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 17 – A 2010s Classic I couldn’t resist choosing Lighthead by Terrance Hayes. This was the first collection I read. Y him which wasn’t suggested to me by Danielle from Dani! Dany! Danie! On Instagram. I was not disappointed. His poetry is meaningful, intentional, and creative. I know poetry can often times turn […]
I created this tag so that people could get more recommendations of books by black authors. I’m tagging all of you bloggers out there to do it and to add to the list of growing recommendations of African-American authors and their works this Black History Month. Enjoy! If you’d like to pick up a copy […]
I can hardly believe that 2019 has arrived so quickly. 2018 was a good reading year as a whole for me because I did complete my Goodreads goal to read 60 books. I also read 461 more pages than last year. However, there were quite a few things that did not go as planned that I […]
When I heard about the release of this American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, I knew I had to read it. I don’t often read poetry but when I do it’s because I’m sure the collection is going to move me. And this one did that and more. This collection was savvy, intelligent, […]
I haven’t read many debut novels by African-American authors in the past few years, but The Hate U Give was published in 2017 and surprisingly enough had me gripped. As you know, I don’t usually read YA novels but I loved everything about what I was hearing from this book on audio. The Hate U […]
The late great writer and poet, Henry Dumas, has been on my TBR for ages. However I didn’t have any of his books until last year when I purchased this short story collection from Coffee House Press. Note that his work isn’t easy to find these days. His writing has been deemed brilliant and influential. […]
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 […]
This is one of the few vintage Signet editions left from my family’s book collection. It reminds me of my Uncle Lawrence. RIP. He talked a lot about Claude Brown and this book. I’m due for a reread of Manchild in the Promised Land. I read it the year I graduated from high school and […]
#ReadSoulLit is back and should be even more fun this year. If you don’t know what #ReadSoulLit is, it’s a hashtag I started 4 years ago in February to encourage readers to support African-American writers specifically for Black History Month. The hashtag has now become a way of supporting black authors from all over the […]
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