Kindred takes place in 1976 and in 1815. Dana a young African-American woman periodically experiences dizziness and black outs which enable her to go back in time to 1815. The experience of going back to the slave days is shocking and terrible for her in the beginning. She is extremely distressed since she has no […]
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 […]
Today’s recommendation is a book by Philip Roth, the prolific 20th century American author who died last year in the month of May. Now I’m sure some of you might be ready to sign off my post, since you’ve seen I’m plugging a book by Roth. I beg of you to stay with me and […]
Epic novels are my jam. This epic novel, I’m recommending today, I had the pleasure of reading for a second time this year. That’s The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. This story is told from multiple points of view – Orleanna, Nathan Price’s wife , and their four daughters. We never hear the voice of […]
Firstly, Some Sing, Some Cry is one of the best historical fiction/family sagas I’ve read in a long time. It was written by 2 sisters Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza. It’s the perfect combination of family, history, music, struggle, and love. There are quite a few memorable characters in this book but the couple that […]
Mawu was the character that broke the sanity of the beginning if this novel. Slave women that accompany their masters on a retreat to Tawawa House. The seediness of this novel made me so mad, but the arrival of Mawu made the other slave women think of freedom for the first time. She was strong […]
I read this one a few years ago when it came out. Very interesting story that is written with a lot of creativity. This was my first book by James McBride and it certainly won’t be my last. I think I might even think about rereading this one. “Henry Shackleford is a slave boy […]
Barkskins is Annie Proulx’s fifth novel, which was released in January 2016. Epic, powerful, and engaging from page one, Barkskins follows two Frenchmen René and Duquet who are indentured to a seigneur Trépagny in New France. There they are to become barkskins, wood cutters. From these two men the reader follows their lineage and the […]
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