I started out niched solely as a book blogger in the Insta-sphere. Even though that’s not the only thing I was writing about way back when, it was what I became known for. I rebranded so I had more freedom to talk about all the things without any push back and unfollows because travel, dogs, social justice, opinion pieces, etc were not on brand.
When COVID hit, my life became wrapped up in the puppies and staying home. I’ve lost a great deal of motivation. Before 2020, I was extremely self-motivated and would often work ten or more hours a day seven days a week between my writing for work and content creating for the blog. I have found a complete loss of self-motivation in ALL things. Not just blog content.
A book part of this blog has been and will be book critiques. I love reading and expanding my world views. I have not fallen off the wagon when it comes to reading…. Although, I’m Netflixing more than I used to. My reading quotas are still being met. The book critique quotas are not, however. I’m getting back to it… Probably.
Anyways. Publishers are still sending me books. I am still reading them. I’m just not posting them—or anything else—lately. But I wanted to give you a little sneak peek into eleven books I’m excited to read this fall. My reading taste is pretty focused. As a book critic, I like to vary it more than I would if I were solely reading for pleasure, so I aim for half nonfiction and half fiction on a wide range of topics, views, authors, and more. There is always a lean towards social justice, inclusion, representation, and progress. Even in my light reading, I choose female point of views and authors as well as finding POC writers because even when it’s a cute novel, women of color speak to things I may not immediately think of as a white woman.
Here are the eleven books on the top of my reading list right now:
- Charged Emily Bazelon
- Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead
- Sister Outsider Audre Lorde
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- My Broken Language Quiara Alegría Hudes
- Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo
- The Testaments Margaret Atwood
- The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals Becky Mandelbaum
- Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
- Entitled Kate Manne
- Ghost Forest Pik-Shuen Fung
Fingers crossed I publish book critiques of what should be some amazing books in a relatively soon time frame. We shall see.
anbisous und обьятий,
RaeAnna
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