The Weekly Wrap: August 3rd to August 9th

Weekly Review

1. What I’ve Read This Week
2. ‘Up Next’ Progress
3. Want to Read Updates

Upcoming

4. TBR for the Upcoming Week
5. Looking Forward

You will like Love After Love if you appreciate:
✨ Obligations of family
✨ The complexities of love
✨ Confronts domestic abuse, intolerance of queer folx, and immigration

You will like Luster if you appreciate:
✨ Belletrist recommendations
✨ Love triangles
✨ Blunt unpacking of loneliness, sex, racism and power

You will like Today Tonight Tomorrow if you appreciate:
✨ Enemies to Lovers
✨ Young Adult romance
✨ Confronts anti-Semitism, bullying, and microaggressions

So, in my last Weekly Wrap, I said I would read The V Girl by Mya Roberts and How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Yet, the way this past week has worked out, I’ve read neither, so I’m adding them to this week’s TBR. Check out my last post to read my thoughts on those books!

I’m going to try and be ambitious this week and still continue with my Up Next list. So, I’m still including this week’s three TBRs:

Gluttony is the third book in The Damning series. I started reading the series because of its assassin heroine and because of its reverse harem genre. The ending of the first book also really hooked me with its plot twist and (sorta) cliffhanger.

✨ Reverse Harem
✨ Assassin heroine
✨ Second chance romance
✨ Royalty
✨ Chosen Ones
✨ Rebellion

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is an important book and unflinching account of the insidiousness of rape culture that has been normalized in our society. Even in democratic countries, allegations of rape are met with silence and demonizing the victim.

It is not up to the general population to believe someone has been raped or not–if someone says they were robbed, do we question them? Yet, even when there are proof and witnesses to the rape, courts are unwilling (unable) to prosecute, and society rationalizes and victimized the rapist.

I’m reading What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape because I need to understand how a person’s immediate reaction is to say, of course, they are lying… even when the accused is a celebrity and someone you don’t know.

I picked up Not So Pure and Simple because I was interested in how a YA novel would confront toxic masculinity and how society understands a “real man” to be.

I’m really excited to read this book. It’s supposed to be hilarious but also addresses the tendency of men (and boys) to ignore the voices of women (and girls).

✨ Young Adult
✨ Unpacks religion, masculinity and sexuality
✨ Feminism
✨ Friendship

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Imaged are three books I bought this week:
✨ Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
✨ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
✨ Thin Girls by Diana Clarke

I’m releasing two book reviews: one on Wednesday and the other on Saturday. My theme this week is feminism, specifically rape culture.

I’m also considering doing a bi-weekly book haul post where I talk about all the books I’ve purchased [whether on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited (KU) or hardcopy] and why. I’ve found myself in recent weeks discussing with my friends and family about why I buy a book on Kindle as opposed to hardcopy (usually it’s because I want to read the book right that moment). But, sometimes it is because the ebook is cheaper or the author only publishes ebooks.

I used to be an “only hardcopy books” reader. But, since I was 15, I’ve read over 300 books and that adds up when you’re spending $25+ on a book. So, I’ve discovered KU and Kindle to help lower my costs.

Also, by looking at the books I’m buying you can see what books I’m prioritizing on my Want to Read list.