I liken sitting down to write to extending a branch of a tree, any leaves that sprout 🍃, the work you had hoped to produce (blossoms 🌸 in the case of those who endeavor to write poetry). Before you can write, before you can extend a branch, you must anchor your tree first, find your roots, locate a sturdy trunk. This is the collection of books that I have read and re-read, many times over, each for its own reason. They anchor my tree, form the base of any branch I have tried to extend: Americanah #chimamandangoziadichie Rattlebone #maxineclair Native Son #richardwright A Lesson Before Dying #ernestjgaines The Farming of Bones #edwidgedanticat A House for Mr. Biswas #vsnaipaul Sugar Street #naguibmahfouz Sent for You Yesterday #johnedgarwideman The In-Between World of Vikram Lall #mgvassanji A Gathering of Waters #bernicemcfadden I Know This Much is True #wallylamb ___________________________________________ #prose #literary #fiction #bookshelfie #booktube #booktastic #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #bibliophile #goodreads #booknerdigans #readsoullit #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚 https://www.instagram.com/p/BzDx9GvgVgd/?igshid=1s6mo1djnbysv