Creator G from Book Roast Video announcement:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgH5UcBGPS8 Will take place from June 22 to 28 As of late developments based on comments made by the Harry Potter author, that made a huge impact on the whole community.  Personally, the author's opinion angers me but as said before this readathon is based on the world and as it was set up before we will continue but it will probably be the last one. We have been given the map for the visit complete with the prompts, the printable can be found here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VB4J5n9OI0bPpRavtoS0Rv398_zxDPoK So first we must leave the castle and to do that the first challenge: 1. In order to leave Hogwarts: Read a book with a  map The Heroe of Ages by Brandon Sanderson the third Mistborn trilogy.  We will get to see what Vin and her partner will do in order to fight the Deepness if they can finish what not even the Lord Ruler was able to do when there was a lot more info...

Author: Tracy K. Smith Genre: Poetry Original publication date: Book description: With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Thoughts: This is a collection presented in 4 parts and there are several themes: the cultural impact of David Bowie, the calmness of life on earth on many occasions, the d...

  She is an American author. Some of her works include: Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones, and Men We Reaped. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University. Her official webpage:  https://www.jesmynwardauthor.com/index.html I initially found her by one of her works as Editor the book was The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race. Here is the blog where I gave my initial thoughts  https://readaholic-anonymous.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-fire-this-time.html  in case you want to take a look. I did intend to look for some of her other books and they seemed very interesting and I think right now is one of the best times to promote authors who are tackling the topics of social issues in our society.  So I am going to list some of her books I really feel inclined to pick: *Salvage the Bones is about people fac...

Author: Audre Lorde Narrator: Robin Eller Genre: Nonfiction Original publication date: June 1984 Book Description (from Scribd): Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published Thoughts: This is a very compelling writing style and it covers very impactful topics, it not just the theme but the way it was expressed. We have feminism, social justice, or making the ...

It's already the middle of the month of the middle of 2020. So this is the time to celebrate and bring attention to a few aspects of the books encountered this year. This is not an original tag, I have seen many creators use it and by now I am not sure who to give the credit for. But thank you to those very imaginative minds who are providing the prompts that I can use today. For the selections rereads are not going to be eligible. Let's start: Questions: 1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2020  This is difficult I have read very good books and books I had been anticipating for such a long time especially in Fantasy.  So just like mentioned in my ranking of books read I did a few weeks ago the crown is still so far with Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. ( Rank Every 5 and 4-star rating ) We follow a few people, in the outskirts of Elantris a city that was the home to powerful people who were considered Gods. A decade ago something changed Elantrians became monsters, instead of a...

Full title: Fatal invention: How science, politics, and big business recreate race in the twenty-first century Author: Dorothy Roberts Genre: Nonfiction Original publication date: June 2011 Book Description (from Good Reads): A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in our society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time when America claims to be post-racial. Moving from an account of the evolution of race—proving that it has...

Author: L. Frank Baum Series: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series 4-6 Original Publication date: the stories were published in 1908, 1909 and 1910. It seems the series was published one a year. The collection of the series in this compound was done in 2013. Book description:  In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard visit the center of the Earth, where people are vegetables, glass houses grow, and Oz characters reappear. Eventually they return to the Emerald City—but will they stay? In The Road to Oz, Dorothy sets out on another adventure with some new friends like the Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, and Polychrome, and some old ones like the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. Will they reach the Emerald City in time for Ozma’s birthday? In The Emerald City of Oz, Dorothy, her Uncle Henry, and Aunt Em are going to live in the Emerald City. They set out of explore the land of Oz with the help of Dorothy’s friends, but must rush home again when they discover that the Nome King is...