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Books I’ve Been Reading: May

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Before getting into the books I read last month, I want to jump ahead and share two books that I’ve just added to my iBooks app and am currently reading. 

I feel they’re important reading in the current moment (and every moment, really), with the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd protests happening in the United States and around the world right now. 

The two books I’ve chosen to purchase and start reading immediately to help educate myself further on the topic of racism are Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge, and How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi (Neither of these are affiliate links). 

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Books I’ve Been Reading: April

Reading, Book Club

I’ve always been a massive bookworm. 

As a child my parents used to joke about how I always had my nose in the pages of the newest hardback I could get my hands on. 

As a teenager learning to drive I found out how much I didn’t even know the streets of my hometown well enough to navigate without help, as I’d usually spent my time as a passenger reading. 

As an adult I still spent hours immersing myself in different worlds from fiction novels, or filling my brain with new information from non-fiction books on topics I found interesting. 

Since becoming a mother six months ago, however, I found I hadn’t really been taking part in one of my favourite activities, reading, at all. 

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