Diversity on the Shelf 2015: October Review Link-Up and Giveaway

Welcome to the October review linky of Diversity on the Shelf 2015 Reading Challenge.  

Every month I will post a linky for you to add your reviews.  Please have a direct link to the book you are reviewing to the linky.  No links to blog home pages please.  If you don't have a blog, please link to your Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook, LibraryThing or other account where you are reviewing the books for this challenge.

Books that qualify for this challenge are by people of color or with a main character of color.  All shades and races of color are welcomed and encouraged here.  If you still need more clarification on what a person of color is Click Here.

If you haven't signed up for the challenge yet, don't fret you still have time.  Just sign up here! 

If you need a few suggestions on what to read for this challenge check out the list of links to blogs, book list and more. (Links here)

  September Stats
(as of 9/26)
  15 books read and reviewed

First book read, reviewed and linked up from Shan @Curled Up with A Good Book and Tea

 ~ October Review Linky ~

An InLinkz Link-up

Now for the giveaway part.

I hope this makes sense.
If you read, review and link up a D.O.T.S. approved book (book by a POC author or with a POC main character) you will get one (1) point.
If the book has a scary theme with a monster (ie. vampire, witches, werewolves, ghost, shapeshifter and all the things that go bump in the night) you get another one (1) point.
POC book = 1point
Scary POC book = 1 point
Total = 2 points

Read, Review and Link

At the end of the month come back here and leave your total number below along with your sign up number and your email address.
Winner will be the person with the highest number.
If there is a tie then Random.org will pick the winner.

So What is the Prize?
Any book you want up to $15.00USD
YOU PICK IT!

 Rules
1.  Must be a D.O.T.S. participant
2.  Must include your number of books linked up to this page.
3.  No links to homepages.
4.  Must leave your sign up number and email address below as well.
5.  Giveaway will close on November 6th, 2015 at 1:00am
6.  Winner announced on November 8th.

Good Luck!

What I Am Listening To...

X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon

Diverse Book Tours Presents Best Kept Secret and Giveaway

I haven't hosted a book tour in a few years but the other day it hit me.  I should help promote books that fit within the reading challenge I am hosting.  Duhh!  It was more or less an Oprah Ahhha Moment.  So today is the kick off of promoting books by POC authors or with POC main characters.  Ladies and gentleman let me present to you a Diversity on the Shelf approved book...

Best Kept Secrets by Shelly Ellis

ISBN: 1617733997

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.

Pages: 352

Publication Date: August 25, 2015

Genre(s): Women's fiction, African American literature

Diversity on the Shelf 2015: August Review Link-Up

Welcome to the August review linky of Diversity on the Shelf 2015 Reading Challenge.  

Every month I will post a linky for you to add your reviews.  Please have a direct link to the book you are reviewing to the linky.  No links to blog home pages please.  If you don't have a blog, please link to your Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook, LibraryThing or other account where you are reviewing the books for this challenge.

Books that qualify for this challenge are by people of color or with a main character of color.  All shades and races of color are welcomed and encouraged here.  If you still need more clarification on what a person of color is Click Here.

If you haven't signed up for the challenge yet, don't fret you still have time.  Just sign up here! 

If you need a few suggestions on what to read for this challenge check out the list of links to blogs, book list and more. (Links here)

 

 July Stats
(as of 7/31)
22 books read and reviewed
First Book Reviewed by Shan @Curled Up with a Good Book and a Cup of Tea

POC Books on My Shelf

Sorry this is so incredibly late.  I have to and I am trying get back to my POC schedule.

As you know, part of my 2015 resolutions is to post more about POC authors and characters. This has been a fun and great idea for me and my blog because I get a chance to show off a few authors and books that don't get that much time in the spotlight.

As you can see I have several books by or about People of Color.  The photo is of my TBR pile I need to get to it.  There is a complete mix of books on my bookshelf and I seem to jump to the next book based on what hits me at the moment solely.  No particular order.  

Feel free to join me and post a something on your blog about as well.

What is POC?

Well, basically it stands for Person of Color. All Colors! All non-white races are counted as POC.

Previous POC posts

POC and Poetry
POC Books I Want to Read This Year
POC Children Books
Favorite Female POC Authors
Favorite POC Books from 2014

Click on the covers to go to the books Amazon page.

~ POC Books On My Bookshelf ~

POC and Poetry

This year as part of my 2015 resolutions I am posting more post about POC authors and characters.  This has been a fun and great idea for me and my blog because I get a chance to show off a few authors and books that don't get that much time in the spotlight.  

Since April is National Poetry Month I thought I would highlight a few books of poetry by POC authors.  Feel free to join me and post a something on your blog about as well. 

What is POC?

Well, basically it stands for Person of Color.  All Colors! All non-white races are counted as POC.
Previous POC posts
POC Books I Want to Read This Year
POC Children Books
Favorite Female POC Authors
Favorite POC Books from 2014

Click on the covers to go to the books Amazon page.

~ Poetry Books By POC Authors ~

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
National Book Award Finalist
#1 Best Seller in Amazon's African American Poetry

Accounts of racially charged interactions, insidious and flagrant, transpiring in private and in the public eye, distill the immediate emotional intensity of individual experience with tremendous precision while allowing ambiguity, ambivalence, contradiction, and exhaustion to remain in all their fraught complexity. . . . Once again Rankine inspires sympathy and outrage, but most of all a will to take a deep look at ourselves and our society. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

My Favorite Male POC Authors

Today I thought I would show some love to the male P.O.C. authors who have never ever let me down.  These are the six five "go to" authors I will always get a good read from no matter what.  Some of them I haven't read in a long time and a couple are newer discoveries.  Disclaimer time!  There are more than five P.O.C. authors in my reading collection but I wanted to feature the top ones who have stood the test of time in my reading life.  Also they are in no particular order.

By the way, in case you missed it I am doing a bi-weekly post on this blog to feature books and authors that are P.O.C. (people of color) to give them all a bit more time in the spotlight and I would love, love for you to join me. (The covers are linked to the Amazon.com page and bios are from Goodreads.com)

Richard Wright

Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerned racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century.

Books by Richard Wright

Review: Tales of the Talented Tenth

Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth, Volume 1 Author: Joel Christian Gill Age Range: 12 - 18 years Genre: Non Fiction Graphic Novel Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing Release Date: October 28, 2014 Paperback: 158 pages Source: Free from the public library

Favorite Female POC Authors

Today I thought I would show some love to the P.O.C. authors who have never ever let me down.  These are the six "go to" authors I will always get a good read from no matter what.  Some of them I haven't read in a long time and a couple are newer discoveries.  Disclaimer time!  There are more than seven P.O.C. authors in my reading collection but I wanted to feature the top ones who have stood the test of time in my reading life.  They have amazed me more than once and they have enhanced my love of reading from early on.  Also they are in no particular order. 

By the way, in case you missed it I am doing a bi-weekly post on this blog to feature books and authors that are P.O.C. (people of color) to give them all a bit more time in the spotlight and I would love, love for you to join me. (The covers are linked to the Amazon page)

 Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is a novelist and a creative writing teacher who has worked as a journalist. She won the American Book Award in 2002 for her novel The Living Blood. (from Goodreads)

What I Am Reading...

1-900-ANYTIME

Favorite POC Books from 2014

I have been thinking of a way to promote diversity on my blog more. Since it is one of my 2015 New Years Resolutions. So I thought I would first start with taking a topic each month and promoting a book or books that are writing by POC authors or about a POC character.

The best way to start off the month would be to talk about my favorite POC books that I read last year. This post should have went up last month but better late than never.

Here are my favorite POC books from 2014.

Oh! Wait! Please feel free to do this post on your blogs as well and leave a link in the comment section below so I can come by and visit. I would love to see what POC books you loved.

This is not in an particular order and you can hoover over the books to get more information about them. 

Favorite POC Books from 2014

What I Am Reading...

March: Book 1