#16barbookreport

#SpoofSchool presents the #16BarBookReport of #MilesMoralesSpiderMan by @jasonreynolds83 ! Instrumental: "Nas Is Like" by @Nas , produced by @DJPremier Lyrics: Miles is like . . . Son of Rio and Jefferson, Aaron's nephew and / I was born the same time Aaron was killed— a beginning and end / When I'm in stealth mode, arachnophobia is engrained / In every criminal from Red Hook to Rockaway / First it was Peter, but after he vanished / Now Spider-Man is Miles Morales; the black and Hispanic child arachnid / Spent time feeling shame for the crime of my name / Now I fight crime as I swing from a line of webbing / While my best friend Ganke's writing Korean poetry / I'm in the back of class wishing Alicia would notice me / But Chamberlain, the history instructor / Is a shady cat, a racist-assed Confederate celebrant mother . . . / Now I'm suspended from school and my parents are broke / Should I quit being Spider-Man to help with my folks? / Conspiratorial designs from Ku Klux minds / Could make Brownsville and Charlottesville two of a kind / This brother Jason's given us an amazing / Tale linking webslinging with the Black Lives Matter generation / And through the villain, the President's presence is felt / But M-I-L-E-S are the letters that spell (Miles, Miles, Miles) P.S. Before I'm inundated by fact-checking fans, I know that Miles wasn't literally born when his uncle Aaron (aka "Prowler") died. What I meant was that Miles' resolve to fight crime as Spider-Man was "born" in a sense when he stood up to his uncle, who died trying to kill him. #marvel #milesmorales #spiderman #makeminemarvel Spider-Man jacket (mine, not the novel's) designed by @djoneluv . Spider-Man pillow and blanket crocheted with love by @lunathepoet . (at Brooklyn, New York)

#SpoofSchool presents the #16BarBookReport of #Dollbaby by #LauraLaneMcNeal @llmcneal Music: "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues What if the story The Help was written New Orleans? / Well, I never read The Help, but I've lived in New Orleans / And through Queenie and Fannie, Vidrine and Ibby and Doll and them / Ms. McNeal has dipped us in 60's New Orleans / The racial tensions, integration sit-ins / And Ibby, the fish out of water, learning to swim in / Ms. Fannie's sea of secrets; generations deep with / A twist at the end which Ibby couldn't foresee, kid; / Must admit I liked the story better than the storytelling / It was never boring, rather quite compelling / But I kinda sorta found Laura short on metaphorical connections / Showing versus telling, but you know / Not every pen produces Proustian prose / As far as debuts go / Laissez les bontemps roll; I bid you adieu: opposite of bonjour . . (at New Orleans, Louisiana)

My 3rd #SpoofSchool #16BarBookReport reviewed #Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal @llmcneal . Check it out in the next post! #16barbookreports (at New Orleans, Louisiana)

Reposting all of my #16barbookreports in anticipation of my 5th and favorite. My next post will be my 2nd #SpoofSchool #16BarBookReport of #MindOfMyMind by #octaviabutler . Y'all ready? 3, 2, 1 . . @octaviabutlerbookclub 

Reposting all of my #16barbookreports in anticipation of my 5th and favorite. My first one was for #Mastery by @robertgreeneofficial using the instrumental for "Wu-Renegades" by Killarmy. Hear/see it in the next post. #16barbookreport

My next #16BarBookReport reviews #Dollbaby by #lauralanemcneal . Click the next post to see/hear. Enjoy! #SpoofSchool #16BarBookReports (at Brookland)