Reading Lately #4

Reading Lately: Becoming, So You Want to Talk About Race, Matchmaking for Beginners | books to read | Cotton Cashmere Cat Hair

Reading Lately

WHEW, it’s been a while since my last Reading Lately post. (Six months to be exact!) I couldn’t find the time to read between everything going on over the winter and spring (it was college gymnastics season!) and finally picked it back up at the end of spring and early summer. Now, I’m back with three more finished books! I think I need a good beach vacation or something PRONTO so I can get to reading through the rest of my list, which seems to be growing faster than it’s shrinking!

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For ease, and especially for my fellow Kindle readers, all of the links below go to Amazon. If you are able, please support your local bookstores right now (and always)! Bookshop.org donates a percentage of sales to local bookstores, and if you’re local to me, check out Rediscovered Books—I buy physical books there (via pickup!). There are also a number of Black-owned bookstores that need support. Find one near you in this list of over 50 Black-owned bookstores arranged by state (all have online stores and a couple are online only).

RECENTLY READ

  • Becoming by Michelle Obama (Kindle): This is by far the longest book I’ve read in a long time. Whew! I loved learning more about our former First Lady, her family, and the sort of behind-the-scenes peek at life inside the White House. Embarrassingly, I didn’t know too much about Michelle Obama prior to reading this book, but I’m so in awe of her and her accomplishments! She’s an inspiration. (The parts about 45 made me absolutely sick to my stomach.)

  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: This important anti-racism book came highly recommended by everyone. It’s absolutely worth your time if you haven’t read it. It will make you more fully aware of exactly what we (people working to be anti-racists) are working to end when it comes to systemic racism in America. Oluo’s retelling of personal accounts of racism throughout her life are shocking and heartbreaking and yet, her experiences are very real for Black people everywhere. Read it, absorb it, sit with it.

  • Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson (Kindle): I started this book, and I thought it was very odd at first and I was reading it slowly. Then, I could barely put it down, especially near the end! It’s a sweet story that you may or may not find predictable, but I don’t mind predictable feel-good stories at all. The main character, Marnie, thinks her life is going to end in the perfect storybook ending…until it doesn’t. I find that I related to Marnie a lot even though my life might look more “typical” than hers! I may or may not have cried a bit at the end.

CURRENTLY READING

  • A Happy Catastrophe by Maddie Dawson (Kindle): Part of the reason why I finished Matchmaking for Beginners so quickly is because this book came up on my list of Amazon recommendations…and turns out A Happy Catastrophe is the sequel. So then I had to finish the first book! This book is already turning out WILD with sort of a twist I wasn’t expecting, but it’s still very sweet overall. I’ll probably tear through this one pretty quickly, too!

  • Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk (Korri’s book): This book teaches you the art of jabbing (creating content and making connections with your audience) before throwing the right hooks (profit-driving campaign) when it comes to social media marketing. With absolutely no background in marketing whatsoever, I need all the help I can get! I love all the visual examples of great vs. bad marketing (jabbing) included in this book. I wish I had a mentor to help me navigate the world of blogging, social media, marketing, etc.!

TO BE READ

These are all the books I have in my possession and plan to read! (Some of these books are technically Korri’s but they live on the shared bookshelves so that basically means they’re mine, too, right?!) I rearranged them in alphabetical order by type (physical, Kindle, or one of Korri’s); the lackadaisical approach I took in my prior posts wasn’t working for me anymore LOL. Like always, I added more books since my last Reading Lately update! My mom sent me a couple books to read, too.

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