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Book #28: Caste: The Origin of our Discontent
By: Isabel Wilkerson This book is done very well & I enjoyed it even more than I enjoyed The Warmth of Other Suns (primarily because of the flow of the writing). The author makes a very compelling argument as she compares systemic racist segregation and...
Book #3: On the Come Up
by Angie Thomas Genre: Young Adult, Identity, Coming of Age, Racial Justice What Went Down: Bri struggles to find her own as she navigates her personal trauma, her neighborhood trauma, and...
Book #2: Citizen, An American Lyric
by: Claudia Rankine Genre: Poetry, Racial Justice, Tennis What Went Down: Claudia tells some truly horrific stories through her poetry. She outlines discrimination, profiling, criminalization. There...
Book #1: Beloved
by Tony Morrison Genre: Fiction What Went Down: Beloved is the heart wrenching story of trauma and resilience and slavery and its aftermath. The story takes place in the years immediately following...
2019: A Retrospective
This is NOT a completed list of the books that I read in 2019, but a brief recap of some of the important books that I finished the year reading: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - by Erika L....
These are a few of my favorite books
Here are the JuliaMustReads - the books that have changed my life: Harry Potter Series - All of them - the books though, not the movies Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - by Gail Honeyman...
The Library Challenge
(To anyone who's stumbled upon this page and is beginning to read this blog, here are some things you should know about me: I am a proud member of the Hufflepuff house, I'm a Libra, a Number 4 on...
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