It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
For readers of all ages
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly blog hop we host which focuses on sharing what we’re reading. This Kid Lit version of IMWAYR focuses primarily on books marketed for kids and teens, but books for readers of all ages are shared. We love this community and how it offers opportunities to share and recommend books with each other.
The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. The Kid Lit IMWAYR was co-created by Kellee & Jen at Teach Mentor Texts.
We encourage you to write your own post sharing what you’re reading, link up below, leave a comment, and support other IMWAYR bloggers by visiting and commenting on at least three of the other linked blogs.
Happy reading!
Wednesday: Q&A with Nadine Presley, Author of A Ramadan Night
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Kellee
It’s my week off! But you can learn more about any of the books I’ve been reading by checking out my read bookshelf on Goodreads.
Ricki
I’ve been reading a lot of adult books recently. I think it’s allowing me a bit of escapism. I’ll return to YA soon. 🙂
Picture Book
Goldfinches by Mary Oliver has received a lot of starred reviews. I loved it and immediately pre-ordered a copy for some relatives.
Young Adult
I read What We Did to Survive by Megan Lally with Kellee and two of our other ALAN friends. We had a lot of fun reading this one. It is a page-turner about four teens trying to survive on a boat in the middle of a storm.
Adult
I saw Foster by Claire Keegan on a few lists, so I decided to check it out. I was blown away by the author’s ability to draw me so intensely into the story with such a short text (it is 101 pages). The emotions I felt at the end of the novel were powerful.
Several of my students listed There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib as their favorite book, so I decided to read it. This nonfiction text is incredibly well-written. It is about basketball and life.
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson was a local brewery’s book club text, so I read it (even though I knew I couldn’t attend the book club meeting—ha ha!). This one is well-deserving of all of the praise it has received. The storytelling is stunning.
No Matter What by Cara Bastone is the story of a husband and wife who are struggling in their relationship because of a traumatic accident. It’s a bit of a romance, but it is more about trauma’s effects. I absolutely loved that the narrator was learning to be a figure artist. I asked my art teacher if we could do figure drawing after I read this book. 🙂
Adult Romance
And I consumed adult romances, which are the biggest escape for me, lately, in this world! Highlights about each are below. 
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren: Enemies to lovers. The brother of the groom and identical sister of the bride go on their sibling’s honeymoon when the bride and groom get sick.
The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros. Part historical fiction, part fiction, both stories romance. The narrator is recently divorced and taking care of her great-grandmother’s estate. Her great grandmother is a popular romance writer who never finished her romance story of her own life. Noah, a best-selling tragedy/romance writer is hired to write the ending. Enemies to lovers.
Tessa Bailey’s It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker are stories of fishermen who work in very dangerous work conditions. In book one, a rich influencer is sent to the fishing town because her stepfather thinks she doesn’t understand the value of hard work. Her sister goes with her. Book two is about her sister. I really adored the setting of these two books.
Ana Huang’s Twisted Love and Twisted Games are both spicier romances (books 1 and 2 out of 4). I really enjoyed reading them, but the possessiveness of the men was a little bit off-putting for me.
The Book Tour by Emily Ohanjanians is an enemies to lovers romance. I liked that the main character is Armenian. Too many romances are about all-white characters! It’s about an author who is on tour with her grumpy book publicist.
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