It's Monday! What are you reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly blog hop hosted by Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers 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. 

I post about my reading here, at the YA blog Rich in Color and as crystalreading at Storygraph. 

The Past Week: I just finished two books for the Trans Rights Readathon. Lunar Boy by Cin & Jes Wibowo is a lovely middle grade sci-fi graphic novel and Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa is a young adult Pride and Prejudice retelling. They were both great and I'm glad that books like this exist.

I read a picture book called Cosmic Wonder: Halley's Comet and Humankind by Ashley Benham-Yazdani. It shows the comet and what was happening in different locations during the various times that it has come near the earth. There is a lot of history in the book and the night sky is beautiful. I'm very excited because the author/illustrator may be visiting at least one of my schools this spring. 

I read two nonfiction adult books. One was Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec. It's a really good look into the past and how to be in right relationship with the land, our world, and each other. 

The other nonfiction books was Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal which I listened to. It was a nice self help book that had a lot of good advice, but I think I missed out on the drawings. He did describe them, but I kind of want to see a physical copy of the book sometime. 

I read an adult Pride and Prejudice retelling called  A Second Look by Hannah Matus. The main characters are Muslim and have Libyan roots. It's set in the current day and was pretty satisfying. I read it for the Ramadan Readathon. I was happy to give another Austen retelling a try. 

Have a great week!