Gorilla, My Love | 
pickA two book day! One print & one audio. Both ⭐⭐⭐
I liked them both but didn't love.
Gorilla, My Love - short stories by a trailblazing African American writer. Examplers of voice. Each one brings a specific character and their truth to life. Some are brilliant.
Bibliolepsy. Written in 1997 & first time in English. Would be better in print. Fascinating portrait of a reader who loves books so much she becomes obsessed with having sex with writers.
Current mood. Province announced today we are going to code yellow which means single family bubbles and most things closed till Jan 31st. 😞 So I guess I'll be joining the #joyousjanuary #readathon. I'd like to knock off my #bookspin (tagged book) & #doublespin books and start to tackle the Canada Reads long list.
From today's walk to the nearby graveyard. It's very wintry here and more ❄️❄️❄️ ❄️ is on its way.
@Andrew65
pickDialogue is something that can make or break a story for me, and Bambara shines in this area. These stories are filled with memorable characters from New York or the American South, many of them strong-willed girls and teens. At the same time, they and the stories they inhabit are all very different. Bambara isn't content to revisit old terroritory: the styles, themes, and ideas shift in brilliant ways in each of these 15 perfect stories.
I love the dark humor in this passage and 'dull sofas ' cracked me up 😆
pickMy apologies for the delays! You can now read my full #LiteReads review of The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, our final #BlackHistoryMonth selection for this year (link below). I personally enjoyed the story, even if it was outside my usual areas of preference. Let me know in the comments what you thought of this one.
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Our new #LiteReads selection is The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara! Chosen with #BlackHistoryMonth in mind, this short story focuses on an educated woman taking a group of kids to a toy store as a lesson on social and economic inequality. You can find links to read it through the full intro post (link below). Be sure to let me know what your thoughts are once you've read it!
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"Monsters, you know, more than anybody else, need your pity cause they need beauty and love so bad."
-"Maggie of the Green Bottles"
""Zweep," I yelled, not giving a damn for intelligibility and decided that if ever I was to run away from home, I‘d take [my mother] with me. And with that in mind, and with Penelope splintering through the landscape and the pores secreting animal champagne, I bent my youth to the season‘s tempo and proceeded to lose my mind."
-"Sweet Town"
""Dear Mother"—I wrote one day on her bathroom mirror with a candle sliver—"please forgive my absence and my decay and overlook the freckled dignity and pockmarked integrity plaguing me this season.""
-"Sweet Town"
"It is hard to believe that there was only one spring and one summer apiece that year, my fifteenth year. It is hard to believe that I so quickly squandered my youth in the sweet town playground of the sunny city, that wild monkeybardom of my fourth-grade youthhood. However, it was so."
-"Sweet Town"
#somethingborrowed. Both a library AND borrow from someone. My professor, Carolyn Ferrell, loaned it to me as a part of our process. 🤓📚💝#booktober
