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Book Review - Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Title: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 Author: Lucille Clifton Pages: 276 Rating: 5/5 How do I review this book? To say that I loved it does not even come close. A few weeks ago, I only knew one poem by Lucille Clifton — “won’t you celebrate with me”. For the last few years, I have made it my Facebook status on or near my birthday. But recently, The Mellon Foundation reshared its…
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Book Review -- Kill 'Em and Leave
Title: Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul Author: James McBride Pages: 256 Rating: 4.75/5 This was not a book on my ever-growing list of books to read. I would not call myself a James Brown fan. I know him, of course. I bet most of my generation can name a few songs. In a soundtrack of the Black experience, he’s got to be there with his howls, his grunts, his…
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Book Review - Dune
Book Review – Dune
Title: Dune Author: Frank Herbert Pages: 863 Rating: 3.95/5 ‘A world is supported by four things… the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…” She closed her fingers into a fist. “…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition.” The world of Dune is…
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#BookToMovieTrailer - Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
#BookToMovieTrailer – Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Director: Marcus A. Clarke Producer: Kenya Barris Studio: Netflix Slated Release: Thursday, September 9, 2021 Run Time: 1 hour 36 minutes Book: Blood Brothers – The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X Author: Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith Publication Date: November 1, 2016 Publisher: Basic Books Page Count: 362 pages In her review of the film for The Hollywood Reporter, Lovia…
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#BookToMovieTrailer - Dune
#BookToMovieTrailer – Dune
Book: Dune Author: Frank Herbert Originally Published: August 1965 Publisher: Chilton Company Page Count: 896 When Frank Herbert passed in 1986, The New York Times reported that his best-known novel Dune had sold more than 12 million copies. Originally intended to be a trilogy, the series eventually grew to six novels. The New York Times also reported that it had been rejected by 20…
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Mommy is Back
I have been gone for too long — so long, in fact, that I’d forgotten my login and that WordPress has updated it’s look. HOW DO I NAVIGATE THIS THING? In all seriousness, I have been meaning to get back to these close ups for months now. I did not realize how much time has passed until a work discussion brought me to this site. My last post was over a year ago. A lot has happened and I’ve…
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Book Review - Wisdom From The Mother of Black Hollywood
Book Review – Wisdom From The Mother of Black Hollywood
Title: The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
Author: Jenifer Lewis
Pages: 336
Rating: 5/5
Caring for a newborn can make reading (and blogging) difficult. So when my college roommate Dawn offered to gift me a free book on Audible, I readily accepted. I also knew just what I wanted to listen to – The Mother of Black Hollywood, Jenifer Lewis’s memoir. (more…)
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So I Did A Thing.... That Didn't Work Out
So I Did A Thing…. That Didn’t Work Out
This past May, I pre-ordered a Freewrite Traveler (read more about that here).
It was expected to ship in June. I expected to draft my future blog posts on the Traveler. I anticipated a summer and fall spent hacking away on a super cool keyboard device, producing all kinds of greatness. And (being the procrastinator that I know I am) I opted to take a break from writing, to “store up” my…
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So I Did A Thing....
So I Did A Thing….
I pre-ordered a Freewrite Traveler.
In the spirit of transparency, I must admit:
I am ashamed that I spent this much on what may essentially turn out to be a wireless keyboard (although I was excited to catch it on discounted pre-sale and to also find an additonal savings coupon code on Reddit that worked, so it wasn’t as expensive).
I am ashamedthat I spent this much less than 5 days after…
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Those Women We Almost Seem To Know
Those Women We Almost Seem To Know
One time, in my graduate Creative Writing program, a classmate referenced Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club so casually that I immediately sensed he or she hadn’t read it. I hadn’t either. Do not be alarmed – this was not a reading assignment. The person speaking hoped to draw a comparison between the actual assigned work and another. But all my peer could say was, “Oh course, Joy Luck Club is a…
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#TopTenTuesday - What Are You Listening To?
#TopTenTuesday – What Are You Listening To?
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl is about all things audio.
Although I am fairly new to the podcast scene (just became an avid listener about a year ago), I thought it only fitting to share with you eight of my favorite episodes from some of my favorite podcasts.
For the unfamiliar, a podcastis a digital audio file, made available on the internet for downloading (or…
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Book Review - How Scary is Pet Sematary?
Book Review – How Scary is Pet Sematary?
Title: Pet Sematary
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 395
Rating: 3.7/5
I’ve mentioned this before: my grandma says Pet Sematary, published in 1983, was so scary that she put it down halfway through and didn’t pick up another book by Stephen King until Mr. Mercedes, which debuted in 2014. A fan of King myself, I can’t say that Pet Sematary was on my list of books to read either — until I saw the tra…
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Book Review - Five-Carat Soul
Book Review – Five-Carat Soul
Title: Five Carat Soul
Author: James McBride
Pages: 308
Rating – 5/5
‘See, God favors the righteous. He favors us with words!…. Words, boy! Not a pistol or knife or cannon lingering in the whole bunch! Just words, passed from one ear to the next! Oh, yes, I wish I was lettered. Them.. words just lingers in my mind. They floats about me from day to day. Just… words they is. But powerful…
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#BookToMovieTrailer - Pet Sematary
#BookToMovieTrailer – Pet Sematary
For my grandma, Pet Sematary was the book. The last straw. She read it in the 80s but couldn’t finish it. Too scary. She did not finish the book — couldn’t — and did not read another Stephen King novel until the mid-2000s.
In case you don’t believe my grandma’s thoughts of the book, consider King’s. Rumor has it, he didn’t want to publish it — both his wife and a friend determined it too…
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#TopTenTuesday - New To Me
#TopTenTuesday – New To Me
Another #TopTenTuesday post, hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is a discussion on new authors read last year. Thank goodness for Goodreads because I had forgotten some of the books read earlier in the year. Of the 20 read, only 4.5 were people I’d read before (J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, Kiese Laymon, Dan Brown, and the .5 you’ll learn more about shortly. Everyone else was…
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Book Review - Children of Blood and Bone
Book Review – Children of Blood and Bone
Title: Children of Blood and Bone
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Pages: 525
Rating: 4.0/5
*mild spoilers below*
When Children of Blood and Bone first debuted, literary friends gushed that here was a new series to fill the void left by the Harry Potter series conclusion. I scoffed, certain that nothing could fill that soft ache — the magic of Harry Potter blended my childhood with great writing that cast…
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for colored girls.... A Tribute To Ntzoke Shange
for colored girls…. A Tribute To Ntzoke Shange
This past Saturday, Ntozake Shange, author of for colored girls…., died at the age of 70. In tribute to her legacy, I wanted to share this piece as tribute to her, written in March 2015.
I fell in love with the title. Courtesy Lionsgate
I was 19, ten days away from turning 20, when Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem debuted in theatres. The all-star cast: Kimberly…
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