My goal is to read 250 books as part of the Goodreads challenge for 2019. I recently completed Book #3 of 250 books in 2019! I found this little book called Things Are Good Now, released last year by Djamila Ibrahim. She is an Ethiopian-born writer who moved to Canada in 1990. This book is
We have an exciting reading list for 2019! From black science fiction, to historical dramas to biographies, we have books of all genres and styles to interest various readers. We look forward to you attending our book club meetings and social event sin 2019! January Washington Black – Esi Edugyan February Becoming – Michelle Obama
Black Women Connect! Book Club January 2019 Meeting will be held on January 25th at 7:00 PM. 791 St Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario. January book: Washington Black by Esi Eduygyan About the book: Booker Prize Carnegie Medal Finalist Giller Prize, Canada Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize About the Book A dazzling, original novel
The Black Women Connect Book Club October Book Selection is: Brother by David Chariandy An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991. With shimmering
Black Women Book Club pick for September is Small Island. Small Island is an international bestseller. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. It has now been adapted for the
Good evening! I created an event in our group to attend the talk by Tayari Jones on An American Marriage at the Toronto Reference Library. I will update closer to date when tickets are released. Members of our group have attended these talks before, notably Marlon James, Dionne Brandt, David Chariandy etc… Fabulous experience. Having
Black Women Connect Book Club meetings take place the last Friday of each month. At our August 30th, 2018 Book club meeting we will discuss: An American Marriage – Tayari Jones “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” –The New York Times Book Review “Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” –USA Today “A tense and
Last night memers of the Black Women Connect Book Club attended a wonderful talk at Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Libary featuring Marlon James and David Chariandy. Both men were articulate in their own unique way and provided great insights into their writing stye, issues of the day around race and also some
Welcome to Spring and to our March Newsletter! During Women’s History Month, it is great to read our March book Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice for Fiction. “I like to think I know what death is,” Ward begins in Sing, Unburied, Sing. “I like to think it’s something I
Black Women Connect Book Club Selection for January is Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin. Go Tell It on the Mountain is James Baldwin’s first and to some critics his greatest novel. Like much of Baldwin’s writing, it draws heavily on his own intense childhood experiences with religious doubt, racism, sexual ambivalence, and a