I'm Thinking of Reading a Book 💁🏻‍♀️

By starting my Monthly Wrap Up series, my suspicion that I'm a slow reader was confirmed since the number of books I read monthly is much smaller compared to the tons of books that BookTubers finish during the same time period. So, I decided to challenge myself by trying to see how many books I can read in just a week. In order to make things more interesting, I gave a theme to this challenge; all books had to be written by authors who have won the Nobel prize in Literature. Are you intrigued? Do you want to see how I did? If yes, just keep reading!

On 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, was arrested for buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. About ten minutes after the employee reported the illegal transaction, two police officers found George Floyd with two friends in a car close to the grocery store. After having been targeted with a gun and having been handcuffed, George Floyd resisted entering the police car. This is when Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer, arrived at the scene and in his attempt to put him inside the car, he caused Floyd to fall on the ground. Then, Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd's neck and kept it there for about nine minutes although bystanders were filming him and Floyd himself was stating that he couldn't breath. At some point, Floyd lost consciousness and after he was transported to a hospital, he was announced dead. All four police officers present during this incident were fired but Derek Chauvin is charged with second-degree mu...

As I shared at my May 2020 Favourites post, I was stressed in May because I submitted a scholarship application. This stress hindered my motivation to read. However, I did some reading, and I'm here to share the books I read with you.