Day 4: Young Adult
If you’ve been following me for a while you know I don’t really get into Young Adult so much. I feel like it’s written for young people so I don’t have to like it. This being said I had to think on what I had that was different from the typical Angie Thomas and company. So I started combing my shelves and found X by Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolmp X’s third daughter and Kekla Magoon. Haven’t read it yet because not a priority but I feel like this one would be great for YA readers. Here’s what it’s about:
“I am Malcolm.
I am my father’s son. But to be my father’s son means that they will always come for me.
They will always come for me, and I will always succumb.
Malcolm Little’s parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that’s nothing but a pack of lies—after all, his father’s been murdered, his mother’s been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There’s no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and reefer.
But Malcolm’s efforts to leave the past behind lead him into increasingly dangerous territory when what starts as some small-time hustling quickly spins out of control. Deep down, he knows that the freedom he’s found is only an illusion—and that he can’t run forever.
X follows Malcolm from his childhood to his imprisonment for theft at age twenty, when he found the faith that would lead him to forge a new path and command a voice that still resonates today.” (X, cover)
Day 5: Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction is my favorite. So I had no trouble choosing Colson Whitehead which has slowly become my book bae since I started reading him. I really do admire his capacity to tell all sorts of important stories in different ways. I decided to go with The Intuitionist because it’s probably one of the titles by Whitehead that is the least spoken about. This copy was a gift to me and I’m finally going to make room for it on my TBR this year, to be specific next month. Have you read The Intuitionist? What book by Colson Whitehead do you love the most?
“Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female inspector and a devout Intuitionist with the highest accuracy rate in the department, is at the center of the turmoil. An elevator in a new municipal building has crashed on Lila Mae’s watch, fanning the flames of the Empiticist-Intuitionist feud and compelling Lila Mae to go underground to investigate. As she endeavors to clear her name, she becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that leads her to a secret that will change her life forever.
A dead-serious and seriously funny feat of the imagination, The Intuitionist conjures a parallel universe in which latent ironies in matters of morality, politics, and race come to light, and stands as the celebrated debut of an important American writer.” (The Intuitionist, inside flap)
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