Book Tag Thursday: Women’s History Month Book Tag
As always for this segment, I will find awesome book tags throughout the vast, wide inter-webs and complete mini-challenges. I’ll hope you’ll have fun and participate with me as well!
Today’s Topic: Women’s History Month Book Tag
Found At: ZezeeWithBooks
Rules:
- Thank the person who tagged you and link back to their post.
- Link to the creator’s blog in your post
- Answer the questions below using only books written by women
- Feel free to use the same graphics
- Tag 8 others to take part in the tag
This is My America is novel that packs a powerful punch throughout its entire narrative. It discusses a wide range of topics including mass incarceration, the Black experience, death penalty, racism, police brutality, and many other issues. The main character discovers that something deeper is happening in her town and strives to find out the truth even if that means putting herself in danger to save her family.
I appreciated having a main character in the STEM field in The Boyfriend Project who openly discusses her struggles with being a Black woman and fighting against odds in her career. It’s admirable and nice to see how Samiah is so passionate about her job and wanting to be a role model for young girls interested in the STEM field.
The Right Swipe takes an interesting look at the interesting book that takes a deeper look at the world of online dating with a focus on dating apps. I liked how the main character is the creator of a dating app and how she details the struggles of being a woman working in the tech field and what goes into to creating an app at it’s core.
Becoming Beatriz is a YA historical fiction novel set in the 1980s. From the first pages we are introduced to the main character, Beatriz, who dreams of dancing along side her favorite actors in Fame (the TV show) and is hoping for an escape from her daily life. She has a lyrical writing style which flows throughout the narrative and keeps her readers constantly engaged with the story. Her writing feels a lot like poetry.
I searched around for this prompt, but coudn’t find a book to fit it.
There are so many interesting concepts in this novel. Its fresh, unique and everything I want in a Sci-Fi novel. One of the aspects I enjoyed is how the fantasy elements have a somewhat magical quality to them. It’s slow paced with immersive world building process. It leaves the reader shrouded in mystery and you have to put the pieces of the story together
Who Put This Song On? follows the story of Morgan who is a girl who lives with depression, anxiety, and feels like a constant outsider. The novel is read like a diary and each chapter felt like a personal essay of some sorts. The overall tone of the novel is emotional, snarky, and somewhat humorous even though the story tackles some heavy subjects. I felt like the story is relatable and talks about how mental illness is stigmatized in the Black community.
Honey Girl is one of those. Its a story about falling in love and finding yourself. Grace has been working so hard to get her Astronomy degree and now she’s unsure of what to do since her whole life has been mapped out for her till this point. Her experience of burn out is relatable to its audience. I really admired her tenacity of defeating the odds in her field as she discusses being of Queer and Black in the STEM experience at somepoint in their life.
For me this novel read a lot deeper and I like how it sets itself apart from other time travel novels. Butler is a fantastic writer and I loved how she created the characters, attention to detail, crafting the plot, and exploring race through a Sci-Fi lens. Butler paints a very real portrait of history and this book shows many horrors of the past. Dana’s journey is many things: harrowing, terrifying, visceral, and difficult to read at times.
This book is a wonderful collection of essays by Black women (actresses, authors, poets) expressing their love for literature and reading. I loved how personal each essay was and how the collection focuses on recognizing yourself in literature ehich is very important to me. As for a woman in my life, I will always be inspired by my mom since she is a influential figure in my life.
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Enjoyed the post. Especially liked your Mae Jemison entry. Escaping Exodus is a fave.
I think I heard Escaping Exodus just came out with a sequel, so I’m curious to read it. Glad you enjoyed the post.