Tag: Black Literature
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Cole Brown & Natalie Johnson: Black Love Letters
I didn’t get what I expected from this book. Initially, I was just drawn to the cover. I mean, look at it! Once I got past the cover (but still not over it), I thought I was going to read a collection of letters about Black people being deeply in love with other Black people…
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Raven Leilani – Luster
Luster was another book I had a difficult time putting down. It was like witnessing something you shouldn’t be privy to and not being able to look away. These people had issues! Thing is, all people have issues and this book was very much a weird peek into the dysfunction that can happen when other…
Christine
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May Writing Goals
I’ve come to two conclusions since last week: Fridays should be my writing days. I’m going to finish my novel before continuing my next collection of essays. I’ve recently started working with my cousin and (separately) her web designer. I’m working part time for both of them (9a-1p and 1p-5p, respectively), but I don’t work…
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Book Two Doubts
I did not have high expectations for my first book. I wrote it because I had to; it was the only way to move forward. I received a lot of support from family and my mom’s work friends that I did not expect, but it was very much welcomed. Even before I published Discovering My…
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Does Anyone Else Get Triggered by Notifications?
So, I’m currently on this social media break, right? Well, I’ve been trying out some of the fancy new features on the S21+, including Bixby Routines and Focus Mode, so I set a focus mode to specifically keep IG and Snapchat locked and had it running for the first few days of this month. All…
Christine
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New Desk, a Social Media Break, and a Month of Loving on Myself
Hello February and Happy Black History Month! I posted on Instagram a few days ago, reminding myself that painted desks aren’t paint-proof. You see, I recently upgraded from a small glass desk (it was an office entryway table in a former life, and by “former life” I mean “at my old property management job”) to…
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Kiese Laymon: Long Division
Well, that took a lot longer than I thought it would. Have you ever read a book that seems to be getting a lot of praise and talk about how good it is and then, once you’ve finished the book and are unimpressed, feel like you’re missing out on some secret everyone else is in…
Christine
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My First Book Signing
It’s funny how we have ideas in our heads about what we want and what we will or won’t do and how we so often end up doing things we said we wouldn’t or not doing things we said we would. When I started seriously working on the publishing process for Discovering My Outside Voice,…
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Gratitude
Can we take a second to appreciate a short work week? We had a great time on vacation, but I got almost no sleep because I can never sleep in strange beds, so I’m still playing catch up with my Zs. Our administrative assistant is out all week so I’m back to doing both our…
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The First Week
What a week! As someone who has never published a book before, I didn’t really know what to expect from the first week of my book being available to purchase. When I decided to write and publish this book, it was out of necessity. I had all these stories to tell, but wasn’t telling them,…
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