Hi. So I'm back with another readathon
TBR because...readathons. I love them.
This is my TBR for banned bookathon which is a readathon that takes place during
banned books week and you read books
that have been banned or challenged from
libraries or schools. This year there's a
focus on diversity.
Yeah I just...I love everything about this. I'm currently still reading American Gods
by Neil Gaiman. I need to finish it.
But thankfully I looked it up and this
is a banned book. It has been challenged
in the past and so I'm going to try to
finish it during the week. It's so long. The other books that I've picked out.....
I didn't go as ambitious as I did with
diverseathon because obviously I did
not succeed in all of my books on that.
So I'm pretty sure I have a doable list
this time. So, the other books I want to
read are I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou and this is her memoir.
And it's a really famous book. I'm pretty sure
you've heard of it. But I've never read this.
I think that this has been banned
because there is a pretty detailed
account of rape in this book. I'm not
completely sure. I think it'll be really
important to hear her story. This is her actual life.
This next one is also
semi-autobiographical. It's The Absolutely
True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by
Sherman Alexie. This is a young adult
novel about a Native American boy who has some sort of physical deformity that I
think ostracizes him from his peers and
he decides to go to a white school
instead of the Native American School
where he was attending. I've heard so many
great things about Sherman Alexie and
I've never read one of his books.
And then the other book that I want to read
is The House on Mango Street by Sandra
Cisneros. This is a very short novel.
As you can see, it's just like... little vignettes. I think that this is
about people growing up in a Latino area
in Chicago..? Again, have never read one of
her books and I would like to. Yeah!
That's my TBR. There's only four books on
But like I said, American Gods is really
long.
If I finish all these books I think my
backup book might be Scorpions by
Walter Dean Myers. We'll see if I get to that. That's... that's a maybe.
Not totally sure if I'm going to be vlogging
the read-a-thon like I did with
diverseathon just because diverseathon's vlog was kind of a struggle for me and I
don't know if I'm going to want to do that
again so soon but maybe.
So, yeah. Happy banned books week! And I think that's it. It's a short one.
Okay. Goodbye!
