#1 Olympia Vernon's Logic

Olympia Vernon's Logic  This year Olympia Vernon made the top list again with her second novel, Logic. Why? The words are magnetic, moving, supernatural, each word means more than I can express. Read this book. The others. 2.Camilia's Roses by Bernice McFadden- My favorite lines. "Hope was everywhere in that small place few had heard of; resting...

#10. The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat...Counting Down

Dew Breaker  Edwidge Dantica's makes the top ten with the Dew Breaker: From the Book Jacket: From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his...

Reverend Reggie White Goes Home

Reggie White  I am too choked up about Reggie White's passing to write a long diatribe, so I am linking a few nice tribute sites. Reggie I love you. You're an angel. Links Reggie White Minister of Defense Green Bay Packers Minister Reggie Wh...

I've Had A Change of Heart...Counting Down the Best Black Books 2004

This week I received an early Christmas gift. Someone is actually reading my blog as I countdown the best and the worst books of the year. I had been thinking about this subject a few days before I received this comment that I will post after weeding through the stack of books that I have read and reviewed this year by Black authors. So I will give a Christmas gift to the authors on my list. I will not countdown the worst...I will highlight...

Counting Down the Best Black Books of 2004

Before I can produce a top ten I need to list the 50 Black books that I read this year. This compiliation does not include every book written by an African American author, but is a list of the books I have reviewed this year that were written by African American authors. If you would like your book on the 2005 list see my website and my book review submission guidelines. The List- 2004 A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed A...

Finally a Black Literary Journal!

Last month I received a nice letter from Jasai Madden, editor of Lorraine and James literary journal and a fan of my Suite 101 Channel African American Women Writers Finding Voice. And I jumped at this opportunity, because we do need more black literary journals and preferably ones not sponsored by Universtity Press. Kudos! Here's Plug #1, Jasai ****************************** Dear Dee, My name is Jasai Madden and I am the editor of...

Santa Claus does exist and he resides in North Georgia

I am a Christian and I am very proud of my faith. A long time ago before I joined my faith I had given up on Santa Claus. To be honest, I was twelve and I didn't my New Edition cassette until after Christmas, which confirmed my waning faith in the jolly old elf. Anyway...This past week I'm walking around in my neighborhood Publix Supermarket searching for food samples to snack on and some cheap, yet fluffy toilet paper and I walk by this...