A celebration of Contemporary Black British Authors for Black History Month.(Contains some affiliate links)

I was absolutely a child who always gravitated to nonfiction over fiction every single time. I just can't concentrate on something that isn't real when there are so many real things that I don't know! ANYWAY, here are some of my favorites from the last few years, including some ones that I used in the classroom.

Something that fell to the wayside once I reached adulthood was reading. Who has the time? No longer was I the passenger in my vessel, but the driver! I can’t read and drive at the same time! Eventually — I learned how to make it work for me. If you’d ask me about audiobooks before, I’d declare that that isn’t considered reading. You absorb the page, letting it be your only focus. A Kindle? No way. I love the sensory experience that comes with reading. While I still feel that way, I realized that what I love about reading is hearing a story and falling into a creation from another person. Audiobooks allow a person who is busy “adulting” to still hear a story. A Kindle is so small it can fit into a coat pocket and instead of taking your phone out to disconnect from present reality to connect to a distant one, you can pull out your Kindle and read the words on the page. The Kindle App even lets you use the dang phone in lieu of scrolling. I’ve found reading again through devices I refused, and I’m reading more than I ever have. I read/listened to 40 books this year! It brings me so much peace and happiness to read — even if that comes in the form of listening. So much better than the horrible 24/7 news cycle. Lose yourself in the story, forget the rest.