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The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Mar 16, 2020

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Gender, General Fiction, Latine Authors, Race, Romance, Sexuality, Women Writers

Rating: 4/5, good Diverse Reading Challenge #2 Imagine The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants but make all the girls Latina women in their late 20s and you have The Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes. The Dirty Girls Social Club is about six women who call themselves the sucias: Lauren, Usnavys, Amber, Sara, Liz, and…
Sula by Toni Morrison

Mar 7, 2020

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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…