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Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood & Bone
Happy Monday! I feel like talking about books is the best way to begin the week, don’t you? First, what I added to my “To Read” list last week: Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X – Russell J. Rickford Now for the meat & potatoes (though I’m currently limiting my meat to fish only. #thestruggleisreal) Children…
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Hello Again!
Oh how I’ve missed you! I’ve really missed talking about books and sharing with you what I’m reading. I’ve read some pretty good books so far this year and was just itching to talk about them. I’m still in the middle of redesigning this blog, ass well as my [now] main blog over at Insert…
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Goodbye…for Now
I’ve been contemplating this for quite some time, but I’ve decided to officially put Christine’s Book Collection on an indefinite hiatus. You may be thinking, “okay…you’ve only got like eight followers anyway so who cares?” Yes, I’m pretty sure there are less than 20 people who follow this blog, and I post so irregularly that…
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Tananarive Due: The Black Rose
The Black Rose is a story of Madam Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, a hair culturist and one of the first Black female millionaire. In the simplest of summaries, Sarah Breedlove was the child of slaves, a washerwoman, a cook. She’d had problems with her hair most of her life. It was dry, itchy, and wouldn’t…
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Jamie Langston Turner: A Garden to Keep
I found out A Garden to Keep is part of a series (The Derby Series) right before typing this post. I don’t know if I can stomach another long-winded journal, so I probably won’t seek out any of the others in this series. Now don’t get me wrong, I found the progression of Elizabeth’s thoughts…
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