beautiful Broken Things, but people I really
trust have said really good things about
this. And it's very short and I think that this
will be a interesting read. I do want to
note just here that this book is
not #ownvoices. For bisexual main character which
is #ownvoices i'm probably going to be
reading How To Make A Wish by Ashley
Herring Blake. This is a YA contemporary
novel, I don't know too much about it.
I know that there's some stuff with a
mother-daughter relationship. And then
there's a romance with a biracial main
character and I'm just really excited
about this. The early reviews from lgbtqia+
reviewers have been really really great
and I'm just so excited to read it.
It just sounds so good, i believe that this book is
out in May. For person of colour on the
cover I'm going to be reading The Memory
of Love by Aminatta Forna. I just picked this up in a
charity shop, I've never heard of it, i
don't know anything about it like in
terms of reviews and stuff. But I believe
this book is set in Sierra Leone and it's about
three different men and their kind of
experiences. I really didn't know much
about the plot but i just think it's
really interesting and I really excited to
go into a book not knowing a whole lot about it.
For non-western real-life setting I'm
going to be reading Purple Hibiscus by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I've read Americanah, I
really enjoyed it but i think this one's
gonna be more up my alley. This is about a 15 year
old girl who is from an abusive
household. And then due to circumstance she is
forced to move in with her aunt and
uncle. And she basically starts to see what sort
of like a family dynamic should be
like. And it is about the military coup in Nigeria,
this book is set in Nigeria, and so I'm just
really excited to read more of Chimimanda
Ngozi Adichie's work because I think she's fantastic. For book
by an author of color I've actually already read the book,
and it is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. This was on my
TBR but I've already read it.
This just is about two sisters called Effia and Esi
who are living in Ghana or what will be Ghana in
the 18th century. And one of them is sold
into slavery and one of them marries a slave
owner and it's basically about the
subsequent generations. It goes right
right from the 18th century in Ghana up to the
present day in the United States and
Ghana. And it's just so interesting and
it talks alot about like the effects of
colonialism and how slavery is still
affecting us in society today. As someone
who studies colonialism. I have been
studying recently in my course at
uni the effects of colonialism on
indigenous peoples and everything like
that, it's just it's a very interesting
book, it was very eye-opening and
thought provoking and I would really
recommend it. For Indian main character which is
#owvoices I'm going to be reading The
Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri. I don't know too
much about this book either. I just know it
is set in Calcutta. I believe it is
about two brother's. This has won various
prizes and it's sort of, its quite famous.
I hadn't really ... I'd seen it around but I don't
know too much about it. I'm excited to
just go in and just sort of learn what's it about.
For Central American setting I'm
going to be reading Signal to Noise by Sylvia
Moreno-Garcia. This is set in Mexico
I believe and it's a magical realism novel
that involves music. I think it's set
in the eighties or nineties, I might be wrong, if i'm
wrong i will put when it is set. And I heard a
really good review of this on mynameis-
-marines' channel, she said it was fantastic.
And I am just really excited to read a
book set in central America. I do
really want to read more books set in
Central and South America cuz I've
really read none.
For Immigrant/Refugee main character I'm probably going to be reading
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah. It's kind of
in the title. It's about a boy who is from
Ethiopia, he goes on holiday to London
with his parents and then one day he wakes up in his
hotel room in London and his parents have gone
back to Ethiopia and left him in London
because of the political situation in
Ethiopia and he's then thrust into the
Refugee System in the UK and it's basically
all about his experience in the refugee
system. For displaced mian character I'm probably going to
be reading The Bone Sparrow by Zana Frallion.
This is an ARC copy that my friend Kalie
sent me. And this is about a boy called Subhi
who is in a, I think it's like a
refugee detention center in Australia.
And that's kind of all I know about it. I know it's got
magical realism in it and I've heard
amazing things. I know this book has been
endorsed... the amnesty international
basically has something to do with this
book. And it's very short and I've heard
the writing is beautiful and I'm
really excited to see what this book is
like. For contemporary world arranged
marriage I'm probably gonna be reading
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. This is
about two characters Dimple and Rishi
and I think they've been arranged by their
parents to get married and they meet on
this summer program and I've just heard it's
really cute and I'm just excited to read
it. I've never read about that kind of
situation before so I'm definitely interested
to see what this is like. For Hijabi main
character which is #ownvoices i'm going to be
reading Sofia Khan is Not Obiged by
Ayisha Malik. This is what has been
described to me as like Bridget Jones,
with a Muslim main character who's a blogger.
I've just heard it's absolutely hilarious
and it just sounds really great. I've
never read a book about a muslim main character
or a hijabi main character. So i'm very very
excited to read this, I've heard amazing things
from friends and I know that there is a sequel
coming out this year as well so I'd really
like to read this before that comes out.
I think i'm going to try and read this
in the next few months, it just sounds like
something really like lighthearted that I'd really
like to read soon. For my free choice i have
decided to read Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee.
Because i would really like to read a book
with a chinese-american protagonist.
I realized on this list that there were none so
I'm going to be reading this. It is a
historical fiction novel that follows
the oregon trail in like the mid-nineteenth
century, it's about two main characters
who have to dress up as boys i believe and go
on the Oregon Trail and I don't know too much
about it other than that. I just know that the main character
is a chinese-american and the other main
character is an escaped slave. So I'm really
excited to read a diverse historical
fiction novel. And finally for
practicing Jewish main character I want to read
Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert. I really
don't know too much about this book. I found it very recently
and so I don't really know what the plot of this book is.
I just know that it has Jewish
representation and I believe there is also
biracial and bisexual representation as
well which just sounds amazing and like a really diverse
book. It comes out sometimes this year I think, i'm
not sure of the date, I will put that on screen. I'm
really excited to read reviews of this and
just see what it's like.
Ok guys, so that was my TBR. I don't have
books on my TBR for West Asian setting,
non-binary main character which is
#ownvoices, science fiction and fantasy with
a disabled main character, Arab main
characters which is #ownvoices, main character with a
wheelchair, main character with n
invisible disability, visually impaired
main character, main character with
chronic pain, main character with an anaphylactic
allergy and pansexual main character
which is #ownvoices. If you have any
recommendations for those categories i
would love to hear them.
I have seen a few books that I'm sort of
thinking about but I would really love
for you guys to suggest me some because
i do want to fill out those squares with a
TBR if possible. So yea guys I hope you enjoyed this
video, I hope maybe you found some books that
you might want to read or use for
diversity bingo. Let me know again if you're
participating in diversity bingo, if you have
any recommendations for diverse books
for me, I'm always looking for more. I hope you guys are
all having a lovely day and I'll see you
soon in my next video. Bye!
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