The Poet X by Elizabeth Acemedo. What a beautiful, painful, stunning book. Yet a book where pain doesn’t always win. I was hesitant to read it at first because of it being written in blank verse. I needn’t have been. I’m embarrassed, actually, that I knew of it for so long and yet held back, and it took a readathon to get me to go ahead and give it a chance. But isn’t that why we participate in readathons? Not just to...

Once upon a time… … three terrific book-vloggers decided to sponsor a  5-book readathon of black books featuring black people or written by black authors. It was initially was intended for part of February but quickly expanded to last the entire month. So if you see specific dates in February, you can ignore them and know that yes, it really does last for the entirety of Black History Month. Here’s a five-minute video...