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“First, there was trust. Then, there was betrayal. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot be betrayed by someone you do not trust ... what you have learned is the same heart-wrenching journey of every woman to whom I have sold a poison. And it is, indeed, the same path for me.”
― The Lost Apothecary
― The Lost Apothecary
“I am beginning to learn that life-altering news is often like a premature birth: ill-timed, catching someone unaware, emotionally unprepared & often where they shouldn’t be:”
― Clap When You Land
― Clap When You Land
“Living in a female body, a Black body, an aging body, a fat body, a body with mental illness is to awaken daily to a planet that expects a certain set of apologies to already live on our tongues. There is a level of “not enough” or “too much” sewn into these strands of difference.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― The Poet X
― The Poet X
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Mocha Girls Read
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Blackoween™ Readathon
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This a group that happens once a year in October. Together we books written by Black Authors who write crime fiction.
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A place to help authors and reviewers come together to get the word out about new books as well as a group for anyone to post or enter listings for bo ...more
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We're reading the Zambian novel, The Old Drift throughout the month of July. ...more
Bobbie’s 2025 Year in Books
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