Over at Becky’s Book Reviews, Becky is hosting the Celebrate the Author Challenge. The basic idea is that each month of 2008, you read a book by an author born in that month. Go to the post I linked earlier for more details.
Here’s my tentative author list:
January - Lloyd Alexander (hopefully ALL of the Vesper Holly series)
February - Meg Cabot
March - Libba Bray
April - Micol Ostow
May - Scott Westerfeld
June - Annette Curtis Klause
July - Christopher Golden (born the day after me but a few years earlier)
August - Piers Anthony
September - Melissa de la Cruz
October - Gabrielle Zevin
November - Holly Black
December - Stephanie Meyer
I acknowledge that I live and work on unceded Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, and Shakori land. I give respect and reverence to those who came before me. I thank Holisticism for the text of this land acknowledgement.
We must acknowledge that much of what we know of this country today, including its culture, economic growth, and development throughout history and across time, has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting impact that can still be felt and witnessed today. I thank Dr. Terah ‘TJ’ Stewart for the text of this labor acknowledgement.