Read Diverse Books Year-Round returns a little later than usual this month because I wanted to time it with Latinx Heritage Month, which kicks off tomorrow, September 15th. It’s going to be very exciting and busy month for me and my blog, but I can’t wait to celebrate with a month’s worth of content! –…
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Latinx Heritage Month kicks off today! I’m so excited to share a month’s worth of content with you all. I will have guest posts, author Q&As, bibliography spotlights, reviews, and giveaways! Don’t be alarmed, I will not be posting something new every day. My goal is to provide 3 posts per week, so I encourage you…
via 20+ Books To Read During AND After Latinx Heritage Month — Read Diverse Books
I decided to read Radiance because poetry is the literary genre that I have neglected to explore most, even more than nonfiction. So I figured a good way to conquer this long-standing aversion to reading poetry would be to create a reading list to start off and adhere to it stubbornly. Radiance jumped to the top of the list…
via Review – Radiance: Poems by Emanuel Xavier — Read Diverse Books
Last week, I reviewed Radiance, a stellar book of poems by Emanuel Xavier. To continue celebrating Latinx voices during Latinx Heritage Month, I wanted to follow up my review with a Q&A with the writer himself. I’m thrilled to have him on the blog today, as he recommends other poets we should be reading and compares life…
via A Q&A With Poet , Editor, And Activist Emanuel Xavier — Read Diverse Books
How To Build A Museum by Tonya Bolden Smithsonian Series; Viking (Penguin) Kirkus: “An inspiring tale as well as a tantalizing invitation to visit one of our country’s newest “must see” attractions. (source notes)” When the museum itself is history, the story needs to be document and the best way to do that is with […]
I want to thank Laila from Big Reading Life for cross-posting this review on my blog for Latinx Heritage Month. Be sure to visit and follow her blog! ◊ Esperanza Rising is a book I can wholeheartedly recommend to everyone. (How often do you get to say that?) It’s a middle-grade novel, published in 2000,…
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October is almost upon us, which means many of you will soon be in the mood for spooky and dark reads. Well, I’ve got the perfect book for you! Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s upcoming novel, Certain Dark Things, will release on October 25th. Just in time for Halloween! Today, the author of this exciting paranormal thriller is here to…
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By Claudia Meléndez Salinas It’s Monday evening and more than 200 youngsters pour into the gym of Alisal High, a school located in the heart of one of the poorest neighborhoods in California’s central coast. The children, most dressed in the gold and black colors of the Gil Basketball Academy, are not high school […]
A guest post by Iliana Rocha: Follow @la_ilianarocha ◊ I’ve been thinking a lot lately about poetry & its relationship to community, & the place I keep arriving at is that, for me, poetry is community. One of the questions I get asked the most is why I turned to the genre in the first place:…
via A ‘Wish for Someplace Else’: Latinx Poetry As Community — Read Diverse Books
For many, Parks was the quiet seamstress and mother of the Civil Rights Movement when in fact, she was so much more.As a child she listened to her grandfather, who admired the teachings of Marcus Garvey, tell stories of a unification and empowerment of black people. Hearing these stories of struggle,…
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