hi guys i'm andrea and welcome to my
booktube channel today i'm here with my
latinxathon tbr.
I have a lot of books in this tbr so
it's maybe a little bit
too ambitious but it's okay because
there's lots of really cool latinx
you know stuff and events, bookish things
happening during latinx heritage month
so hopefully those can just
move on over to that and it kind of be
like very smooth
and if not then i just have a lot of
really great sounding books to read
For the first prompt of voices i have
two books the first being,
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz she is a
puerto rican writer this is a memoir.
This memoir is about growing up poor in
puerto rico and miami about the kind of
dissolution of her family,
her mother's schizophrenia and kind of
finding family with your friends. It also
deals
depression, mental illness, sexual assault
and Puerto Rico's history of colonialism
I know this book also fits the promise
of latinidad as Jaquira identifies as gay and
queer.
And it might fit roots i'm not sure as I
haven't actually opened the book yet
but it may have some spanish in there
i'm not sure. And then my second book uh
is actually a poetry collection its Sana Sana
by Ariana Brown and i'm going to be
reading this if i actually get it
on time, i've been waiting for this book
for like a month and it's still not here
but that's besides the point! Anyway so
Ariana Brown is a Black mexican-american
poet from San Antonio
tTxas and i'm a really big fan of her
spoken word, there's a lot of really cool
um poetry slams she's participated in
and i'll be leaving links
somewhere here um but she's super good
and i really
admire her and this is her debut chap
book
collection and it explores black girlhood
the
possibilities of queerness, finding your
people and trying to survive capitalism.
Priscilla over at bookie charm and
another latinxathon co-host she did
a really great video review on this
and I heard there's a poem on Ozuna,
which makes me very excited
This book also fits the prompt of
that as Ariana
identifies as queer and it also fits the
prompt of roots because i do think there
is spanglish
in this poetry collection. For the second
prompt of latinidad which is read a book
written by an intersectional latinx
author i have the undocumented
immigrants by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
and it looks like this! I got the
hardcover copy the other day
and it's about Karla who is the first
undocumented -- one of the first
undocumented immigrants to graduate from
Harvard
but basically she explores the stories
of other undocumented
immigrants and americans in the u.s as
well as her own
and kind of telling their stories while
interleaving hers in it i think as well
so i'm really excited for this one and
she is Ecuadorian
This fits as Karla identifies as queer
so yeah i'm very excited about this one!
Next book i want to talk about is
Children of the Land A Memoir by
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Another memoir!
i'm very non-fiction centric this year,
this round of latinxathon!
But it's about Marcelo growing up
undocumented in the US and it follows
his
kind of journey and attempt as he tries
to build a future in a nation that
denies his
existence i'm really interested in this
book as well because his family is from
the Tepichitlan
Zacatecas, which apparently is like one
hour away from my dad's
hometown um so i'm sure i'll recognize
some of the names in here which is kind
of exciting!
but yeah he is a Mexican writer.
And then for the prompt of roots it just
read a translated book or a book
featuring more than one language
i have Tender is the Flesh and this is
my first fiction book of the bunch
by Agustina Bazterrica
and she is an Argentinian writer, this is
a translated
book, original language was in Spanish.
But basically
it's about um this world where this
infectious disease kind of overtakes the
planet and
like animal meat becomes poisonous to
humans so
governments legalize cannibalization
basically and it followed Marcos who
is a worker at a local processing plant
who after a mysterious encounter
is very conflicted on the meat he eats
yeah and i'm sure this will have a lot
of
gross and gory things! *noise outside* I think that
was a ups man!
And then for the next prompt
of heritage which was
reading a book written by the author
from a non-spanish-speaking latin
american country
or heritage i have My Life
as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi,
i've read a bunch of her other work and
i'm a really big fan of it
um i really enjoy her writing and i was
trying to look for something that was
lighter than everything else that i was
choosing to read
i've been choosing a lot of memoirs on
fiction heavy things horror
so i wanted like a nice little middle
grade to kind of balance everything out
and i've
really been wanting to read this book
for like the longest time basically this
book is about 12 year old Ebony who
who loves all things sci-fi and honestly
SAME.
and she lives with her grandfather
Jeremiah but then something happens
and she has to live with her father in
Harlem
for a few weeks and she discovers that
Harlem has a really special
place for sci-fi as well and it looks
like it's gonna be super cute and i love
the cover it's so cute! Yeah hopefully i'll make a nice wrap
up to
everything else i'll be reading. Number
five is the
group book which is#latinxlittakeover
and that
a group book is By Any Means Necessary
by Candice Montgomery
Candice is an Afro-Brazilian author
and this book actually also fulfills the
prompts of voices, latinidad, and
heritage. The author
is from brazilian heritage which is a
non-spanish-speaking country
and she is also non-binary
and Muslim,
it might also fit roots but i'm not sure
if
there's Portuguese in here and i haven't
opened it to check or anything like that
so it might actually fit all prompts not
sure! This book sounds like it's going to
be a lot of
fun i'm just going to read the blurb on
the back um on the day Torrey moves and
officially becomes a college freshman he
gets a call that might force him to drop
out before he
even made it through orientation. The
bank is for closing on the bee farm
his Uncle Miles left him toys worked
hard to become the first member of his
family to go to college.
But when the neighborhood held him back
emotionally uncle miles encouraged him
to reach his full potential.
For years it was just the two of them
attending the farm and
Torret can't let someone else erase his
uncle's legacy without a fight.
It sounds like it's going to be a lot of
fun to read i'm really excited for it
and we have
a very cool announcement surrounding
this book
coming soon so keep an eye on our social
media platforms.
Those are most of the books i'm going to
read i also want to check out this
um this comic i got in the mail of the
day it's called mundo diablo
it technically doesn't fit any of the of the prompts
maybe roots?
maybe roots? um but mundo diablo is a
comic book that is based off of
the tv show Diablero, which i am a big
fan of and the person you see here on
the cover is
the main character of the tv show called
elvis
and it is available to stream on netflix
if you haven't already seen it
um it follows kind of a monster of the
week
um arc i guess you could say
but i really like it because the main
characters the main demon hunters
they draw on their indigenous background
to defeat monsters which isn't something
i've necessarily
seen before in tv or movies.
Those are all the books that i'm
planning on reading for learning exactly
on
let me know if you're participating and
what books you're reading i'd be super
super interested in finding out if you
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but yeah thanks for watching and i'll
see you all next time bye!
