Checking In
How were your May reads?
Comment below to share anything about this month’s reading experience.
We’d also love to plug the Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Bookstagram Tour that Mylynn & Jade co-hosted this year to highlight & amplify ANHPI voices in bookstagram.
You can find the Instagram account @anhpibookstagramtour to see the full schedule & check out many first-timers to the tour this year. We hope you will continue to uplift ANHPI creators, authors, & stories all year long ❤
Monthly prompts
June Prompts
We can’t wait to see what yall read for this month’s prompts - all should be by racialized authors:
Click below for our recommendations & our tbrs this month:
Bookish Millennials Book Club
Virtual synchronous meetings
Thanks to Andrew, Emily, Katelyn, and Maanvee for joining our book club meeting to discuss Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline.
Our fourteenth book club meeting will be on June 27th at 2pm Pacific Time to discuss:
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology, edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung
Links to purchase:
Bookish Millennials Book Club
Other ways to virtually read together 😆
Can’t join book club, but still want to discuss this month’s prompts with TDB community members?
Join a public StoryGraph readalong or chat about the books in TDB Discord instead!
RSVP for Steamy Lit Book Club’s Reading Rainbow (Queer Book Club) for June: Jade moderates the virtual book club, and is facilitating a book club conversation via Zoom on Saturday, June 27th at 12pm PT to discuss More Like Enemigas by Stephanie Hope
Bookish Millennials Book Club
Book Club Housekeeping
The #bookish-millennials-book-club channel is meant for general book club chitchat.
In #book-club-forums, you will find:
a forum for each book and respective prompt that Jade is reading that month
links to the book club and readalongs on StoryGraph
affiliate links to purchase the books (ebook, print, & audiobook if available)
the synchronous Discord video call event if applicable
These individual forums are an option for you to post thoughts on the books in case you aren’t joining on StoryGraph.
The #book-club-video-calls voice channel is where we meet synchronously each month to discuss the book of the month.
Vote for times/dates & books each month on the Book Club tab on Storygraph.
Let Jade know if you have questions about book club.
Book Reviews
Review Boosts
A few reviews we appreciated this month:
Make sure to use the hashtag #TheDiverseBaseline on all social media, so we can find & spotlight your book reviews.
TDB Community
Community Care
Taking action against ICE in the U.S.: National Immigrant Justice Center
Petition & call your U.S. reps to fight against book banning and censorship: Oppose HR 7661
If you have any initiatives you’d like to boost in our newsletter and on the Discord server, comment below or email us at [email protected]
About the challenge & the hosts
Jade is a reader from the San Francisco Bay Area. She hosts the challenge’s book club, Bookish Millennials Book Club, Steamy Lit’s Reading Rainbow Book Club, and the SF Bay Area chapter of Cassie’s Walking Club on Strava. She can be found on social media here.
Margherita is a reader and indie author from Italy. Xe can be found on instagram and substack. Xyr author website (pen name) with xyr books and editorial services can be found here.
Mylynn is a reader from Guam/Arizona. She can be found in the kitchen after midnight like the gremlin she is and also on instagram, storygraph, and more here.
The official StoryGraph challenge is hosted on StoryGraph & our carrd can be found here: thediversebaseline.carrd.co