Monthly Motif: January Update

January 2018 Monthly Motif: Diversify Your Reading

Honestly, I probably did better with this prompt than I’ll do with the whole rest of the year.

Books read:

• Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings, the story of a young transgender girl growing up in a world that didn’t always accept her.
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon, the story of two Indian-American teenagers who are encouraged by their parents to date.
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, the story of police brutality told through the eyes of the black victim and his white classmate who witnesses everything.
• The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson, the story of a teenage boy who finds himself living in a hospital after his entire family dies in a car accident, and the boy who is admitted to the hospital after his classmates set him on fire for being gay.
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a memoir about growing up black in America.

Books not read:

• At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson, an LGBT romance that also deals with mental illness. (I’m hoping I’ll get around to this one in February. I just didn’t have time in January!)

Some of these reviews are already up and some are queued to post soon. If you participated in the Monthly Motif reading challenge this month, what were your choices for this prompt?