some catch up posts before I bring out today's post:

Happy New Year!

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/hello-2026/

Some reading I did before I got back on the wagon (here's hoping I stay on it)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/cheeky-little-catch-up-128-131-1000/

Night 132 of the #1000NightsChallenge

Discusses:

Sirens by Samantha Szumloz (US)
It Is Evergreen to Say the Word Evergreen by Leigh Chadwick (US)
A Portrait of Building A Body by Nathan Shuherk (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-132-1000/

Books Read | Week ending 3/1/26

Discusses:

FROG AND TOAD ARE FRIENDS by Arnold Lobel (US)
OKCHUNDANG CANDY by Jung-soon Go (South Korea)
THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED by John Green (US)
HANGMAN by Maya Binyam (Ethiopia/ US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/books-read-week-ending-3-1-26/

It's my birthday!!!

Won't you celebrate with me (accepting good wishes and gifts): https://qinglong.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/the-2026-birthday-wish-list/

[It’s been a long time! I’ve been reading; here’s my latest]

Night 147 of the #1000NightsChallenge

Discusses:

The Pay-packet by Ifeoma Okoye (Nigeria)
The Sparrows’ Question by Nasreen Anjum Bhatti (Pakistan)
A lesson in coexistence by Toby Green (UK)
CUE THE SUN!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (US)
A LAST SUPPER OF QUEER APOSTLES: Selected Essays by Pedro Lemebel (Chile)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-147-1000/

Night 148 of the #1000NightsChallenge

Discusses:

Saltless Ash by Zaynab Alkali (Nigeria)
Takeoff by Angie Estes (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-148-1000/

Night 149 of the #1000NightsChallenge

Discusses:

Disillusion by Orlanda Amarílis (Cape Verde)
Tell Your Story by Lebogang Mashile (South Africa)
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are by Walt Hunter (US)
CUE THE SUN!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-149-1000/

Night 150 of the #1000NightsChallenge

Discusses:

New Life at Tandia by Aminata Maïga Ka (Senegal)
Bogland by Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
notes on Takeoff by Angie Estes by Stephanie Burt (US)
MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-150-1000/

#1000NightsChallenge Night 151

Discusses:

The Story of Jesus--According to Mokuba, the Beloved Tribesman by Violet Dias Lannoy (Goa/ India)
The Curator by Miller Williams (US)
MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-151-1000/

Books Read | Week ending 7/3/26

Discusses:

📗+🎧🇺🇸 THE BLUEPRINT by Rae Giana Rashad (US)
📗+🎧🇺🇸 ONE OF OUR KIND by Nicola Yoon (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/books-read-week-ending-7-3-26/

Books Read | Week ending 14/3/26

Discusses:

📗(🎧)🎭🇺🇸 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams (US)
📗+🎧🇧🇷 SOLITARIA by Eliana Alves Cruz (Brazil)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/books-read-week-ending-14-3-26/

Books Read | Week ending 21/3/26

Discusses:

📘+🎧🎨🇰🇷 TWO WOMEN LIVING TOGETHER by Kim Hana & Hwang Sunwoo (South Korea)

📗(🎧)🇰🇷 THE WHITE BOOK by Han Kang (South Korea)

📗🌍 THE HEINEMANN BOOK OF AFRICAN WOMEN'S WRITING; edited by Charlotte H. Bruner (Various Countries)

📗(🎧)🇺🇸 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by Ling Ling Huang (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/books-read-week-ending-21-3-26/

Books Read | Week ending 28/3/26

Discusses:

📘+🎧🇨🇦 BOOK OF LIVES: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
📗(🎧)🎨 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 THE FAGGOTS & THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS by Larry Mitchell (US)
📗(🎧) 🇳🇬🇬🇧 CURSED DAUGHTERS by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Nigeria/ UK)
📘+🎧🇺🇸 PLUNDER: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou (US)
📗🇺🇸 THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman (US)
📗🎨🇺🇸 JUNIE B. JONES AND THE STUPID SMELLY BUS by Barbara Park (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/books-read-week-ending-28-3-26/

#1000NightsChallenge Night 206

Discusses:

Cancer, Leo Rising by Sophie Robinson (UK)
KIN by Tayari Jones (US)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-206-1000/

#1000NightsChallenge Night 207

Discusses:

Liddy, First to Fly by Kim Fu (Canada)
The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep by Trace Peterson (US)
Too Hot to Work by Evgenia (Russia/ US)
WE, THE KINDLING by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek (Uganda/ Canada)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-207-1000/

VOTE!!!

https://bit.ly/Kalasha2026

#1000NightsChallenge Night 208

Discusses:

poets of distant planets by Ifeanyi Ogbo (Nigeria)
SON OF SIN by Omar Sakr (Australia)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/ray-bradbury-reading-challenge-208-1000/

Books Read | Week ending 4/4/26

Discusses:

📗+🎧🇺🇬🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE by Iryn Tushabe (Uganda/ Canada)�
📗+🎧🇲🇦🇺🇸 THE DREAM HOTEL by Laila Lalami (Morocco/ US)
📘🇺🇬 SLOW POISON: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State by Mahmood Mamdani (Uganda)

https://100onbooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/books-read-week-ending-4-4-26/