#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 11: Inspirational: a book that encourages you to love I worked at Borders Bookstore during the early 2000s. Back then, among some of the books flying off the shelves were Harry Potter, Oprah Book Club selections, and any author who had been a guest on Oprah’s show, including Dr. Phil and Iyanla … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 11: Inspirational
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 10: Cover Love: Beautiful cover and beautiful love story My rinky dink camera phone doesn’t do it justice, but the jacket cover of Tayari Jones‘ An American Marriage is absolutely stunning and gorgeous. Designed by Jaya Miceli, it has a simple graphic of a many-branched tree with the rich topaz background color … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 10: Cover Love
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 9: Sad Ending: a relationship with an unfortunate ending Loving Donovan by Bernice McFadden left me a little disturbed, but in a good way, kinda like the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt and Taraji P. Henson did. I read it years ago, and loved it, but I was … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 9: Sad Ending
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day7: To Be Read: a book you’ve been waiting to read As of now, my Goodreads account says I have 404 To Be Read books. I’m sure I have more titles scribbled on random pieces of paper, emails and texts I sent to myself. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons received lots of … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 7: To Be Read
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 6: #MCM: a male partner, husband or love interest I’m taking a bit of liberty with this one. Instead of writing about a character, I’m writing about an author. I can’t remember who I discovered first back in high school: Eric Jerome Dickey or Omar Tyree. I do remember a time when … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 6: #MCM
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 5: Tough: a relationship that endured tough times Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of those novels that seems to appear on every “Best Of” list. Honors for the novel include National Book Critics Circle Award and being voted one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 5: Tough
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy: a fantasy-based novel with a love connection. Now I will admit that fantasy is not my thing at all. I can watch fantasy/sci-fi movies and TV shows for hours on end, (I’m looking at you Game of Thrones and Lost; not you Lord of the Rings), but reading the … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 4: Fantasy
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals: a couple with an ideal relationship “Couple” and “love” do not always have to have romantic connotations. I chose the memoir Sing To Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who’s Next by singer-songwriter-music-exec L.A. Reid, which I read as an audiobook. In it, Reid talks about his decades-long … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 3: Relationship Goals
I’m what you’d call a Facebook lurker. Every now and then, countless hours are spent skimming posts. I scroll, chuckling at memes, watching videos, reading article headlines (sometimes even clicking and reading the article), screenshotting positive affirmations, and reading people’s rants. Sometimes I fall down the rabbit hole of the comments of hot button … More Can you fill this out without lying?
#BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple: your favorite couple in a book How could you not love Janie & Tea Cake in Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God? They didn’t give a damn about people’s opinions about their “unconventional relationship.” Tea Cake was younger than Janie by more than a decade, he was … More #BlackLoveBooks Challenge Day 2: Favorite Couple
