The Weekly Wrap: April 19th to April 25th

Weekly Review

1. What I’ve Read This Week
2. My Reading Progress
3. Want to Read Updates

Upcoming

4. TBR for the Upcoming Week
5. Looking Forward

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Despite last week being another hectic time with assignments – I have quite a few due today! – I was able to read several books, including two from my Up Next Shelf. Both these books have been on the shelf for months and were actually quite disappointing.

While both had engaging plots and Heroines that I appreciated, the Heroes’ attitude were so frustrating! I’m a bit incredulous as to why From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout is so popular. The audacity and arrogance of the Hero are incredibly off-putting, disrespectful and anger-inducing.

Comparatively, while the Hero in The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen is a bit more understandable, his stubbornness and judgement ruined the whole romance for me (yes, I read the sequel).

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You will like Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon if you appreciate:
✨ Memoir
✨ Challenges “the myth of the perfect Muslim woman”
✨ Addresses fatphobia and body policing that occurs “in the name of Islam and Western beauty standards”
✨ Irreverent, youthful, and funny narrative

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You will like Fat Activism: A Social Movement by Charlotte Cooper if you appreciate:
✨ Nonfiction
✨ Author has been a fat activist for 30+ years
✨ Recounts historical roots and contemporary tactics of fat activists
✨ Demonstrates how fat activism is undeniably queer and feminist

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You will like What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon if you appreciate:
✨ Essay collection
✨ Illustrates the systemic and cultural bias fat people face
✨ Gordon shows how to be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy
✨ Challenges self-acceptance by pushing for fat justice through authentic fat activism

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I’m hoping to read all of my shorter books (under 200 pages) on my Up Next Shelf and currently reading list this week. Temper the Soul by Catharine Glen is part one of two prequels that set up Glen’s Shadowed World Saga (the first full book releases on May 27th, 2021).

On my Goodreads currently reading list, you can see that I’m working my way through six books, including Temper of the Soul. None of the books have captured my attention – hence why I keep starting new ones 😅 – but I’m hoping this week will allow me to make a serious dent.

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Releasing tomorrow is What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri! While you can purchase the ebook on Amazon and the paperback in the UK, hardcopies will not be out until June 22nd, 2021. So, the release seems to be a bit convoluted.

I’m really excited to read What White People Can Do Next; as one of the cover endorsements states, it’s “accessible and yet so full of scholarship,” which is precisely what I’m looking for in anti-racist books.

I cannot believe this is the last week of April! I’m hoping to post my book haul this week, but it could be pushed back into May. I’m also instating a personal book buying ban in hopes of working my way through more of my Up Next Shelf. However, this ban doesn’t stop me from borrowing books through Kindle Unlimited 😅.