April's First Class Post & Monthly Recap

First Class Post - because this post is first class!

Books Purchased:

Physical copies:

I Stop Somewhere by T. E. Carter (19th April 2018 - 2018 YA debut)
Emergency Contact by Mary H. C. Choi (27th March 2018 - 2018 YA debut)
Alice by Christina Henry (28th June 2016)

Books received for free from the publishers in exchange for an honest review:

Books with an * are reading copies I received as a book seller.

Proofs:

Ivory & Onyx by Mindee Arnett (15th May 2018)
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson (22nd May 2018) For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig* (25th September 2018)

Finished Copies:

On a Scale of One to Ten by Ceylan Scott (3rd May 2018 - 2018 UKYA debut)

eARCs:



Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (16th January 2018)
Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence (17th May 2018)
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (15th May 2018)


 

Mirage by Somaiya Daud (28th August 2018 - 2018 YA Debut)
Tradition by Brendan Kiely (3rd May 2018)
Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla (4th June 2018)

Thank you to Harper 360, Chicken House, Molly Ker Hawn at The Bent Agency, and The Borough Press, HarperVoyager, Hodder & Stoughton, Penguin Random House Children's Books, Hodder Children's Books via NetGalley for the review copies.

Check out mail memes: The Sunday Post on Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Stacking the Shelves on Tynga's Reviews.
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On the blog:

Reviews:

• The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X. R. Pan - Oh my god, this story was just so beautiful! So moving, heartbreaking, and completely wonderful!
• The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross - This was such a disappointment. Nothing. Happened. For so many chapters. I was just so bored. Not a great retelling, in my opinion.
• I Stop Somewhere by T. E. Carter- Oh my god, this book is absolutely incredible. It is a very difficult read, very harrowing, but so powerful and so important.

Other Posts:

• Ramadan Readathon 2018: My TBR Pile - Self-explanatory; the Ramadan Readathon is back for another year, so I've listed the books I plan on reading for the month.
• Blog Tour: The Girl in the Broken Mirror - Savita Kalhan's Favourite Books that Deal With Rape

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What I've Been Reading Online:

Books:

• Q&A with Ebony Elizabeth Thomas: Why Children Need More Diverse Books
• Girl Squads Author Sam Maggs Reveals Cover and Talks Bringing Feminist History to Comics
• 7 New Fantasies You'll Love... and 7 Past Favourites to Pair Them With

Authors:

• Meet Justina Ireland, YA Twitter's Leading Warrior
• Why the New Wave of East Asian Authors is Targetting YA
• Young Adult Novelist Emily X. R. Pan Didn't Mean to Write a Buddhist Book
• Katherine Locke: Thinking About Jewish Children's Literature in a Time of Antisemitism
• Emily X.R. Pan Wants to Change the Way we Talk About Mental Health — and Asian Moms

Misc.:

• Patrice Caldwell Believes Book Publishing Needs More People Of Color, So She Founded An Organization To Make It Happen

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