My copy: The Book of Harlan – hardcover, 346 pages Rating: ***** I’m an affiliate for The Book Depository. It would be much appreciated to click the link below if you’re interested in picking up any of my recommendations. It will help fund my incessant book buying. http://www.bookdepository.com/?a_aid=browngirlreading
If you don’t know how much mad love I have for Crystal Wilkinson’s writing, you’re going to hear all about it in this review of The Birds of Opulence, newly released in March 2016. The story explores life in small town Opulence, focalizing on the Goode-Brown family. The four generations of women, led by the […]
Day 29 – A Few Favorite Books from Last Year Today’s the last day of Black History Month but certainly not the last day of #ReadSoulLit. I encourage all of you to keep posting and talking about books by black authors, while using #ReadSoulLit! Thanks to you all for supporting and participating… I’m an affiliate […]
Day 28 – Favorite Cover I had to put up this beautiful cover of the Middle Grade novel about the Gaither sisters from the series of that name. I first read One Crazy Summer four years ago and loved. It’s the first novel in this trilogy and is followed by P.S. Be Eleven and […]
Day 26 – Recommended to you I had to pick The Street by Ann Petry. It was recommended to me by Girl Danielle from OneSmallPaw on You Tube, who’s co-hosting this photo challenge with me. “THE STREET tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to […]
Day 20 – A Red Book: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present “From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical […]
Day 18 – An Underrated Book One of my prize discoveries in literature last year was Daughter by Asha Bandele. The writing and the message were both beautiful. I hadn’t heard of this author and hadn’t heard anyone speak of her nor of her novels. Daughter was published in 2003, but being read today is […]
Day 13 – Jilted Love – I had to go with Loving Donovan! That’s all I’m going to say since I’ll be getting into spoiler territory. “The first section of this unconventional love story belongs to Campbell. Despite being born to a broken-hearted mother and a faithless father, Campbell still believes in the power of […]
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Have you ever read a book that evoked so much emotion that you felt it was familiar and it made you shed a tear? That hasn’t happened to me in ages. Daughter begins with the story of Miriam and her daughter Aya. They are keeping things together and getting on the best they can with […]
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