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F is for Friday

Hey book nerds. Welcome back to F is for Friday. It’s been a week around the world. As I said on Monday I can’t really talk about the politics of the matter, BUT I can and will amplify voices. I addressed this in my latest video, which is at the bottom of this post, and on both my personal and bookstagram, which I’ll put down below.

Let’s start with the rules for this meme.

How to participate in the meme:
1. Credit the creator of this tag (Lyn from Nomadic worlds ) and link back.
2. Answer the four questions to the best of your ability.
3. Most important of all, enjoy yourself!
Questions:
F – Feature your latest book obsession (it doesn’t have to be your current read)
I – Indicate which book/s you are looking forward to reading this weekend.
F – Favorite quote of the week/day
F – Five things you’re happy or grateful for this week

F – Feature Your Latest Book Obsession.

The March trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell is the auto-biographical story of John Lewis, a leader of the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1960s. He is now a House Representative. This was a very enlightening, but very hard read. I recommend reading it if you’re looking for a place to start understanding what is going on in the United States.

I – Indicate which books you are excited to read this weekend.

Two books. The print book I’m reading this weekend is Blind Man’s Bluff by Sherry Sontag, which is a nonfiction on American submarine espionage.

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine ...

The audiobook I’m listening to is Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas by Ibram X. Kendi. This was on several reading lists I have seen floating around Instagram and Facebook. I’m only on Chapter 3 and only just over an hour in, but am listening as I’m writing this and wow. Please pick this up.

Stamped From The Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi

F – Favorite Quote of the Week/Day

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to ...
Ethiopian Proverb

F – Five things you are grateful or happy for this week.

  1. Being given resources to find amazing creators, BookTubers, and books that should have been readily available before everything kicked off.
  2. Amplifying as much as I can.
  3. Being given the opportunity to fix my gaps in knowledge and become a better person.
  4. My amazing fiance who has the patience of a saint with my anxiety and weird mood swings.
  5. The world demanding change.

That wraps up F is for Friday this week. PLEASE check out all the resources and Lyn at Nomadic Worlds. Let me know if you did the meme too.

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F is for Friday – May 29, 2020

F is For Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Nomadic Worlds, but I found it through Audra @ Audra’s Book Blabbing. Thanks Lyn and Audra!

Let’s start with the Rules:

  1. Credit the creator of this tag (click here) and link back.
  2. Answer the four questions.
  3. Most important of all, enjoy yourself.

Questions:

F- Feature your latest book obsession (it doesn’t have to be your current read)

I- Indicate which book/s you are looking forward to reading this weekend.

F – Favorite quote of the week/day

F – Five things you’re happy or grateful for this week.

F – Feature your latest book obsession

Owlcrate

This book was great. Five stars. I recently finished this book, as in Wednesday. It was very nostalgic and reminded me of fantasy stories I read as a kid. Based on Welsh mythology and folkore, The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones was gripping, easy read with fantastic characters, a great romance, and an undead goat. Additionally, it has great representation (in my opinion) of chronic pain. I have an old injury that has been plaguing me for years and that’s represented beautifully in this work.

I – Indicate which book/s you are looking forward to reading this weekend.

Amber & Dusk by Lyra Selene - The Literary Phoenix

Amber and Dusk by Lyra Selene is the LAST book on my May TBR and it will be book number 8 this month. Its been a great reading month overall. I really hope this book lives up to the rest of the books this month. Sylvie has always thought she deserved more than what her life in the Dusklands has to offer. Her guardians believer her ability to conjure illusions is a curse and not a blessing, but Sylvie disagrees. She sets out for the palais at Coeur d’Or, the home of the Amber Empress. Promising to be full of palace intrigue, I’m looking forward to wrapping this month up with a good read. It has 3.57 stars on GoodReads.

F – Favorite Quote of the day/week

“And sometimes, you are going to be/ as fierce as a dragon/ armed in scales of impenetrable gold/ and sometimes you are going to be/ as vulnerable as a lamb,/ soft and comforting in newborn wool./ Both versions of you deserve to be loved./ Both versions of you are needed./ Both versions of you are beautiful.” – Dragon & Lamb by Nikita Gill.

I have been having the WORST week, but this made me feel moderately better.

F – Five things you’re happy or grateful for this week.

  1. My wonderful fiance. This man has been my rock. Providing me with copious amounts of wine, coffee, and cuddles through an anxiety inducing week that broke me down to the core and exhausted me. His patience and understanding ave been necessary.
  2. My fantastic friends. Kim, Amanda, Julia, Talyn. These women have made my life infinitely better. I would not be the same person without them. Thank you so much ladies
  3. Coffee. Coffee has quite literally made this week bearable at work.
  4. Books. It has given me an escape that I desperately needed.
  5. My sisters. I have three beautiful and talented sisters who make me strive to be a better person. Fi-monster, See-Me, and Bear this is for you my loves.

Thanks for stopping by! Please let me know if you did this meme. I would love to stop by and read your news. Stay tuned for more great stuff in the next few weeks, including my June TBR. If you’re impatient, you can alway go check out my YouTube.

Thanks to Audra at Audra’s Book Blabbing and Lyn at Nomadic Worlds, again!