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
Happy New Year! Wishing you good health, wealth, and reading in 2022! I wish people a happy new year up to the end of the month of January. Although, I hear some people are superstitious about when to quit wishing people happy new year. Surprisingly, we are already 22 days into the New Year and […]
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 […]
Day 6: Plant and a BookI will always mention Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May when some ask for recommendations of Black American authors. This book is so damn underrated! I hope one day Eric Charles May decides to release another book. I’d be the first one to purchase it.Bedrock faith has everything […]
Better late than never! I’m finally back at the beginning of this new year with the Read Soul Lit Photo Challenge. I’ve linked the photo challenge here so that you can follow along. I promise to be back with at least one post a week but this month I’ll be here everyday with my […]
This was a great discussion to end Black History Month. We were also blessed to have Leonard Pitts, Jr for the second half of the discussion. He’s really brilliant! This live discussion contains spoilers so if you haven’t finished reading you might want to wait until you do. Enjoy! If you’d like to pick up […]
Quote: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…. The man who never reads only lives one.” […]
Today’s recommendation I discovered in the spring of 2015. Water Street was one of the first few short story collections I had read in a long time that I thoroughly enjoyed. Fourteen connected short stories set in Stanford, Kentucky in the black community. I was amazed to see how well Wilkinson linked each character and […]
The first James Baldwin novel I read was Giovanni’s Room and I really enjoyed it. I marveled over his ability to write a novel with so many layered themes. I also was wondering why it had taken me so long to finally read one of his novels. I notice that this is often the first […]
Starting our second week already and I’ll be talking about another one of my favorite books that I rave about all the time and that’s Jam on the Vine. Jam on the Vine is LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s 2015 debut novel. This is another novel that literally flew right under the radar at its release. People […]
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