Here’s a fun challenge going around on bookstagram #lastbooki: Last Book I… Bought: Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed Borrowed: Citizen by Claudia Rankine Was Gifted: Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford Gave to Someone’s Else: All about Love by bell hooks Started: Communion by bell hooks Finished: Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damiola Blackburn…
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Majestic May.Mental Health Awareness Month.Month of celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage.Moody Spring Weather.Meaningful New Books to Read.Mastering New Goals. These are my hopefuls for May: Communion: The Female Search For Love by bell hooks Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Happy reading! What are you reading this month?
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Many readers, and most particularly those who review current publications, employ other standards for judging, and praising or condemning, the books they read – their novelty, their sensationalism, their seductiveness, their force, and even their power to bemuse or befuddle the mind, but not their truth, their clarity, or their power to enlighten. They have,…
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So, this month I’m participating in the Afrocentric April Booksta Tour on Instagram. This tour highlights African books and authors. Today is day 20, and the prompt is an author new to you. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Wole Soyinka) was born on July 13th, 1934, in western Nigeria and was the first African to be…
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