Pages & Prose Book Tag
- Jan 3, 2021
- 4 min read
This is a tag that Lorryn, one of our admins and cofounder at Pages And Prose Bookclub created if you don’t know what our book club is, in her words :
If you happen to not know what Pages and Prose is, it is the love child of Bee at Bee But Bookish and myself. It is an 21+ bookclub that reads diverse YA, NA & Adult books of all genres. We can be found on IG, Twitter, and discord. Lorryn’s blog, https://readingparental.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/pages-and-prose-book-tag/
So, of course, I couldn’t wait to do this! All graphics and questions are hers and you can find her original post here on her blog.
There are too many, if you know me, you know that that I love me some found family. The most recent one that comes to mind right away is the found family in The Weight of The Stars by K. Ancrum. Great novel, great characters, and space!! I love a found family trope and if space is involved even more!
A book by a diverse author
How much time do you have?!?! I have been actively making sure that I read more and more diverse authors and when this question comes up I have an quick list that pops up right away! But my favorite this year would have to be P. Djèlí Clark’s Fatma el-Sha’arawi’s novellas. I can’t wait for the novel, A Master of Djinn, next year to revisit this wonderful world he created. (I know I cheated but these two are novella’s and together they make one whole book, right?!?!)
A book with an unreliable narrator
I have to agree with Lorryn’s choice for this one. It’s still one of those books that stick with me to this day. The narrator is someone you have to question and get lost following and you have to begin to wonder if this is all in their head or something else at all. The truth is often a lot harsher and harder to take than fiction and this book proves that.
A book that has different povs
I read so many this year that had many different POV’s but the one that still follows me is Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians. You follow all four of the friends mentioned in the synopsis and even a few extra ones that I won’t name as it ruins some of the surprise. I usually don’t like books with multiple POV’s but this one had me changing my mind about that.
A book featuring a long distance relationship/friendship
This Is How You Lose the Time War, I am not going to sit here and pretend that I understood 100% of this book, I am not a liar. However, I will say that this story was beautiful, it follows two rivals on opposite sides of a time war as they write back and forth across space and time and even eventually fall in love over said letters. If that isn’t long distance, I don’t know what is.
A book with supportive friends/family
I am sorry, but you if you don’t have someone who is willing to not only turn a blind eye when you murder someone but also help cover it up and clean up the crime scenes, I don’t know what a supportive family is then. With those jokes aside, Korede is always there for her sister regardless of who it is that her sister has set her eyes on, this book is a great complex story about family and the lengths we go for them.
A book with a villain origin story
This is the only one I read this year that had to do with a villains origin story, so I can’t really say much. I didn’t really enjoy this, unfortunately. It had a lot of backstory to the original trilogy which I loved but besides that, I didn’t really enjoy it much at all.
A book that’s full of diverse characters
The Gilded Wolves series has such a diverse cast of characters and even the found family trope! I love them all, sometimes not Severin, and would do anything to protect them! Each of them are complex and each face their own struggles while still coming together and being there for one another.
A book that makes you feel safe / a comfort read
This book came to me in the form of a bookish friend years ago when tragedy struck our family. My uncle had passed away after battling lymphoma and because of certain things I had to be the rock for the adults and help with many things and didn’t get to fully process the loss myself. When they sent me this as our highlight book of the month I couldn’t help but cry and let out all the had been hiding underneath the surface out. I also make it no secret that I battle with anxiety and depression on a daily and this book just helped me realize that it was okay to ask for help when needed. I read it every year now to help ground myself and remind myself that “I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
A book that was out of your comfort zone
Romance is not a genre that I dive into but thanks to Pages and Prose I have began to venture out of my comfort zone to find that I actually enjoy it. You Had Me At Hola proved to me that there is more to romance novels than just romance, many authors use it to convey more topics than just love and I enjoyed that very much.
Have you read any of these?
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