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By @becauseofthem via @RepostWhiz app: Ella Fitzgerald was known as the First Lady of Song and the Queen of Jazz. In 1958 she blazed one of many trails when she became the first African American woman to win a Grammy. Day 8 of 28 Days, 28 Photos - Celebrating Black History Month! Please Share + follow along to celebrate heroes, past and present, who have paved the way! Take the pledge at http://becauseofthemwecan.com/
Definitely adding these to my list... ššš #bookworm #blackauthors
Just a few #goodreads I picked up over the Christmas break... #booklover šššš
Just finished reading The Awesome Girlās Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men: A Novel by Ernessa T. Carter. I loved it! It was a laugh out loud, funny, heartbreaking, jaw dropping, relatable read that I was sad to see end. I canāt wait to read more by this author. If you havenāt read her previous novel 32 Candles, you should check it out. A few of the lead characters make an appearance in this one as well (but you can definitely read one without reading the other). But I highly recommend them both!
Happy Birthday to this beauty! ššš The late great Zora Neale Hurston... One of my favorite authors! She's the face of Google today... As she should be... #booklover #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #myfavorite
25 more powerful books for the black girls in your life.
More books for Bailey's list! #lovethis
Promote a positive self-image and healthy self-esteem as soon as possible with these books!
And these are going on my baby girl's list...Ā
For Harriet's list of 100 books by Black women everyone must read.
Some of these I've already read... But I'm definitely adding a few more of these to my list...Ā
Y'all know I'm a book lover, nerd, geek... Whatever you choose to label me but I went to a thrift store this morning with @imjustnaturallyme and got all of these and only spent $6 total! I'm so excited! You have no idea! šš #bookwhore #nerdygirl #igotarealproblem #geeksanonymous
Ever since I lost my mom at the age of 17, Iāve been really interested in āmother/daughter relationshipsāā¦ And especially those of African American women. There are so many conversations that I wish I wouldāve had the opportunity to have with my mom before she passed. Now that Iām expecting my daughter, literally any day now, watching this interview this morning on the Today show made me tear up. I canāt wait to share the bond with her that I had with my mom. And I canāt wait to read Maya Angelouās new book, āMom & Me & Momāā¦ Check out the link to see/read the interviewā¦Ā
In honor of Dr. Maya Angelou on her 85th birthdayā¦Ā
the prada plan series...
Disaya Morgan is the typical young girl you see in most urban fiction novels. Sheās the daughter of a well-known pimp and prostitute, was placed in foster care, raped and forced to fend for herself. Eventually she becomes just like her mother and allows money to make her forget any morals she ever had. Sheās beautiful, sheās making money, she can have any man she wants and other females are jealousā¦ especially one in particularā¦ Leah.
Disaya, better known as Ya Ya, meets Indie, a local hustler who is untouchable in the streets and everything sheās ever dreamed of in a man. They fall in love but the dramas of the street life and their pasts come back to haunt them, causing them both turmoil and hurt. And the story goes on this wayā¦. For three, long, nail biting, suspenseful booksā¦.
I really wish this saga would end and this story was over by nowā¦. Sighā¦Ā
Now donāt get me wrong, the storyline is great. As I was reading the first book, it was difficult for me to put it down. I was so caught up in this story and had to know what happened next. Once I was done, I immediately began to read āThe Prada Plan 2: Leahās Storyā. But once that one was over and I began to read the third (and what I was hoping would be the final) installment, āThe Prada Plan 3: The Green-Eyed Monsterā, I was over it. Itās like the never-ending story and I wish it would just end already. Part of my frustration with this series is that an obviously talented author gave me a familiar, predictable theme. I wouldāve enjoyed reading about a fresher perspective on urban life instead. Itās too much of the same thing. Every story is the same. Itās bad enough when books end, but for the ending to suck as well is even worse.
With all of that being said, the fourth installment isnāt expected until January 2014. And I do want to know what happens next. But why do I have a feeling that it still wonāt be over? Iāll probably be sending my kids off to college before this saga comes to an end.
Happy Reading!! (side eye)
Sidebar: This was my first time reading anything written by Ashley Antoinette or her husband JaQuavis. Iāve heard so much about them and Iāve always wanted to check them out so I decided to start with the Prada Plan (even though I know Ashley pinned these solo). Although the story line and creativity is awesome, if this is any indication as to how all of their books end (leaving you on a cliffhanger and thinking WTF?!), I think Iāll pass on the othersā¦
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the perfect marriage...
From the outside looking in, Denise & Derrek Shaw appear to have it all. The well paying jobs, nice house & cars, and a teenage daughter into any and every extra curricular activity you can imagine. But behind the pretense of their āperfect marriageā, they harbor a secret: They are both addicted to drugs.
Neither will admit that they have an addiction problem since they only use cocaine socially and Denise only takes a Vicodin pill here and there. But Derrek knows first hand the effects of drug abuse, as his parents were drug addicts who left him and his twin brother to live with their grandmother at a young age. He convinces Denise to attend a Narcotics Anonymous meeting with him where they agree to quit drugs forever.
Soon after, a devastating series of events take place surrounding their family, causing Denise & Derrek to turn to drugs once again to help them through their hardships. It isnāt until itās almost too late and theyāve seemingly lost everything theyāve worked so hard for before they realize that they do in fact have a problem and need help. But it may actually be too lateā¦ They may have already lost the one thing thatās most precious to them both.
Once again, Roby has written another great story. Itās an easy read and it allows you to see how even the most successful people can get caught up and into drugs if theyāre not careful. However, I thought that overall the story had been told before and was somewhat predictable. It feels familiarā¦ like something Iāve already read although I canāt say exactly when and where. There were no real twists, and no excitement. I kept waiting for that one thing that would shock me and catch me off guard but it never came.
Oh wellā¦ I guess itās to be expected because I tend to favor Robyās āRev. Curtis Blackā series over her stand-alone novels. The books from her series always seem new and are full of twists that I never even saw comingā¦ even after all these years of reading about this one man. So maybe Iām biased in my opinion but Iām much more excited about reading her next book (part of the āRev. Curtis Black series) titled āA House Dividedā due out in the spring.
Happy Reading!
a cupboard full of coats...
This, by far, was the best book Iāve read in a long timeā¦ and certainly one of my favorites this year (yes I know the year just started). I had to make myself put it down because I found myself reading at the most inopportune times such as while sitting at my desk while my boss was in the vicinityā¦. and I didnāt seem to really care if I got caught either.
Jinx, a woman in her early thirties is living alone in England as an embalmer. Sheās estranged from her husband and has a pretty non-existent relationship with her son, minus the weekends heās forced to visit. Unexpected and unannounced, an old family friend, Lemon, shows up at her door to unleash his guilt and the secrets heās held onto surrounding her motherās death some 15 years prior. As they spend one weekend together, Lemonās stories disclose many details that Jinx was oblivious to for years. But Jinx has her own stories to tell, also full of secrets and guilt. The stories transfer between the past and present seamlessly in a tale that is sure to have you on edgeā¦ literally dying to know what happens next.
This book is full of family secrets and cultureā¦ from the food, to the dialect and even how various skin tones and complexions are perceived.Ā A tasty sounding West Indian and Montserattian meal seemed to make itās way into every chapter, which only made Bailey and I (yes, Iām blaming it on my unborn, growing baby) hungry. The same West Indian dialect caused for me to re-read a couple sentences but didnāt take away from the story at all. If anything it helped me to better understand the characters personalities. There was however the perception that those individuals of a lighter skin tone were prettier than those of a darker tone. But isnāt this how society still operates??? Itās just never openly discussedā¦ And wait until you discover the semblance of the title to the storyā¦ I swear I had an āAha momentā! This is a definite must read and I recommend it to anyone who loves a good family drama!
Yvvette Edwards is a British author who has lived in London her entire life. A Cupboard Full of Coats is her first novel and it was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. I canāt wait to see what she does nextā¦
Happy Reading!