How were your January reads? Comment below to share anything about this month’s reading experience.
Join us for our next Instagram Live (username: bookish.millennial) on Sunday, February 22 at 12pm PT for icebreakers, book giveaways, and a chat about how the month of reading & media went!
February Prompts
We can’t wait to see what yall read for this month’s prompts - all should be by racialized authors:
Bookish Millennials Book Club
Synchronous Virtual Meeting
Thank you to Chloe, Andrew, Katelyn, Katie, Cass, and Alison for joining our eighth book club meeting to discuss The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava;
….and to Georgie, Andrew, & Lucia for joining our ninth book club meeting to discuss Rez Ball by Byron Graves.
We will be meeting next on Saturday, February 28th at 2pm Pacific Time to discuss:
“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans” by Dina Gilio-Whitaker and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, which Brittany is reading for the February prompt: “nonfiction about communities Indigenous to occupied U.S.”
Links to purchase:
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 the Fable book club instead!
About immigrant narratives: In The Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
Fiction by a South Asian author: Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman
Nonfiction about communities Indigenous to occupied U.S.: “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans” by Dina Gilio-Whitaker and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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 Brittany is reading that month
links to the book club and readalongs on StoryGraph
affiliate links to purchase the books (ebook, print, & audiobook)
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 or Fable.
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 Brittany know if you have questions about book club.
Review Boost
Community Care
Here are a few resources that we’d like to highlight this month:
Mod Moments
Take a trip to Malta with this digital trip diary from the Mediterranean island with over 90 pages of photos and reflections. Interlines is my way to bring the world home and to show that there's more that unites us than divides us. It's available for purchase from my website in both print and digital formats. — Andrew
We also would like to wish our moderator Candy a happy birthday! (February 2)
February Recommendations
About the hosts & the challenge
Brittany 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