Hello Hello Hello!
It is spooky season time and I’m here with a couple of readathon announcements. Woot! Woot! Both readathons were created by friends a fellow Bootubers, so please make sure you check out their announcement videos which will be linked at the end of this post.
Let’s start off with the BlackSFF-Athon. This readathon was created by Thistle & Verse
“to promote science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, and supernatural horror by Black authors”.
You might remember her from my post, Discussion: Overlooked & Underhyped Sci-Fi/Fantasy by Black Authors where she recommended 5 Sci-Fi/Fantasy books. BlackSFF-Athon is a two-week readathon that starts on October 3. Thistle & Verse has created reading prompts, Instagram challenges, reading sprints, and live shows.
The next readathon is Black-Oween. This year, I am not only participating in it, but am also one of several co-hosts. Black-Oween-Athon was created by Bre over at the Loc’D Booktician. It takes place during the entire month of October and it’s to celebrate Black authors who write Horror, Mystery, Thriller. The readathon has 6 prompts, a Bingo Board, author interviews, reading sprints, live shows, and more.
I’m not going to get into the prompts and all the activities that these readathons have going on because we’d be here all day. So, again I encourage you to check out both of their announcement videos for all the deets. I am really excited about these readathons and this year’s iterations of them. And, I hope you join in.
My TBR
So, yeah, I kinda sort of created a TBR. I say “kinda sort of” because at the moment there are 15 books on my TBR between the Black SFF and Black-Oween-Athon readathons. And, if I’m being honest there is no way I’m going to read all of them. But it pays to have options. Right?
| Black-Oween | BlackSFF | Format | |
| Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston | X | X | HB |
| Black Noir ed. By Otto Penzler | X | HB | |
| The Black Stars Collection | X | eBook | |
| Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins | X | eBook | |
| The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher | X | PB | |
| Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia | X | eARC | |
| The Good House by Tananarive Due | X | X | PB |
| Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead | X | eARC | |
| Lakewood by Megan Giddings | X | X | eBook |
| Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson | X | HB | |
| Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko | X | HB | |
| Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson | X? | X | PB |
| Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa | X | eARC | |
| Conjure Women by Afia Atakora | X | eBook | |
| Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson | X | X | HB |
The Broken Spine 