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There are many books we hope to have read before the end of 2021 but we didn’t do as well as we had hoped. Here are just a few books MBJ meant to read in 2020 but never got the chance to.

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Robin DiAngelo

I meant to read Robin DiAngelo in the summer of 2020 right after reading So You Want To Talk About Race, but I didn’t get very far before midterms, assignments and finals.

So far, DiAngelo has managed to call out her fellow White People in an educational address.

Sash

The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine

by Jennifer Gunter

My niece received Jennifer Gunter’s The Vagina Bible for her birthday. When I read the synopsis I knew that it would be my kind of book. All things vagina, both myth and fact, answering all the burning seemingly mundane was enthralled with the vagina questions.

This year, I really hope I get to read and review this for you all.

Sash

The Times I Knew I Was Gay

by Eleanor Crewes

I received The Times I Knew I Was Gay as an advanced reader’s copy (arc). Unfortunately, the arc I was given was not legible. It would flop from pages 15 to 203. It made it extremely difficult to follow.

I really hope I get to finish this book in its entirety. I’m going to purchase a better copy than the arc I was given on Bookshop.

Sash

One to Watch

by Kate Stayman-London

I started and never got the chance to finish One to Watch. I thought this would be a good read. A plus-size influencer gets to star in her own version of the bachelor. Very interesting concept, so far, very poorly executed.

I really want to finish this book, but it just doesn’t feel right to me. Bea’s emotional maturity is that of a teenager, the dramatics are way too over the top for me. The influencer fashionista persona is merely a facade Bea puts on. She is far from being the body positive confident womxn the synopsis of the book would have us believe.

Now, I feel that I must finish this book to better inform other readers who are looking for solstice in such a book.

Sash

Eleanor & Park

by Rainbow Rowell

I definitely had the intention of reading this book (for the second time). I couldn’t manage it, it made me uncomfortable. The subtle hints about Park just didn’t sit right with me. It doesn’t help that I am not a huge fan of YA novels.

I meant to read Eleanor & Park but I’m not sure I ever will.

Sash

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

When I found out that this book was being turned into a TV series through Amazon Prime, I knew that I had to read it. It went right on my TBR. I actually started to listen to it in audiobook form, but due to my peculiarities when it comes to audiobooks, I ended up abandoning it. I had every intention of picking up a copy from my library, but alas, I didn’t get to it with all my other readings.

I can’t wait to have another crack at it.

Carmen

Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)

by Talia Hibbert

I bought this book at the beginning of the year before the mess that is COVID was upon us. I fully intended to read it this summer, but I never got around to it with school. Sash read it and said it was a surprisingly interesting read. So I will definitely have to read it…eventually.

Carmen

Little Fish

by Casey Plett

This book was one that I was supposed to read for my Contemporary Canadian Writers class. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to read it, and it fell by the wayside. I’m always disappointed in myself when I don’t read and assigned reading, and I’m happy to say that of twelve readings for this class, I only missed three. Little Fish is one of them.

Carmen

Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography (Louis Riel)

by Chester Brown

Louis Riel: a Comic-Strip Biography is something that I have been trying to read for a while. I’m about halfway through it, and it is an interesting approach to biography. However, I’m still not done. It’s definitely a book that I meant to read and finish last year, but other books took precedence.

Carmen

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

by Mary L. Trump

This book was brought to my attention when I saw the author on Stephen Colbert during the summer. Being a relative of Donald Trump and a trained psychologist gave Mary L. Trump and a unique perspective on the president and the state of the Whitehouse. With all the things that went on in the Trump Whitehouse and the administration and events that are still ongoing, this book is incredibly compelling. I only wish that I got to read it sooner. But I will read it soon, hopefully.

Carmen

There you have it, books MBJ meant to read in 2020. What books did you mean to read in 2020 or previous years but never got around to reading?