Boegershausen

Author Boegershausen

[boegershausens]

Doki y Mimi are two rescued satos from the streets of San Juan. A father/daughter pair who were rescued 6 months from each other, but are now together and play, sleep, eat, and watch television together. Follow their adventures at IG @DokiYMimi.

[boegershausens]

RIP Yvette Jordan.

Goodbye, Mama. You showed love to everyone around you, and collected hearts from all over the world. You will never be forgotten. ❤️💛💚🖤

Artwork by IG @m75er

[thefreeblackwomanslibrary]

The 2018 Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge

The brilliance, imagination and creativity of Black women is as expansive as the sky, join book lovers from all over the world in fun exploration of Black women’s literature all year long by participating in The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge for 2018.

Our goal is to read for at least one to three hours every day, so that by the end of the year we have read at least 20 very different books by Black women, if not more!! :) 

Books can be read in any order.

Share your books and opinions via social media (w/a photo of the book) using some or all of the following hashtags to connect to others taking part in the challenge. Feel free to create your own rating system and definitely let us know about the books you’ve enjoyed!!

#TFBWL2018 #TFBWLReadingChallenge #FreeBlackWomensLibrary #BlackWomanBibliophile  #BooksbyBlackWomen

Please tag The Free Black Women’s Library in all your posts & stay tuned for more info!!

Happy New Year and Happy Reading!! ——- Away We Go!!

A vintage Black Feminist/Womanist Text (published before 1999)

A contemporary Black Feminist/Womanist text (published between now & 1999)

An LGBTQ book: fiction, poetry or short story collection

An LGBTQ book: non fiction, memoir, autobiography, collection of essays

A book by a revolutionary/freedom fighter/political organizer or abolitionist

A book on self care, lifestyle strategy or personal development

A book on beauty, hair, fashion or style

A romance or erotica novel

A book that centers friendship between women

A YA novel

Any book by Toni Morrison

Any book by Alice Walker

Any book by Zora Neale Hurston

Any book by Octavia Butler

Any  book by a Caribbean author

Any  book by an African author

An Afro-futurist novel (science fiction, speculative, fantasy)

A book on health & healing (mental, emotional, physical)  

A book on spirituality, religion or sacred ideology

A book that takes place in your hometown

A book with a one word title

A book with a name in the title

An book that came out in the past year

A book recommended by someone you love, trust or respect

A book that is or became a play or film

An urban fiction story

A memoir or autobiography

A book where characters speak Patois, Creole, Geechee, Black vernacular/slang, non standard English

A book from your childhood, a classic or award winner 

A banned book

[ascendentashes]

If you want to “shock your audience” maybe you should just try writing a good story.

[writersnoonereads]

No one reads Virgilio Piñera, mostly because, as the Guardian tells it, his career was derailed when he “was arrested under [Fidel Castro’s] government’s clampdown on the ‘three Ps’ (’prostitutes,’ ‘pimps,’ and ‘pájaro’  – homosexuals in Cuban Spanish slang).”

At the time of this writing, the extent of Piñera’s work in print in English is a play and only a handful of poems, despite the fact that he was a prolific writer of short stories, many of which are included in Eridanos Library’s collection, Cold Tales.

Thanks to Marcel Schwob translator Kit Schluter for introducing me to Piñera’s work, which often reads like a more macabre Julio Cortazar.

Visit the Neglected Books site for more on this writer no one reads.