Tag: black

I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman

Jul 8, 2020

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Black Authors, Erotic, Gender, Memoir, Race, Sexuality, Women Writers

Rating: 4/5, good I picked up this book because I saw Toni Newman on a Zoom call with Charlie Jane Anders and a lot of other trans and nonbinary authors. There were so many cool authors and good books to pick from it was a little overwhelming (the call included Alok Vaid-Menon, Meredith Talusan, Vivek…
Sula by Toni Morrison

Mar 7, 2020

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by

sbhowell

in 5 Star Books, Black Authors, Literature, Race, Sexuality, Women Writers

Diverse Reading Challenge #1 Rating: 4/5, good Sula is a modern classic. It was published in 1973 and is Morrison’s second novel after The Bluest Eye. I tried to read Beloved in college (it was assigned for Helene Moglen’s Gothic Imagination class – by the way, there’s a colloquium in her honor happening in March) but…