“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” – TONI MORRISON –
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Mid-Year Check In!
Hi friends! I cannot believe it’s already the end of July. Half of the year is gone! This year is flying by, but truthfully as I get older, the years are becoming a blur, haha… I set a few reading goals this year:1). To read 20 books by Black women, a wonderfully challenged started on…
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MUSING OF THE DAY
“When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas “marketplaced”, our rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholly unintelligible…
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Bookish Challenge #2
Here is another fun challenge from bookstagram #gettoknowmechallenge 5 Books I love Kindred Stay with Me Americanah A Girl is a Body of Water All About Love: New Visions 4 Auto-Buy Authors Toni Morrison bell hooks Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Yaa Gyasi 3 Favorite Genre Literary Fiction Historical Fiction Nonfiction 2 Places I Love to Read…
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March Wrapup 2022
I had such high reading hopes for March! I thought I would easily read 6 books this month. However, even though I had vacation days this month, I only managed to read 3 1/2 books. I’m still working on How to Read a Book, an impromptu addition. So far, the book has been fantastic, and…
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Prejudices: Can I Convince You That Twyla is Black?
*Spoiler Alert* As I stare out the window on this bleak, snowy morning, I contemplate Toni Morrison’s book, Recitatif, and my prejudices. As humans, we like to think we are perfect and have no bias, but we do! What are yours? Recitatif, the only short story by Morrison, was written in 1980 and was first published…
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MUSING OF THE DAY
Out of this history she made a literature, a shelf of books that-for as long as they are read-will serve to remind America that its story about itself was always partial and self-deceiving. And here, for many people, we reach an impasse: a dead end. If race is a construct, whither blackness? If whiteness is…
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Current Reads
It is a perfect cloudy evening to snuggle up and read with a cup of hot cocoa. I’m 100 pages or so into how to read a book, and I’m learning a ton. So check out my musing of the day for an interesting quote. My next read will be a novel from one of my favorite…
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Happy International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day, a day we celebrate women globally. So, I thought it would be a great day to highlight black women authors (Morrison, Makumbi, hooks) who I love and plan to continue to read. Of course, Toni Morrison, I cannot say enough great things about her. Even though she died a few…
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