Category: Read
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Adventures in Reading: 2024 Review
Changing my approach to reading was instrumental in me getting back on track with my reading goals this year; choosing books that were vetted by content creators I trust, friends and my TBR list really solidified it as a great reading year.
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Bone – Yrsa Daley-Ward
Emergency Warning I fell out of love with poetry for a while but was happy to rediscover it again in the say two years. Yrsa Daley Ward made me feel like she was writing for me and the women I knew so intimately through nothing but heart ache. I encourage you to explore yourself…
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The Color Complex
Snapped while reading. I really always have a problem with the insistence that Jesus would have been white but that’s not my battle to fight. The Color Complex: Kathy Russel, Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall. This is my second read through and it was less devastating this time around. I could take the emotion out…
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Gabriel García Márquez
While I knew he had been ailing for years, I never reconciled that knowledge with the natural eventuality of death. For me, he was a living champion of culture, of words, of language and of beauty that can only be captured by his pen. I haven’t cried yet, but the tears are coming. Finishing 100…
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Sonnet XXI
So is it not with me as with that Muse Stirr’d by a painted beauty to his verse, Who heaven itself for ornament doth use And every fair with his fair doth rehearse Making a couplement of proud compare, With sun and moon, with earth and sea’s rich gems, With April’s first-born flowers, and all…
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Fighters – Lupe Fiasco
Planning. Writing. Fighting. Hoping. This is my Saturday night. Title Reference: Fighters by Lupe Fiasco Ft. Matthew Santos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrOoX6xGntc
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The first time I fell in love
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/daily-prompt-its-friday-im-in-love/ It should be no secret that the first time I fell in love, it would be with a character from a book but the first time I fell in love with a book; it was a more memorable occasion. I was in High School in America and my English Teacher had told us only…
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Daily Prompt: BYOB
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/daily-prompt-books-2/ OMG a prompt about books? I’m at a loss for words but I took a picture of one of my shelves. On this particular book shelf which is ladder style and has 4 rows of shelves; I’ve already run run out of space. I long for the day when I can dedicate an…
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The Goddess Chronicle – Natsuo Kirino
I’ve been a fan of Natsuo Kirino for some time; my first run in with her was with Out. A fellow voracious reader recommended her when I said that there were no female mystery writers. I read Out, twice, back to back and then moved on to Grotesque and The Real World. I was mesmerized…
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