Hey there, Kazen here, and welcome back to Always Doing.
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Before I jump into today's video I want to say hello and welcome to all of my new subscribers.
It's wonderful to have you here.
I think some of you found me via tags I've gotten - Heidi over at My Reading Life tagged
me recently, as well as some other ones that I'm sure I'm forgetting - the BookTube Prize,
or one of many other things.
So go on, settle in, make yourself welcome.
If you'd like to know a little bit more about me go ahead and check out my New to Booktube Tag video.
I go on a little bit about who I am and my reading taste, along with a bunch of recommendations
for all different kinds of books.
And feel free to follow me on social media.
If you want to see more about my everyday life, both bookish and not-so-bookish, follow
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And also I'm on Twitter, I love chatting on there, as well as Goodreads if you want to
keep up with what I'm reading exactly when I'm reading it.
Links for all of that social media and for all of the channels and videos and everything
I mention today will be down below.
So let's get into the video.
...the real video. [laughs]
February is Black History Month and there is so much going on in the bookish world.
So today I'm going to tell you a little bit about the different events that are going
on as well as give you my own TBR.
Which is not actually a TBR for reasons you will soon see.
There are three events that I know of in February that are connected to Black History Month.
One is Didi over at Brown Girl Reading, and she has #ReadSoulLit and they're doing a group
read of Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott.
If you'd like to get in on that I'll link to the video introducing that book down below.
And she also has a Goodreads group where they're going to be discussing the book as they read it.
So check that out.
Another event that's going on is the Blackathon, which is being done by several Booktubers
including The Novel Lush.
I'll have links to all of that down below.
They originally were just going to do a week but it's encompassing the whole month [now],
and I believe they have challenges and all sorts of things.
So if you like the challenge side of it head over there.
And the next event isn't restricted to February.
Some people do it for an entire year, or six months, or whatever works for you.
But it's the #readingblackout.
It was started by Denise D. Cooper and the idea is to read completely African-American
authors for whatever span of time that you want to do that.
Personally I'm going for the reading blackout... but it's going to be a very small blackout,
unfortunately, for a few reasons.
I have a lot of reading on my plate right now, and a lot of half-started books, and
I don't know if I'm going to be able to finish them by February 1st.
Also, I'm judging the BookTube Prize and while that's a lot of fun, and while I may, perhaps,
be reading some African-American authors I can't talk about it because the way the judging works.
They want us to keep all of our opinions to ourselves until the round is over.
So even if I am reading black authors I can't say anything.
And number three, I have some advance copies that I need to get to before their release
date and... yeah, that ties my hands a little bit, too.
So while I can't change those things very much
what I can do is fit in Black authors everywhere else.
To that end I have a TBR here for you guys.
Thing is though, on my channel I personally do not do TBRs.
If I make a list of books I want to read, that's the signal for my brain that all of
the work has already been done and I don't actually have to read the books.
It's the kiss of death.
As soon as I list a book, I'm never gonna touch it.
Instead I have a Pile of Possibilities.
And the idea here is that it's a bunch of books that are available to me and that I
would like to read as part of this challenge, but I'm not forcing myself to read it, there's
no pressure to read it.
If I find something else I want to read that's not on the list that's fine.
If I decide that all of the books on the list stink and I'm not in the mood for them anymore
and I want to do something completely different, it's fine.
It's just a starting point.
Right now my Pile of Possibilities stands at six books so I'm going to tell you about
them and a little bit about why I want to read each.
First is a book that every time I see it I swear I'm going to read it soon but I just
haven't gotten there yet for some reason.
And that's What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah.
Priscilla at Bookie Charm has done a great review of it so I'll leave a link to that down below.
And Tatiana over at Musical Tati is reading it at this very moment and she's loving it as well.
It's a collection of 12 short stories and they appear to span many different genres.
Some take place in Nigeria, some take place in America, and the author is from Nigeria.
So if you're looking for specifically African-American authors for your own blackout or any of these
other challenges or things you may be doing, I'm not quite sure she would qualify.
I don't know if she considers herself part of the diaspora or not.
You would have to do some research.
But I'm going for Black authors more than African-American authors, so this one works for me.
Next, I know I want to read something by Beverly Jenkins.
I love her historicals.
And she does have a new series coming out but the first book doesn't drop until May.
So to hold me over in the meantime I'm thinking about picking up Indigo instead.
It's from her backlist.
If you mention one book by her, if you say, "Name one book by Beverly Jenkins you think
I should read," it ends up being this one.
And it was actually included in NPR's Top 100 Romances list which I'll link down below.
And, yeah.
This is a big hole in my romance, like, canon knowledge and I really should be getting to it.
Next is James Baldwin.
I haven't read James Baldwin yet.
I'm thinking about starting with his essays, specifically The Fire Next Time...
because yes.
In a related vein, the third book I'm looking at is What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy,
James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson.
I read Dyson's book The Tears We Cannot Stop and loved it.
So, just pretty much anything he writes now, I'm interested.
Next is another romance because I think with the, especially the BookTube Prize reading,
it's going to be all literary fiction and I'm going to need romance to lighten things up.
So this is London Bound by Nana Malone.
I am interested in this one especially because I have a soft spot for stories where a woman
gets out of a bad relationship or out of a bad situation and does something that she
always wanted to do and in the process of that, without really seeking love, finds love.
Dropping one person and then going off to find yourself, or to become yourself, or just
realize who you are, and in the process finding love?
That's a trope I'm always here for.
And last is Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett.
I'm pretty sure I first heard about this book from Didi at Brown Girl Reading.
She had a rave review of it which I will also link down below with everything else.
It's historical fiction.
It takes place in the early 1900s in the American South, and it's about two women who found
the first female-owned - I think it's owned - African-American newspaper in the United States.
And it's Queer.
Yes, please!
So there we have it, a whole bunch of events related to Black History Month as well as
my own Pile of Possibilities.
Are you planning to read anything for Black History Month, or to participate in any of the events?
Do you have anything on your own Pile of Possibilities, or something you'd recommend for mine?
Let's have a gab down in the comments below.
Thank you for watching, subscribe if you're new, and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye!
[♪♪] Thanks for watching!
One more book to add to the Pile: Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole.
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