“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around in our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before it’s season.” ⭐️The Mothers by Brit Bennett ⭐️ Book 1 for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge done!! Whew!! So so good!! A book that centers friendship between women. ✅ In this case two motherless teenage girls who form a deep connection and together work through their wounds of loss & loneliness. It was sad, excellent, beautifully written and hella relatable. LOVED it ⭐️👌🏾💕

So far I’m enjoying my first book of the year, Both a coming of age story and a love story of two young women living in Nigeria. “Under the Udala Trees” written by award winning Nigerian author Chinelo Okparanta. 👌🏾👌🏾

#CurrentlyReading There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker 📖✨ #tfbwlreadingchallenge - a book with a name in the title. So happy to add this to my growing collection of poetry by Black Women. Complex and wonderful. 💜✨ . . . . . #thatishoneyjackinmyteacup #dontjudgeme #bookstagram #bookworm #bookstagrammer #bookshelf #tfbwl2018 #booklist #morganparker #therearemorebeautifulthingsthanbeyonce #readingchallenge #goodblackreads #poetry

On the train heading up to Harlem reading the award winning play “Ruined” by the brilliant Lynn Nottage. My book 4 for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge - - - > A rainforest bar and brother in the brutally war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo is the setting for this much honored and acclaimed play. The establishment’s shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi both protects and profits from the women whose bodies have become battlegrounds between the government soldiers and rebel forces alike, Ruined was developed through the authors pilgrimage to Africa where she had countless interviews and interactions which resulted in this explosive portrait, winner of best play in 2009, the OBIE award, Drama Desk Award, the Pulitzer Prize and others.