The Book of Harlan


Book Reviews

  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

May 3, 2016

The Birds of Opulence


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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 […]

April 13, 2016

#ReadSoulLit Photo Challenge Day 20 – A Red Book


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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 […]

February 20, 2016

#ReadSoulLit Photo Challenge – Day 13 Jilted Love


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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 […]

February 13, 2016

Daughter


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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 […]

August 29, 2015