Introducing my stack of books with #shortstories & #essays by black authors for the #OnceYouGoBlackOut challenge hosted by @reggiereads, @book_girl_magic, @absorbedinpages, @exlibrislls, @never_withouta_book, @lowelowexxoo & @thestackspod on bookstagram 😉 .
I am pleasantly surprised to find that my reading taste has slightly shifted and apart from my regular fix of fantasy & science fiction, I actually need to enrich myself with books that broaden my horizons. After 2 years of reading on purpose my brain fog attacks seem to have disappeared and I can effortlessly work my way through the most mind-boggling kind of sci-fi and challenging nonfiction material....Thank God 😒.... cause for a while I thought I was actually losing my mind. Thankfully it was the freaking Graves Disease which will never be fully under control but... at least I found a way to keep my 🧠 occupied and myself stress free & healthy.
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Anyways, off late my reading is somewhere between escapism and an occasional dose of reality to ground myself and make sense of the world. While you wouldn’t be able to tell from my total book collection, my essays and short stories book stack does represent where I am currently at in my reading journey. Ironically, the sci-fi/fantasy short stories collections featured here infuse magic and/or technology into the mundane as a way of examining modern society and more often than not these stories offer more food for thought than some of my non fiction books 🤔 .
In this stack you’ll find
📖 How Long 'til Black Future Month? - N.K. Jemisin
📖 Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
📖 Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - Glory Edim.
📖 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations - Toni Morrison .
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❝A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty❞
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Submitting #Beloved one of the most impressive #booktomovieadaptations to date for the #OnceYouGoBlackOut challenge hosted by @reggiereads, @book_girl_magic, @absorbedinpages, @exlibrislls, @never_withouta_book, @lowelowexxoo & @thestackspod on bookstagram 😉
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My introduction to this powerful story by Toni Morrison came by way of the movie. Very appreciative of the fact Oprah Winfrey took the time to produce and star in this otherwise underappreciated gem. Also my first introduction to an actress I still keep an eye on... Thandie Newton as Beloved.
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I got to see this adaptation on the big screen with my late aunt. My aunt always lovingly forced me to experience things without mentally preparing me for them. In this case she was totally right to spring this on me. Turns out this was a very limited screening, so in hindsight the fact that I even got to see this movie is even more special than I realized.
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From what I gather the movie is very faithful to it’s source material but fails to capture it’s complexity. I have not read the novel yet, but when it comes to the visualisation I can attest that the movie is as beautiful as it is heart-wrenching. Knowing that the novel ups the ante on the cinematic experience is the main reason for my procrastination. The movie left me very very shook...and I really have to mentally prepare for the ways in which this novel might effect me. .
However, all the aforementioned didn't stop me from acquiring a very special @foliosociety edition of Beloved. Simply because I know in my heart that once I have read the book, I will re-read this masterpiece for years to come ❤️
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Introducing my stack of #fantasy & #sciencefiction books by black authors for the #OnceYouGoBlackOut challenge hosted by @reggiereads, @book_girl_magic, @absorbedinpages, @exlibrislls, @never_withouta_book, @lowelowexxoo & @thestackspod on bookstagram 😉 •
It should be pretty obvious that fantasy and science fiction are my JAM!! To be honest this just happens to be my physical stack of books .... you should see my Kindle 😜 •
The reason why this stack is so enormous has less to do with preference and a lot more to do with the fact that most of these titles are not and probably will never be available at my local library. While the Rotterdam library carries a vast amount of English titles in various genres, Afrofuturism has yet to become a thing😒 ... as long as I can create my own library I guess it’s no biggie •
Anyways in this stack you’ll find
📖 Black Panther - Ta-Nehisi Coates
📖 Binti - Nnedi Okorafor 📖 Binti Home - Nnedi Okorafor
📖 The Night Masquerade - N. Okorafor
📖 Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
📖 Akata Warior - Nnedi Okorafor
📖 The Prey of Gods - Nicky Drayden
📖 Miles Morales - J. Reynolds
📖 Children of Blood and Bone - T. Adeyemi
📖 Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
📖 The Ballad of Black Tom - V. Lavalle
📖 The Changeling - Victor Lavalle
📖 Destroyer - Victor Lavalle
📖 The Black God’s Drums - P. Djèlí Clark
📖 The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
📖 The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin
📖 The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin
📖 How long till Black Future Month - N.K.Jemisin
📖 Kindred - Octavia Butler
📖 Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
📖 Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler
📖 Shadowshapor - Daniel José Older
📖 Shadowhouse Fall - Daniel José Older
📖 Friday Black - N. K Adjeh-Brenyah
📖 MEM - Bethany C. Morrow
📖 An Unkindness of Ghost - R. Solomon •
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❝To those who survived the crossing, and who carried their Black gods with them❞
In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air—by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie’s trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls “The Black God’s Drums.” But Creeper also has a secret: Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, speaks inside her head, and may have her own ulterior motivations… •
First of all, there is not one but two bad ass black females that might or might not save the day in this novella. While this was enough for me, I can imagine that you might need to know that Orishas make an appearance and that there are Nuns, who behave more like Obeah women instead of women who know all about the Holy Bible, before you pick this one up •
In case you need a little more convincing, you’ll find the link to my full review in the bio 😉. For me this was a solid ☆☆☆☆ •
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Introducing my stack of #Nonfiction books for the #OnceYouGoBlackOut challenge hosted by @reggiereads, @book_girl_magic, @absorbedinpages, @exlibrislls, @never_withouta_book, @lowelowexxoo & @thestackspod on bookstagram.
I can definitely recommend “Becoming by Michelle Obama” and I am still in the midst of reading ”Own Your Glow by Latham Thomas”. I have not had the pleasure of reading my other books yet and guess I am fully booked for 2019. •
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📖 Black Girls Rock - Beverly Bond.
📖 Little Leaders - Vashti Harrison.
📖 Born a Crime - Trevor Noah.
📖 Becoming - Michelle Obama.
📖 Own Your Glow - Latham Thomas.
📖 Afrofuturism - Ytasha L. Womack.
📖 I’m Judging You - Luvvie Ayayi.
📖 Between the world and me - T. Coats.
📖 Stamped from the beginning - I. Kendi.
📖 Creative Quest - Ahmir Q.Thompson.
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