Day 10: True Life I began reading The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison last year. It’s been an amazing endeavour reading and learning about him. I have a love of letters and reading epistolary formatted books. Epistolary novels aren’t as prevalent these days as they were in the past. This being said a girl can […]
Day 9: Last #RSL Pic on Phone This is the last pic on my phone, which is the stack of books I used for the Book Spine Poetry video. I’ve had the pleasure of reading all of these books except In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper, An Untamed Stated by Roxane Gay, and […]
Day 8: Book Spine Poetry Enjoy! I invite you to try and make a poem from the titles on your book spines. It’s amazing what you can come up with. Share yours below in the comments.
Day 7: Black Shelfie Today’s picture is my bottom shelf on my color coordinated bookshelf. It’s my smallest and it’s the first time I decided to arrange my books by color. It’s taken me a while to get used to, but I feel arranging my books by last name is the best. I can find […]
Day 6: #ReadSoul Lit Vibes Nothing more #ReadSoulLit than a bunch of great books by black authors and Maxwell playing somewhere in the background. Click below to see my Instagram reel for this prompt. www.instagram.com/reel/CZo9nQpgh-s
Day 5: Anticipated New Release My most anticipated release is A Woman of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa. My goodness check out that fabulous cover designed by Haitian born artist, based in New York, Fabiola Jean-Louis. It’s such a powerful, intense cover that is already speaking to the reader before we even get started with the […]
Day 4: Unexpected Fave Choosing an unexpected fave was very difficult. I was trying to find a book I hadn’t already written about but it seems faves are faves for a reason. We can’t stop talking about them. This was the second book I read by J. California Cooper. The first book I read was […]
Day 3: Home Sweet Home What is Home Sweet Home for an avid reader? Well I guess that could almost be anything. For me it’s lying on the sofa with a hot cup of tea or sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of tea. Actually anywhere I can pull out a book […]
Day 2: Top #RSL Book of 2021 It was very difficult to choose just one top Read Soul Lit book from 2021. I read so many excellent books last year. So I decided to pick 3 – favorite nonfiction, favorite fiction, and favorite poetry collection. On to the books…. Yellow Wife – Sadeqa Johnson Yellow […]
Day 10: Book and Bookmark Children of the Night The Best Short Stories By Black Writers 1967 to the Present is an edition I was lucky enough to purchase in a used book sale in Paris for a whopping 1€! The book sale was selling paperbacks for 0.50€ and hardcovers 1-2€. I grabbed this one […]
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