11. The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas, 2017) ~ Book Discussion
At the beginning of the pandemic, I decided to give myself a break from reading. As a creative writing graduate, reading was something unavoidable, meaning that after finishing all of my final assignments, I needed a rest from anything reading intensive. That was until the world was forced to open their eyes wide and raise their voices against the vile, blatant acts of racism present in society, sparked by the death of George Floyd. Numerous cases of police brutality surfaced on all social media platforms, highlighting the presence of systemic, and brutal, acts of racism all over the globe, uniting people to protest for Black Lives Matter. I found myself reading, educating myself through numerous resources which I had found online and through my own university library, signing and sharing each and every petition which I could find under Twitter threads. The current world situation and my resurgence of my need to read reminded me of a book that I ha...