A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: 9 books read, including two books from my Up Next Shelf. My three new additions to my want-to-read list explore and challenge fatphobia.
Updates
| Last Week’s Blog Updates | Last Week’s Goodreads Reviews |
|---|---|
| 📖 Weekly Wrap: April 12th to April 18th | 📚 Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas 📚 From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout 📚 The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen 📚 The Traitor’s Queen by Danielle L. Jensen 📚 Fostering Hope by Amanda Perry |
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Weekly Review
What I’ve Read This Week
Key: 🔁 re-read | ❌ DNF | 📜 from my Up Next shelf | 📲 eARC
- Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7) by Sarah J. Maas 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Avatar’s Flight (Age of the Andinna, #7) by Kristen Banet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout 📜 ⭐️⭐️
- The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1) by Danielle L. Jensen 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2) by Danielle L. Jensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Scarlett XOXO by Autumn Reed ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Fostering Hope (Silver Lining, #1) by Amanda Perry 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Finding Serenity (Silver Lining, #2) by Amanda Perry ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Her Reasons (Reasons, #1) by J.L. Akins 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Reading Progress
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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).
You can access my review (rant) of From Blood and Ash here. Also, I wrote a quick review of The Bridge Kingdom here.
Up Next Shelf Progress
A reminder: my Up Next Shelf is comprised of all the unread books I want to read and have purchased.
I read two books from my Up Next Shelf and added 12 new books. I’m going to post my Maytime Book Haul very soon where I unpack my latest haul!
From this shelf, I read From Blood and Ash, which I bought in October 2020. The other book I read from this shelf was The Bridge Kingdom which I mentioned in my September 2020 haul but bought back in October 2019!
You can see that my Up Next Shelf has increased to 145 books through my challenge on The StoryGraph. I’ve read 24 of them – you can access my challenge here.
Click on the button below to access my Up Next Shelf!
Want to Read Updates
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
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
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
The Upcoming Week
To Be Read
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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.
To Look Forward To This Week
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 😅.
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