#ReadSoulLit

[sistahscifi]

Loved these signed paperback editions of Wake. Each copy comes with a QR code to a complimentary audiodrama adaption of the book! We are in stock! Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com. Reposted from @wilsonmoralesfilm Check out audiodrama adaption of Wake by Dr. Rebecca Hall and written by Tyler English-Beckwith @tyleronline Starring DeWanda Wise @dewandawise, WAKE is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the powerful story of women-led slave revolts, and chronicles scholar Dr. Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Originally published as part graphic novel and part memoir, Podium Audio (@podiumaudio) acquired the exclusive global audio rights to WAKE, the graphic novel named one of the Best Books of 2021 by NPR (@npr). Over the last year, Podium Audio has developed this work into a feature-length audio play in partnership with critically acclaimed playwright and television writer Tyler English-Beckwith. Full cast includes DeWanda Wise, Chanté Adams (@chante_adams), Jerrie Johnson (@TheJerrieJohnson), Fọlákẹ́ Olówófôyekù (@thefolake), Katherine McNamara (@Kat.McNamara), Bahni Turpin (@prospertunia), Rhian Rees, Karen Malina White, Román Zaragoza (@RománZaragoza), Alex Ubokudom (@AlexUbokudom), John Clarence Stewart, Blake Cooper Griffin, Tim DeKay, Kate Steele, André Sogliuzzo and Matthew Wolf. Original music composed by Jace Clayton (AKA DJ / Rupture @DJRupture) Reposted from @comfycozyup Day 4 #readsoullit unexpected fave #wake surprise me last year. This was an amazing graphic Novel #bookstagram #BlackAugust #graphicnovel #history #nonfiction #reading #WakeGraphicNovel #RebeccaHall #sistahscifi @wakecomicbook @simonandschuster (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg8DlSPpPpc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[weirdmarginalia]

My #weekend read

[jmberryfictionwriter]

This is persistence paying. Submittable bears witness. I have sat with this piece for better than two years: noodling, reworking, revising, resubmitting. The story went live today as a finalist in the @solsticelitmag annual fiction contest. It is the closest thing to home I have written. It takes me back to a particular time of innocence, filled with hope — a thing I find especially lacking in these troubled times.  https://solsticelitmag.org/content/weeks-away/ Or navigate to SHORT STORIES at link in bio 👆🏾.  (Side note: the woman in the last couple of photos, screaming her head off on the back of the motorcycle. Yeah, that would be my mother 😏💕.) ___________________________________________ "Chris had never encountered a girl anywhere close to him in skin tone who had freckles–a speckled hen's egg, brown like his mother ultimately meant when she sent him to pick up a carton from Central Supermarket, a scattering of tiny flecks colored a shade browner still decorating the crowned tip of each eggshell. Could it be that he too has freckles, buried inside the depth of his dark-roast complexion? The freckles alone cemented a deep-seated infatuation." #litmag #literarycontest #weeksaway #amwriting  ___________________________________________ #booktube #booktastic #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #bibliophile #goodreads #booknerdigans #readsoullit #blackwriters #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚 (at Groton Skatepark) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEMurjCgmvz/?igshid=bzg6wbjijhyg

[fabulizemag]

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Hey. Are you interested in an afrofuturism bookclub? ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #igreads #octaviasbrood #blackwriters #afrofuturismo #blackmenread #blackauthors #sciencefiction #readsoullit #diversespines #tonimorrison #bibliophile #readblackauthors #blackgirlmagic #octaviaebutler #bookstagram #blackbookclub #blackgirlsread #bookstagrammer #zoranealehurston #blackbookworm #blackwomenauthors #afrofuturism #bookworm #blacklit #parableofthesower #diversereads #reading #blackliterature #wellreadblackgirl #blackgirlsreadtoo (at Harlem, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDOqEXmpLV8/?igshid=1ufuoiqrtn4y0

[agentrosehq]

You have no idea how much I slaved over this chapter...let me know if it was worth it, because Chapter 2 is out now! Read my Secret Service story, ANGEL IN BONDAGE, in my bio. Support @agentrosehq’s art and AiB on Patreon.com/AgentRoseHQ and get monthly rewards! 🌹 Link in bio. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ch 2 - UNFORGIVABLE: A medic meets his fated messenger! With British intelligence at his doorstep, he can finally put his plan into action. Yiuna must save people from the launch of a new virus, but the medic is saving her? Is either person who they seem to be? Examine me. They see through each other’s lies, yet keep pretending. An agent falls in love with the very man she is spying on. With this, an angel closes her heart off… ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lightnovel #quickread #lightnovels#agentrose #animestyleart #angelinbondage #animeguys #animeguy #writersofig #storyart #romancereads #amreading #secretservice #illustragram #readsoullit #currentlyreading https://www.instagram.com/p/BtvAcvylUfN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=45o1fukc8ws8

[gothicvamperstein]

My fairly small February TBR pile. . . . #readsoullit #readsoullitphotochallenge #tbrbooks #tbrstack #tbrpile #blackauthors #blackliterature #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookworm #bookdragon #igbooks #ilovebooks #ilovereading #booksandplants #booksandflowers #booksaremagic #readingissexy https://www.instagram.com/p/CZcRW2HAFpB/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nakeshabrownreads]

Up next. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[paramore-rk-life]

✨NEW POST on the blog ✨ DISCUSSION: My picks for #readsoullit and why I don’t read that much of black literature. I’m trying to expand my reading tastes, so I thought this prompt would be a good guide. What is your least read book genre? —— #ontheblog #discussion #reading #amreading #blackliterature #diversereads #slavery #feminism #soulfood #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #bookseries #bookblogger

[poetrybooksya]

DISCUSSION: New #ReadSoulLit Picks | Why I Don't Read Much Black Literature

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I'll admit that I don't read a lot of black literature, and as a young, black woman of color who wants to expand my reading tastes, I needed an outlet to help guide me. I grew up reading books that had predominantly straight white characters, with easygoing plotlines, characters that didn't really go anywhere. But I never questioned my reading because just the fact that I was reading whatever I wanted stood above me reading about white characters.

With that being said, I still read books with primarily white storylines. But then, this tag on social media called #ReadSoulLit captured my eye to see about opening my reading tastes to include black reads. Created by Didi Borie of Brown Girl Reading, she made this tag event to promote black contemporary writers of color during Black History Month in February 2015. Even though it's clearly not February today, I still wanted to share my appreciation for celebrating underrated writers and stories of color. 

From Didi's interview with folkloreandliteracy:

Ideally I’d love it if publishers expressed a desire to sponsor #ReadSoulLit.  I think this would allow them to see that there are more people out here than they think who are prepared to support black authors.  I hope that publishers will try to collaborate more often with black literary influencers like myself to promote all books in general. Publishers need to see that we are here, enjoy reading, and we’re talking about what we like and what we don’t like in books.

Homegoing by Ya'a Gyasi -  Synopsis: Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.  One of my Current Reads, this story revolves around family and how a long family line also means many secrets. I've been reading this slowly since last year, and it's very fascinating. Following every slave's story from beginning to end, even some of the slave owners, is something you really have to pay attention to, which is why I haven't finished it yet.  The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison -  Synopsis: The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways. What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. This sounds so sad and heartbreaking and I'm so here for it! Plus, I don't get to read from a child's point of view too often because of their immaturity and naivety. However, with this book, I'm able to make an exception.  

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison -  Synopsis: Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women. This reminds me of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, not the police brutality against black people, but more how the main female black character, Starr, has a white boyfriend, Chris. Starr doesn't know how to navigate herself properly because on one hand, she's known in one way at home. On another hand, she's known for trying to be this conservative girl who's attracted to someone of a different race. Chris doesn't understand her points of view when it comes to hardships as a black woman in America, but he wants to at least try because he loves her. That's what I hope Tar Baby will represent; I'm all for supporting interracial relationships and love, but if Jadine's boyfriend shows more ignorance than compassion, then we're going to have a problem. But, I am still hopeful for a good read.  The Mothers by Brit Bennett -  Synopsis: It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. At first, I wasn't going to pick this up because while I don't hate love triangles, I've outgrown them a bit. Everytime they're used as a plot device in a story, they turn into something corny or unrelatable. But with this one, I think it could be promising. 

The Nix by Nathan Hill -  Synopsis: Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of an online video game. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, since she walked out when he was a child. But then one day there she is, all over the news, throwing rocks at a presidential candidate. The media paints Faye as a militant radical with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother never left her small Iowa town. Which version of his mother is the true one? Determined to solve the puzzle--and finally have something to deliver to his publisher--Samuel decides to capitalize on his mother's new fame by writing a tell-all biography, a book that will savage her intimately, publicly. But first, he has to locate her; and second, to talk to her without bursting into tears. I've read orphan/founding family stories before, but they were mostly of fantasy genres. So seeing this new one come from a historical drama or fictional background piqued my interest. Hope I like it!  What are some of your favorite new #ReadSoulLit picks? Comment below!

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[sistahscifi]

What she said!!! Erika is 100% right regarding more Black Fantasy!! You will be about to purchase on our @facebookapp , @instagram, @shop, @pinterest , @tiktok and @shopify stores. Or better yet, check.it out from your local #library!! Reposted from @fabulizemag I know, it's been a minute. But I've been doing some things but I'll be back soon, I promise! I just wanted to drop by and say thanks to @delacortepress for sending me a copy of The Gilded Ones #2: The Merciless Ones Book by Namina Forna. I'm excited about the follow-up to book one. Plus, we always need more Black fantasy and magic for young and adult readers! #blackgirlmagic #blackbooks #blackbookstagram #goodblackreads #blackgirlsreadbookstoo #blackfantasy #sistahscifi #TheMercilessOnes #NaminaForna #blackfantasyauthors #blackfantasybooks #blackbooktok #thegildedones #readsoullit #readblackbooks #readblackauthors #MySuperheroesAreBlack #bookrecommendations #bookmail #bookshelfies #bookclubofinstagram #bookcovers #bookish #blackscifi #blackbookworm #bookrecommendations https://www.instagram.com/p/Cds_oUrLb4R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[softdecay]

Switching between these four awesome books this weekend: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison for #ReadSoulLit, a buddy read of Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi for my offline book club, and Animal Intelligence by Virginia Morell. #reading #books #bookstagram #booklover #booklover #bookaddict

[jmberryfictionwriter]

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I got on yesterday @busboysandpoets open mic night. Read a little something set in a spoken word café. No, I don't do poetry but some of the characters I write do. (Does that mean I write poetry too 🤔?) Take a look at their live story if you want to hear more. #caronapocalypse #amwriting #openmic ___________________________________________ #booktube #booktastic #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #bibliophile #goodreads #booknerdigans #readsoullit #blackwriters #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-w9LFngwbk/?igshid=mroge95wnt5z

[fabulizemag]

It's gloomy here in NJ. And since my daughter wanted to have tea this afternoon, I thought it'd be a great time to finish this beautiful fantasy, "When We Were Birds" by @ayalloydbanwo from @doubledaybooks. This Trinidad-based fantasy about love and death has had me in a grip and finally I'll get the opportunity to finish it. #blackspeculativefiction #blackfantasy #caribbeanbooks #bookstagram #booksandtea #blackbooks #caribbeanfantasy #goodblackreads #blacklitchallenge #blackdiaspora #diversespines #wellreadblackgirl #blackgirlsreadtoo #fantasybooks #literature #bookstagram #currentlyreading #readsoullit #rastafari #rasta #afternoontea #tealatte #readcaribbean #readblackwomen #readblackbooks #bookstagramfeature https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd9LQnJva8q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[blackgirlslit]

Day 15 of #forcoloredgirlsbookclub . . 🍁Contemporary Classic . . This novel is heralded as essential reading for all black girls and a book that I consider a stable among African-American literature (and it was also featured as one of the "100 Must-Read Modern Classics" by @bookriot). And I know, I know, shame on me for never having read any novels by the late great Maya Angelou, but of course I have read several of her poems and know just how amazing a writer she was and how her powerful words and vibrant spirit touched the lives of many. As one of her most famous books, I will be reading this one by her first and foremost. . This photo also features the new Maya keychain & pin from @coloringpins! - Veronika . . #modveronika #books #bookstagram #mayaangelou #iknowhythecagedbirdsings #forcoloredgirlsbookclub #readsoullit #blackgirlmagic https://www.instagram.com/p/BpewpE3HSeq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wfwbxumd3q6r

[agentrosehq]

Chapter 2 is out! Experience Her Majesty's Secret Service - ANGEL IN BONDAGE © [AiB] story link in bio! Support @agentrosehq’s art and AiB on Patreon.com/AgentRoseHQ and get monthly rewards! 🌹 Link in bio. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ch 2 - UNFORGIVABLE: A medic meets his fated messenger! With British intelligence at his doorstep, he can finally put his plan into action. Yiuna must save people from the launch of a new virus, but the medic is saving her? Is either person who they seem to be? Examine me. They see through each other’s lies, yet keep pretending. An agent falls in love with the very man she is spying on. With this, an angel closes her heart off… ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lightnovel #quickread #lightnovels#agentrose #animestyleart #angelinbondage #animeguys #animeguy #writersofig #storyart #romancereads #amreading #secretservice #illustragram #readsoullit #currentlyreading https://www.instagram.com/p/BtrI2yugyRB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v8l8lx7fogg

[booksovertv]

I’m so excited to finally have in my possession and personal library Confused Spice by Mr. Mathis Bailey. I’m like the last person to read his first published book. The reviews from book friends and the book community have been fantastic with high praise. Mathis I’m late, but ready to dive in. Again, the pride I felt for you and feel now having your book baby in my hands is extreme. I won’t forget to purchase your second novel Brown Sugar & Spice. The second photo is of the back cover including synopsis. #bookstagram #newbook #blackbook #confusedspice #mathisbailey #readsoullit #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqbooks #blackmenread #blackauthors #blackmaleauthors #blackwriters #librarian #blacklibrarians https://www.instagram.com/p/CECgbLwgo6p/?igshid=1h6e458x0kuex