Status Updates From Ring Shout

i’m so freaking excited abt this book

OMG!!!!

That light ain't nothing they can stop. It ain't nothing they can endure. This the Truth I know. And no Lie can stand against it.

For a moment it seems the two are battling: my songs and his uneven chorus. But it was never a real fight. What I have is beautiful music inspired by struggle and fierce love. What he got ain't nothing but hateful noise.

HELL YEAH NIGHT DOCTORS!!

"What difference then if we make a pact with some other monsters? What we owe this world that so despise and brutalizes us? Why lift a hand to save it when it ain't never done a damn thing to save us?"

Reading this as a Black women is so rough because this is set in 1922 and things in 2026 are similar to this. too similar

"You never asked what choice I made about this offer"

"Gotta trust the soldier next to you will do the right thing. No use worrying about it."

I LOVE Charyse(Chef + Maryse) my girls

They are going up the mountaintop and the Klu Kluxes are there

"They like the places where we hurt. They use it against us."

"The wound I made of her is still there, but it don't pulse raw like it used to. It's mending too, even if it might never fully heal."
This is THE quote about grief

"When God call out, Adam don't answer. So, He get to asking Eve..."