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Some upcoming virtual events from Books of Wonder 

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80 Young Adult Books by Black Authors

Supporting Black authors is something that I definitely need to start doing more, so I’ve compiled a list of 80 YA books by Black authors. I’m putting the ones that I’ve read at the top in bold, and the rest will be books that I have looked up and have put on my list to read. I can’t do much to change what’s going on in our world right now, but I can do my part to support the Black community in any way that I can. These are in no particular order and please feel free to add more!

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Calling My Name by Liara Tamani

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

Odd One Out by Nic Stone

Jackpot by Nic Stone

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone - coming out 9/29/20

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

Oh My Gods by Alexandra Sheppard

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi

Love Me or Miss Me: Hot Girl, Bad Boy by Dream Jordan

Spin by Lamar Giles

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

The Belles Series by Dhonielle Clayton

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Voice in My Head by Dana L. Davis

I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

The Evolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite

Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

Solo by Kwame Alexander

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

By Any Means Necessary by Candid Montgomery

War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi

Light It Up by Kekla Magoon

Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather

I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz

The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Opposite Of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

Buried Beneath The Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

The Effigies Series by Sarah Raughley

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope edited by Patrice Caldwell

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

Nightmare of the Clans by Pamela E. Cash

Black Boy, White School by Brian F. Walker

Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson

Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

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Black Lives Matter: A Reading List

On this blog, we believe Black Lives Matter. I’ve been quiet here because I’ve just been absorbing and listening and loud on other platforms. But I wanted to take the time and share some books by Black authors that may not be on your radar, books besides The Hate U Give and Dear Martin and Children of Blood and Bone (though I hope you’re reading those too, you’ve probably heard of them at this point). It also won’t just be books about Black pain because Black people have a huge range of experiences and they all deserve to be heard.

All the links in this post will go to Mahogany Books, a Black owned bookstore in Washington, D.C. that does ship. If I can’t find it on their website, the link will go to Semicolon Bookstore, another Black owned indie bookstore, this one located in Chicago’s, Bookshop page. Please note that many books are currently backordered because there’s a huge rush on books by Black authors (especially anti-racist books) right now and there was already a paper shortage and delays in printing because of COVID-19. If that’s the case, check your local library’s digital resources or check other bookstores since they all have varying stock.

Non-Fiction

We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Contemporary and Historical

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess The Wicker King by K. Ancrum Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert Pointe by Brandy Colbert The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis The Voice in My Head by Dana L. Davis When the Stars Lead to You by Ronni Davis I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett Endangered by Lamar Giles Fake ID by Lamar Giles Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles Overturned by Lamar Giles Spin by Lamar Giles A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson This is My America by Kim Johnson You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kim Jones and Gilly Segal If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann 37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon Light It Up by Kekla Magoon By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery Home and Away by Candice Montgomery Slay by Brittney Morris Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe Girls Like Us by Randi Pink Sorry Not Sorry by Jaime Reed All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds For Every One by Jason Reynolds Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds Truly Madly Royally by Debbie Rigaud The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith Jackpot by Nic Stone Odd One Out by Nic Stone All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani Calling My Name by Liara Tamani On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson This Side of Home by Renee Watson Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon American Street by Ibi Zoboi Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi Pride by Ibi Zoboii

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Daughters of Nri by Reni K. Amayo The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton Mirage by Somaiya Daud The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams The Black Veins by Ashia Monet A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow Akata Witch by Nendi Okorafor Shadowshaper by Danielle Jose Older Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige Orleans by Sherri L. Smith Given by Nandi Taylor

This isn’t a complete list and I probably missed a bunch - especially since this list is very focused on mainstream publishing. I also added a few books that aren’t out yet, but are coming out this summer. But this is a starting place for whatever kind of YA book you want to read.

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2020 Reading Challenge Report

I really liked it last year when I made a spread in my journal with my best of books for 2019. So here’s my best of for 2020. 

I was WAY surprised that all my favorite books this year were non-fiction. That doesn't mean I didn’t read any good fiction this year, I definitely did. But the truly outstanding, five star books were all non-fiction. This is super weird for me because I never used to read non-fiction unless it was for school. But last year I made a deal with myself that I should have a non-fiction book as at least one of my books-in-progress at all times. I continued that rule this year and wow have I read some great stuff as a result. 

Metrics:

Total books read in 2020: 87 

If you remove all the books I read with kids, that’s 64. If you remove the books I read with kids and also graphic novels (which—despite being books, goddamn it—admittedly take a lot less time to read), I read 45 books this year.  I refuse to remove the audiobooks because that’s hella insulting.  Audiobooks are books.

One thing I noticed this year is that before I counted, I was under the impression that I had read a lot of books by Black authors this year, but I hadn't. In fact, it was far fewer than last year. I think part of what was internally confusing was that because two of my books were Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns, both substantial (in the thinking sense and the length sense), at any given time this year, I was reading at least one book by a Black author. So that skewed my thinking. Still, fewer than 10% Black authors is a poor metric.

Another thing I noticed was that cancelled plans for 10 months also means cancelled car trips (yay!) and cancelled audiobook listenings (boo!) So that cut into my total a bit, not listening to books as much with the kids. But I'm looking forward to lots more reading in the new year! Including finishing a bunch of books the kids and I are reading for school and tons of stuff for work. Because I like to have things going on every burner, there are 10 books in progress at the moment, about half of them for school. 

In case you might be interested, here’s my list, favorites in bold:

Non-Fiction (23)

Figuring, Maria Popova

Know My Name, Chanel Miller

*The Fire Never Goes Out, Noelle Stevenson

With Purpose and Principle, Edward Frost

Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson

Widening the Circle of Concern, COIC, UUA

Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, Andy Warner

Breaking and Blessing, Sean Parker Dennison

This Book is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand

The Library Book, Susan Orlean

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Jenn Shapland

Furious Hours, Casey Cep

Scrappy Little Nobody, Anna Kendrick

I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara

Catch and Kill, Ronan Farrow

*Laika, Nick Abadzis

*First Year Out: A Transition Story, Sabrina Symington

* Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir, Maggie Thrash

*Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, Don Brown

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe

*A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities, Mady G., J.R. Zuckerberg

*Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up, Heather Corinna, Isabella Rotman

Fiction (40)

*Heartstopper, vol 1&2, Alice Oseman

When the Tripods Came, John Christopher

Empty World, John Christopher

You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson

The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo

*This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki

*Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

To Night Owl, From Dogfish, Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

* Almost American Girl, Robin Ha

Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey

When We Were Magic, Sarah Gailey

Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, Olivia Waite

The Dreamers, Karen Thompson Walker

The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Less, Andrew Sean Greer

*Drama, Raina Telgemeier

The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel

Severance, Ling Ma

Once, Morris Gleitzman

Then, Morris Gleitzman

Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers

The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz

Royal Rebel, Jenny Frame

*Sidekicks, Dan Santat

The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo

*Snapdragon, Kat Leyh

Catfishing on Catnet, Naomi Kritzer

*Princess Princess Ever After,  Katie O'Neill

*The Prince and the Dressmaker, Jen Wang

*All Summer Long, Hope Larson

Children of Virtue and Vengence, Tomi Adeyemi

On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis

*Kiss Number 8, Colleen A.F. Venable, Ellen T. Crenshaw

*Queen of the Sea, Dylan Meconis

Read With the Kids (23)

Sentence Island, Michael Clay Thompson (NF)

*Hereville: How Minka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch

Hatchet, Gary Paulson

The Dreamer, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Peter Sis

Before Columbus, Charles Mann (NF)

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse, Joseph M. Marshall III

It's a Feudal, Feudal World, Stephen Shapiro and Ross Kinnaird (NF)

Pedro's Journal, Pam Conrad

A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck

Sees Behind Trees, Michael Dorris

The Shakespeare Stealer, Gary Blackwood

The Giver, Lois Lowry (reread for me)

The Saturdays, Elizabeth Enright (reread)

Timmy Failure: Mistakes were Made, Stephan Pastis

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, E.L. Konigsburg

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

Wayside School is Falling Down, Louis Sachar

A Little History of Philosophy, Nigel Warburton (NF)

The Parker Inheritance, Varian Johnson

How to Think Like a Cat, Stephanie Garnier (NF)

Book Scavenger, Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The Third Mushroom, Jennifer L. Holm

*=graphic novel

I read 87 books this year, by 80 authors

Authors of color = 14 Black authors = 7 Women or non-cis-gender men authors = 53 Graphic novels = 22 Non-fiction = 28 Queer characters = 28 Audiobooks = 26

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books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums -  P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents  - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen 

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

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Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

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Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

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Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

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Everything You Need to Know About the Movie - Green Book

Everything You Need to Know About the Movie – Green Book

Academy Award® nominee VIGGO MORTENSEN (Captain Fantastic, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eastern Promises) and Academy Award® winner MAHERSHALA ALI (Moonlight, Hidden Figures) star in Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures’ Green Book. Directed by PETER FARRELLY, the film is inspired by a true friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line.

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GREEN BOOK | Feel-Good Drama ft. Mahershala Ali & Viggo Mortensen

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Just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, Universal Pictures will be releasing the feel-good drama, GREEN BOOK.

In his foray into powerfully dramatic work as a feature director, Peter Farrelly helms the film inspired by a true friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line. The film stars Academy Award winner MAHERSHALA ALI (Moonlight, Hidden Figures) and Academy Award…

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2017 reading wrap-up

I don’t normally do this, but I figured that since this year was the first year I kept track of the books I read and also set a specific goal (1/3 books by authors of color), I thought it could be interesting to see what I read in 2017. And yeah, this is a little late but I didn’t have laptop over Christmas break so *shrug*.

I read 186 books total, with 73 being by authors of color. (That’s actually 11 more books than I needed to read, so yay for being an overachiever.) I think having a specific number to aim for helped me to diversify my reading and push me to read things I wouldn’t normally have read and I want to continue doing that. Of those 186 books, 108 had a person of color as a pov character and 61 had a LGBTQIAP+ main character. I think I’ll try to focus on reading more books with good disability representation next year because I only read 23 books with a disabled main character (not counting thrillers that used mental health as an an unreliable narrator plot twist because ugh). 

I read mostly the same number of books (between 9-20) each month during school or summer, which surprised me since I normally think of myself as reading more during vacations. Also, I read 9 books when I should have been doing NaNoWriMo, which might explain why I didn’t finish..

Anyway, here’s the whole list below the cut if anyone wants to see!

*=reread

January

1/ Vicarious by Paula Stokes

2/ Run by Kody Keplinger

3/ Pantomime by Laura Lam

4/ Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

5/ Don’t Fail Me Now by Una LaMarche

6/ The Force Awakens novelization by Alan Dean Foster

7/ The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury*

8/ Timekeeper by Tara Sim

9/ Tattoo Atlas by Tim Floreen

10/ Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova*

11/ Life in Motion by Misty Copeland

12/ Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak

13/ Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis

14/ This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston

15/ The Impostor Queen by Sarah Fine*

16/ The Cursed Queen by Sarah Fine

February

17/ See No Color by Shannon Gibney

18/ This Side of Home by Renée Watson

19/ I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil

20/ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

21/ Rogue One novelization by Alexander Freed

22/ Railhead by Philip Reeve

23/ When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore*

24/ Truthwitch by Susan Dennard*

25/ Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

26/ The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig*

27/ Here We Are: Feminism For the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen

28/ We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

29/ City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson

30/ Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza

31/ A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab*

32/ The Young Elites by Marie Lu*

March

33/ A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab*

34/ A Study In Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

35/ History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

36/ The Rose Society by Marie Lu*

37/ The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

38/ Windwitch by Susan Dennard

39/ American Street by Ibi Zoboi

40/ The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

41/ The Midnight star by Marie Lu

42/ Heist Society by Ally Carter

43/ Pasadena by Sherri L. Smith

44/ A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho

45/ Camp So-and-So by Mary McCoy

46/ Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

47/ Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

48/ Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz*

49/ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

50/ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

51/  The Last of August Brittany Cavallaro

April

52/ Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

53/ Every Breath by Ellie Marney*

54/ Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

55/ Dramarama by E. Lockhart

56/ Every Word by Ellie Marney*

57/ The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee

58/ Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee

59/ The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

60/ Caraval by Stephanie Garber

61/ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

62/ Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

63/ Every Move by Ellie Marney

64/ Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

65/ These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas*

66/ A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

67/ Fear the Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh

68/ The Valiant by Lesley Livingston

69/ 37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon

70/ The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

71/ The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig

72/ Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

73/ Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

74/ Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

May

75/ The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

76/ Hunted by Meagan Spooner

77/ The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos*

78/ A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi

79/ Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman

80/ How To Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

81/ To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

82/ P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

83/ P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

84/ Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley

85/ You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner

86/ The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein

87/ The Weight of Stars by Tessa Gratton*

June

88/ Does My Head Look Big In This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah

89/ Diverse Energies edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti

90/ The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie*

91/ The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

92/ The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

93/ Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

94/ Cat Girl’s Day Off by Kimberly Pauley

95/ Rook by Sharon Cameron*

96/ York by Laura Ruby

97/ Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

98/ Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

99/ False Hearts by Laura Lam*

100/ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

101/ The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord

102/ Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

103 That Thing We Call A Heart by Sheba Karim

104/ In A Perfect World by Trish Doller

July

105/ Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray

106/ Want by Cindy Pon

107/ Behold the Bones by Natalie C. Parker

108/ The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

109/ When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

110/ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

111/ This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab*

112/ Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older*

113/ Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab

114/ If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

115/ Because You Love To Hate Me edited by Ameriie

116/ Wildlife by Fiona Wood

117/ Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson*

118/ The Diviners by Libba Bray*

119/ Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

120/ Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim

121/ The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

122/ Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray*

123/ Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh

124/ Amberlough by Lara Elena Donelly

August

125/ The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Gray*

126/ The Next Together by Lauren James

127/ Past Perfect by Leila Sales

128/ The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana

129/ Once and For All by Sarah Dessen

130/ Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody

131/ Burn For Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

132/ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman*

133/ The Great American Whatever by Time Federle

134/ Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds

135/ Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

136/ Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

137/ Solo by Kwame Alexander

September

138/ The Savage Dawn by Melissa Gray

139/ Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez

140/ Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff

141/ Dove Arising by Karen Bao

142/ Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

143/ Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

144/ Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert

145/ Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

146/ Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell

147/ Warcross by Marie Lu

148/ Spinning by Tillie Walden

149/ Release by Patrick Ness

150/ Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill

October

151/ Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

152/ Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

153/ Dress Codes For Small Towns by Courtney Stevens

154/ Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older

155/ Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

156/ Venturess by Betsy Cornwell

157/ Night of Cakes and Puppets by Laini Taylor

158/ An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

159/ When I Am Through With You by Stephanie Kuehn

160/ Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

161/ Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon

November

162/ Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George

163/ The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

164/ You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

165/ Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

166/ In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

167/ A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

168/ Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

169/ Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta

170/ Geekerella by Ashley Poston

December

171/ You Don’t Know Me But I Know You by Rebecca Barrow

172/ Like Water by Rebecca Podos

173/ Last Leaves Falling by Fox Benwell

174/ Black Boy, White School by Brian F. Walker

175/ Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser

176/ They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

177/ The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

178/ If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth

179/ Empress of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

180/ King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Anne Berthelot

181/ Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

182/ Life On Mars by Tracy K. Smith

183/ Grendel’s Guide to Love and War by A.E. Kaplan

184/ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

185/ The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

186/ You Don’t Know Me But I Know You by Lilly Anderson

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www.gamezone.co.id | Green Book merupakan film yang dirilis oleh Universal Pictures pada 21 November 2018. Film ini disutradarai oleh Peter Farrelly, yang juga menulis skenario bersama Brian Hayes Currie dan Nick Vallelonga. Peter merupakan sutradara, produser dan juga penulis skenario.

Green Book dibintangi oleh Viggo Mortensen yang berperan sebagai Tony Lip. Viggo merupakan seorang aktor berbakat, ia juga seorang penulis, musisi dan fotografer. Ia pernah membintangi beberapa film Hollywood ternama antara lain Captain Fantastic (2016), Far From Men (2014), On The Road (2012) dan masih banyak lagi film lainnya.

Green Book bercerita tentang seorang tukang pukul berdarah Italia-Amerika dari kalangan kelas pekerja yang menjadi pengemudi seorang pianis klasik Afrika-Amerika dalam tur tempat-tempat melalui Amerika Selatan pada 1960-an.

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Detail Film :

Genre : Drama Komedi

Sutradara : Peter Farrelly

Produser : Jim Burke, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Kwame L Parker, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler

Penulis naskah : Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly

Rumah produksi : Amblin Partners, Participant Media, Conundrum Entertainment, Cinetic Media

Distributor : Universal Pictures

Tanggal rilis : 11 September 2018 (TIFF), 21 November 2018

Durasi film : 130 menit

Detail Pemain Film :

Linda Cardellini berperan sebagai Dolores

Don Stark berperan sebagai Jules Podell

Sebastian Maniscalco berperan sebagai Johny

Brian Stepanek berperan sebagai Graham Kindell

Iqbal Theba berperan sebagai Amit

Von Lewis berperan sebagai Bobby Rydell

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One of the most talked about films coming out this holiday season is Universal Studios' GREEN BOOK.  Set in the South in the 1960's it celebrates an unlikely friendship between a White Italian and a Black man.   In conjunction with Universal Studios, FlickDirect would like to offer some lucky winners the opportunity to see a special advance screening on Monday, November 19, 2018, before it opens nationwide.To enter simply subscribe to FlickDirect Uncut on YouTube and send an email to contest@flickdirect.com (Subject: GREEN BOOK Contest) with your username for verification.We will choose entries at random to win one admit-two passes for Cinemark Boynton Beach 14 at 7:30 pm on November 19, 2018.The contest ends November 17, 2018. For more information please visit GREEN BOOK in the FlickDirect Movie Database or https://ift.tt/2DtVwgu Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Hidden Figures) star in Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures' Green Book.  In his foray into powerfully dramatic work as a feature director, Peter Farrelly helms the film inspired by a true friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line.When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans.  Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime. Jim Burke (The Descendants), Charles B. Wessler (The Heartbreak Kid) produce alongside Farrelly's fellow writers, Brian Currie and Nick Vallelonga, and Farrelly.  The drama is executive produced by Participant's Jeff Skoll (The Help) and Jonathan King (Lincoln), along with Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station) and Kwame L. Parker (Kill Bill series), as well as Cinetic Media's John Sloss (Boyhood) and Steven Farneth.  Linda Cardellini (Brokeback Mountain, The Founder) co-stars.Rated PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned - Some Material May Be Inappropriate for Children Under 13) for thematic content, language including racial epithets, smoking, some violence, and suggestive material.NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Limit one admit-two pass per person. This film is rated PG-13. Must be 13 years of age or older to win passes. Employees of all promotional partners and their agencies are not eligible. Void where prohibited. Entries must be received by 11:59 pm on November 17, 2018, to be eligible to receive a pass. Winners will be contacted via e-mail to receive their pass. Sponsors not responsible for incomplete, lost, late or misdirected entries or for failure to receive entries due to transmission or technical failures of any kind. SEATING IS LIMITED, SO ARRIVE EARLY. PASS DOES NOT GUARANTEE A SEAT AT THE SCREENING. Refer to the screening pass for further restrictions. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.Be sure to also download the free Movie Hype App for more great contests and giveaways!

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Green Book In Theaters Thanksgiving https://ift.tt/2Ilqech Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Hidden Figures) star in Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures’ Green Book. In his foray into powerfully dramatic work as a feature director, Peter Farrelly helms the film inspired by a true friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger—as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime. Jim Burke (The Descendants), Charles B. Wessler (The Heartbreak Kid) produce alongside Farrelly’s fellow writers, Brian Currie and Nick Vallelonga, and Farrelly. The drama is executive produced by Participant’s Jeff Skoll (The Help) and Jonathan King (Lincoln), along with Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station) and Kwame L. Parker (Kill Bill series), as well as Cinetic Media’s John Sloss (Boyhood) and Steven Farneth. Linda Cardellini (Brokeback Mountain, The Founder) co-stars.Green Book - In Theaters Thanksgiving (What Is The Green Book Featurette) [HD] https://youtu.be/D1iiyUSjmaE

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http://instagr.am/p/BYlb1mEHY-H/media/?size=l Si de por sí la última década ha estado marcada por la disparidad mayoritaria que se ha dado entre la Conferencia Este y la Oeste, el Mercado NBA 2017 ha dado la última puntada para descompensar la liga. Paul George, Carmelo Anthony, Jimmy Butler, Paul Millsap o Brook Lopez, todos All Star en un momento dado, se han mudado al Oeste, que este año sí parece claramente superior a la costa del Atlántico. Allí queda en su trono LeBron. Al menos hasta que quiera cambiarlo, porque los rumores sobre su salida de Cleveland van a ir a más durante esta campaña. Kyrie Irving, hasta ahora su escudero, aspira a ser príncipe en Boston, el equipo que mejor se ha reforzado con diferencia en la Conferencia, aunque habrá que ver cómo encaja sus piezas. Mercado NBA 2017: Traspasos y fichajes de agentes libres por equipo A partir de ahí y de la una Final en el Este que se da casi por firmada, se abre un abanico de dudas que repasamos en esta previa NBA. La armada verde: Boston Celtics Dueños del Este durante regular season el año pasado, en Playoffs se notó desde primera ronda que Boston aún no tenía hechuras de equipo capaz de combatir por las cotas más altas, aunque sí para la épica, como demostró toda la historia de tragedia y grandeza del pequeño Isaiah Thomas. Sin embargo, unos meses más tarde Isaiah no está, con todo lo que supone tanto en el aspecto deportivo como en el del compromiso para un franquicia que siempre ha presumido de tratar bien a sus jugadores. El pequeñín de 174 centímetros y 29 puntos por noche fue intercambiado por Kyrie Irving, el mejor driblador de la NBA con ganas de dejar de ser escudero de LeBron para ser príncipe. Junto a él estará también Gordon Hayward, el elegido desde hace ya dos veranos por Danny Ainge y el mundo celtic como candidato a dar un paso más a la franquicia. Es el único hombre importante que ha hecho el viaje inverso cuando todas las estrellas ponen rumbo del Este al Oeste. Nombrar solo las palabras alero y blanco ya causan sensación en Boston. Y además, manda narices, Hayward, como Larry, también es de Indiana. Brad Steven -quien dirigió precisamente al ex de Utah en la Universidad- tendrá la labor de hacer funcionar esta armada que ha perdido piezas a cambio de mayor artillería. El banquillo notará las bajas que ha habido y el quinteto y la defensa sobre todo la marcha de Avery Bradley. Veremos si sale bien. Aspecto clave: Boston suele comenzar la temporada a medio gas. Si esta arrancan bien y con Irving y Hayward conectados, hay partido. Quien sabe incluso hasta qué cotas. Pronóstico: 55 victorias o más El Rey en el Este: LeBron y los Cavs Los Cleveland Cavaliers afrontan su cuarta temporada desde el regreso de LeBron James, y la primera con un cambio de ejército grande. El traspaso de Kyrie Irving pone varias cosas de manifiesto. La primera, que al menos con Kyrie la relación con LeBron como ‘hermano mayor’ del grupo y hombre todopoderoso no era la mejor. La segunda, que puesto que el ambiente estaba enrarecido, se ha hecho bien en lograr la salida del base, aunque sea para reforzar al máximo rival en el Este. A cambio llegaron como piezas importantes Isaiah Thomas y Jae Crowder. Dos piezas que pueden ir muy bien a Cleveland. Si bien no se sabe si el equipo perderá demasiado en Regular Season con la salida de Irving o en Playoffs con sus momentos en el clutch, sí que está claro que la fórmula obtenida de Boston (base anotador donde los haya + alero polivalente y cumplidor como pocos) parece buena cuanto menos para probar algo distinto junto con la imprevisible aportación de Derrick Rose y el innegable centro de gravedad que aportará Dwyane Wade al juego. En definitiva, parece que han logrado algo con lo que puedan plantear al menos un escenario distinto a los Warriors. Todas las preguntas que nos deja el traspaso de Irving e Isaiah Thomas La temporada, como no, se moverá con continuos rumores de si LeBron amenaza con no renovar a final de curso para poner rumbo a Lakers o donde fuera. Hay motivos para creérselos y otros para pensar que no. LeBron ha demostrado amar su ciudad pero también ama ganar, y a su ciudad ya le ha dado un anillo. La clave: que Isaiah esté sano lo antes posible y esté al menos a un 80% de su nivel con Boston. 29 puntos por partidos no son moco de pavo. Pronóstico: 50-55 victorias Tipos rudos de viejo y nuevo cuño Washington Wizards Sin bajas relevantes en su roster menos la de Bojan Bogdanovic y su recambio con Jodie Meeks desde Orlando, los Wizards se plantan ante este curso como el definitivo para su asalto a la cima. Lo tienen todo, incluida la renovación millonaria de Otto Porter para no perder enteros. John Wall ya reclama su puesto como el que puede ser en pocos años -cuando CP3 se retire- el mejor base completo de la liga (¡ey! Nos referimos por su capacidad para asistir y robar balones además de hacer diabluras, no nos crucifiqués, Westbrook y Curry e incluso Lillard pueden estar por delante en otros aspectos) y el equipo y la ciudad en definitiva se lo merece. Draftearon a Kwame Brown y ahora tienen a Trump al lado de su pabellón. Aspecto clave: que Wall siga siendo Wall y mantengan su carácter en Playoffs. Récord: 50 victorias Toronto Raptors Hablar de Toronto, si hace unos años era de ilusión, ahora se hace con algo de pereza. El proyecto que partió bajo la batuta mágica de Masai Ujiri ha hecho progresar a la franquicia hasta su cima… pero parece que ya no puede ir más allá. La llegada de Ibaka el curso pasado y la continuidad de Lowry y DeRozan son sus mayores virtudes en el mercado, donde además han conseguido cambiar a DeMarre Carroll (ahora en Nets) por CJ Miles. No hay mucha novedad que comentar, y quizá eso sea lo peor para ellos. Aspecto clave: la salud de Lowry y que tengan un periodo de gracia en Playoffs. Pronóstico: 40-45 victorias Los guerreros llegados del futuro: Milwaukee Bucks Sin apenas cambios en su roster (han llegado Gerald Green y Brandon Rush y se han marchado Michael Beasley y Terrence Jones) los Bucks afrontan su cuarto año de la era Antetokounmpo, y el segundo con un equipo asentado. No hay mucho que decir que no se haya dicho. ‘The Greak Freek’ será seguramente MVP con el paso de los años, y tiene un equipo que sabe jugar en torno a él. La batuta de Jason Kidd, base clarividente durante sus años en la liga, se nota en este equipo que en cierto sentido marca la senda de lo que puede ser el futuro del baloncesto: aleros atléticos extremadamente válidos botando el balón, y pívots con un manejo también bueno. En ese último rol, la evolución de Thon Maker puede marcar bien el ritmo de un equipo que, pese a todo, sigue siendo una incóginta. A su lado, el sorprendete rookie del año, el base Malcolm Brogdon, redondea este equipo del nuevo milenio. Aspecto clave: la recuperación rápida y el nivel que pueda dar Jabari Parker, la única pieza que podría faltar a este equipo para ser verdaderamente un actor a tener en cuenta en la liga en los próximos años. Pronóstico: 40-45 victorias La digna clase obrera Charlotte Hornets A partir de los equipos citados el mapa del Este se mueve un nivel muy por debajo al de sus homólogos en el Oeste, pero eso no quita que aparezcan algunos equipos bien interesantes en el horizonte. Charlotte Hornets son unos de ellos. El proyecto pivota una vez más sobre Kemba Walker, al que en esta ocasión Jordan acompaña para este intento de Dwight Howard. Del nivel que pueda dar el que hasta hace no tanto era considerado el mejor pívot de la liga dependerán las opciones de Playoffs del equipo, que este año además con sus camisetas marca Jordan abundan en esa cuidada estética que siempre les ha hecho una franquicia simpática. Aspecto clave: el nivel de Batum, muy bajo el año pasado, y el de MKG, además del del Howard, serán fundamentales para trazar sus espectactivas. Pronóstico: 40 victorias Miami Heat Con Goran Dragic como caballero europeo del año, el equipo dirigido desde los despachos por Pat Riley ha optado por la continuidad ante lo que otros podrían haberse tirado hacia la reconstrucción. Hassan Whiteside, Justice Winslow y la evolución del recién renovado Josh Richarson son los hombres sobre los que parece que el proyecto puede crecer. En la otra cara de la moneda, traspasos como el que ha llevado hasta Florida a Kelly Olynyk o renovaciones como las de Tyler Johnson que ya se dieron el curso pasado no parecen a su favor a priori. Pero Riley y Spoelstra son ganadores, así que algo sabrán. Aspecto clave: la continuidad en sus números de jugadores como Waiters y que el año pasado hicieron estar al equipo por encima del nivel esperado será complicada, pero de eso y la aportación de otros hombres de segunda fila como James Johnson jugando de falso cinco en los descansos de Whiteside dependerá la marcha del equipo, que no obstante no sería difícil que se quedaran fuera de Playoffs. Pronóstico: 40 victorias Philadelphia 76ers: ‘El proceso’ despega Quien vea hoy el roster y la proyección de los Sixers de cara a los próximos años pensará (y con razón) que el despido de Sam Hinkie fue una barbaridad. Sin embargo el ex GM del equipo arrastró a la franquicia a casi un lustro de barro y rondas del Draft. Ya están (por fin) todos sanos. Ben Simmons (número 1 del draft del curso pasado) Markelle Fultz (número 1 del presente) y Joel Embiid (3 del 2014) son argumentos suficientes para pensar que el equipo despegue por fin, aunando un hype que ya se notó el año pasado hasta con gritos de MVP para el camerunés. Qué ganas tenía de ver ALGO la ciudad de Philadelphia. A la ecuación hay que sumar lógicamente a Dario Saric y su gran nivel del curso pasado y JJ Redick, seguramente uno de los veteranos con la cabeza mejor plantada de la liga. Y un artillero nato, claro está. Con ello, cabe esperar todo o nada. Será su primer año juntos y por lo tanto no conviene ser excesivamente optimista, pero parece que tras el prólogo del curso pasado, el baloncesto regresa a los Sixers. Aspecto clave: Obviamente, la salud de sus tres figurines de cristal junto con la aportación de secundarios muy presentes como Covington. Pronóstico: 35- 40 victorias En tierra de nadie Detroit Pistons Avery Bradley por Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Así se podría resumir la agencia libre de estos Pistons que han pasado de pronosticar un ascenso tras su traspaso-robo con Orlando (aquel que les llevó a Tobias Harris) a ser un equipo estancado. El equipo de Stan Van Gundy cambia por lo tanto a KCP por un jugador que se aproxima mucho a lo que podría ser él una vez desarrollado, aunque con menos tiro. En cierto modo, por lo tanto, pierden, a lo que se suma además la marcha de Marcus Morris. Su estancamiento en los últimos cursos sin embargo se debe a otras cuestiones fuera del mercado, y tiene que ver mucho también con el escaso desarrollo durante los últimos dos años de Andre Drummond y las recurrentes lesiones de un Reggie Jackson que en su momento también enamoró a la liga. Aspecto clave: más allá del rendimiento de sus puntales, lo que pueda aportar el rookie Luke Kennard, el principal francotirador del pasado Draft, será importante en su ecuación. Pronóstico: 35-40 victorias Indiana Pacers Larry Bird dejó de ser el Presidente de los Pacers y en cierto modo parece que todo ha ido a peor, esté relacionado o no. Más allá de la salida de Paul George -que lógicamente lo cambia todo- los Pacers parecen haber cambiado desarrollo por corazón. O eso es lo que les queda. Ver a Oladipo -estrella universitaria de los Hoosiers- y Lance Stephenson de vuelta a Indiana es un añadido para sus seguidores, pero solo es eso. Sin Jeff Teague y con la batuta de base entregada a Darren Collison y Cory Joseph el equipo comienza un interludio que no se sabe muy bien cómo acabará. Solo Myles Turner pone un poco de luz en esto. Aspecto clave: Que Lance Stephenson sea tomado por el espíritu de Oscar Robertson, como ocurrió hace tres años. Pero ahora que en vez de durar unos pocos meses que lo haga durante toda la campaña. Pronóstico: 30-35 victorias Brooklyn Nets Y llegaron movimientos al otro equipo de Nueva York. Alejado ya de cualquier ínfula de super equipo, la llegada de D’Angelo Russell, Mozgov, DeMarre Carroll y Allen Crabbe promete subir algo el nivel, aunque sea a costa de bloquear su margen salarial por jugadores que sus equipos no querían. La baja de Brook López, que ha puesto rumbo a Lakers, llegaría tarde o temprano, y en cierto modo no parece que haya salido mal. No serán tan malos como el curso pasado, pero no serán nada este curso, y quién sabe que les depara el horizonte sin rondas del Draft y poco que ofrecer. Aspecto clave: la salud de Jeremy Lin Pronóstico: 30-35 victorias Orlando Magic Por Orlando han sumado a Jonathon Simmons, un buen fichaje pero que en el engranaje del equipo no parece aportar más que una nueva suma a ese monstruo de roster sin ningún equilibrio que parecen querer armar por Florida. Jonathan Isaac, el rookie, si Vucevic está muy inspirado, si el francés Fournier sigue tirándose todo y entrando buena parte de sus tiros, y sobre todo la evolución de Aaron Gordon dirigen las esperanzas de un equipo que lleva demasiados años a la deriva. Aspecto clave: algún traspaso que pueda cambiar algo el rumbo, aunque tienen poco que ofrecer Pronóstico: 30 victorias Reconstruyendo que es gerundio Atlanta Hawks Parece mentira cómo en tres años Atlanta ha pasado de tener 4 jugadores en el All Star a la nada. La marcha de Millsap pone el punto final a esta era, y la de Howard a las intenciones continuistas que alguna vez tuvieron. Solo Dennis Schröder, la evolución de Taurean Prince o el recién llegado Dewayne Dedmon y el rookie John Collins ponen algo de futuro en esta franquicia que apartó a Budenholzer de los despachos para tenerlo solo como entrenador. Aspecto clave: la evolución de Taurean Prince con un recorrido de dos años puede dar buenos réditos al equipo. Solo eso, no hay más. Pronóstico: 25-30 victorias New York Knicks La era Carmelo ha acabado. Y la era Phil Jackson. Y la era de esperar algo de un equipo que acababa dando nada. El traspaso del jugador a OKC a cambio de prácticamente nada supone un reseteo para un equipo que lleva demasiado tiempo sin rumbo. Lo malo, que fue Jackson quien eligió al base Ntilikina en el Draft, seguramente una mala elección para cimentar una reconstrucción ya que parece más bien encaminado a ser un jugador de rol. Otro bombazo en la NBA: Carmelo Anthony traspasado a los Thunder Lo bueno, que Kristaps Porzingis tiene todo el margen para crecer junto con Willy Hernangómez. De hecho, en ese sentido, la sanción por dopaje de Joakim Noah ayuda a que los jóvenes, y solo los jóvenes con la ayuda de Kanter, tengan cabida en el conjunto de Jeff Hornacek, ahora bajo la batuta en los despachos del nuevo GM Scott Perry. Si Michael Beasley vuelve centrado, como parece, también va a ser entretenido de ver, además de observar si Doug McDermott, hasta ahora sin suerte en la liga, consigue consolidarse. La línea del tiempo con todos los desastres de Phil Jackson en los Knicks Aspecto clave: han realizado la apuesta por la vuelta a casa de Tim Hardaway Jr. como anotador. No parece la mejor opción, pero si sale bien, el Madison, muy dado a nuevos ídolos, ya tendrá uno. Pronóstico: 20-25 victorias Chicago Bulls Tras unos años en los que Chicago tonteó con volver a la élite (y lo consiguió), la salida de Jimmy Butler rompe por completo cualquier trazo en la marcha de la franquicia. A cambio recibieron a Kris Dunn, uno de los proyectos del pasado Draft menos consolidados, y Zach LaVine, un portento que tendrá margen para crecer hasta cotas insospechadas pero que primero tiene que recuperarse de su grave lesión. En este contexto de ruina, la aportación del rookie Lauri Markkanen tras su genial Eurobasket y ver cómo se conjuga su rotación con Mirotic y Bobby Portis dirá mucho. La mala suerte de Chicago ha querido que incluso en la posición de 4, donde más talento acumulan, vayan a tener problemas para repartir minutos. Aspecto clave: paciencia, paciencia, y que la lesión de LaVine se salde bien.

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