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A time was had yesterday I want to thank everyone for coming out. Thank you @blakkoffeecafe for having us and thank you @booknerdfam for making my vision real. #letsputsomepagesbehindus #africanamericanreadin

✨✨ Book Tour ✨✨ Thank you, Partner @cocoachapters @marinerbooks Title: Medgar and Merle Author: Joy-Ann Reid Genre: Non-Fiction Pub Date: February 6,2024 Synopsis: The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of Civil Rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers’s assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history. With the blessing and participation of the Evers family, Reid offers the most detailed portrait to date of two lesser known, but profoundly important, figures of the civil rights movement—shedding new light on their inspiring love story and their crucial work in winning basic rights for Black Americans. Soon after the Evers married, Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with countering resistance to Black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar’s secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against their state’s segregation in public accommodations and schools, lynchings, and violence. On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers became the highest profile victim of Klan-related assassination of a Black civil rights leader at that time, gunned down in the couple’s driveway in Jackson. In the wake of Medgar’s tragic death, Myrlie carried on their civil rights legacy, writing a book about Medgar’s fight, running for a congressional seat, and becoming a leader of the NAACP in her own right. Reid writes, “Medgar’s activism, from his role in investigating the Emmett Till lynching and other racist murders of Black Mississippians to the boycott movement he orchestrated in Jackson, was the foundation on which the later efforts by SNCC, CORE, and other organizations were built.” In sharing the Evers’s love story and crucial work, Reid covers critical and still timely themes of racial violence and injustice, activism and voting rights, and highlights acts of bravery and personal sacrifice. #cocoachapters #cocoasippers #medgarandmyrlie #medgarevers #joyannreid #marinerbooks

You never know what will happen when sleep won’t come visit me. 😂😂😂

I finished my first sock 😆 I’ve learned a lot and I know what I need to do next time. It fits but I wish it fit better. The question is, will this sock get a mate? Maybe but not right now. The yarn used was @maps.yarn Swan Lake and Red Hot. The pattern came from @earthtonesgirl No Fear Sock Knitting. #knitting #sockknitting

😽📚 Pub Day Post 📚😽 A Parade Of Horribles Book 8 of The Dungeon Crawler Carl Series by Matt Dinniman I’m on book 6, but I couldn’t let this day go by without getting book 8. I didn’t know that I would like LitRPG this much. #letsputsomepagesbehindus #blackgirlsreadlitrpg #letsread #takealookitsinabook #dungeoncrawlercarl

📚📚 Book Tour 📚📚 Thank you, Partner @bibliolifestyle @w.w.norton Title: ONE LEG ON EARTH Author: ’Pemi Aguda Genre: Literary Fiction Pub Date: 5/5/2026 SYNOPSIS: From the author of the National Book Award finalist Ghostroots, a debut novel that thrills with its eerie mix of folklore and history. Something is haunting the pregnant women of Lagos. Across the city, they are walking into water . . . and drowning. Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the ultra-luxury development her company is building, a symbol of the dawn of a brighter Lagos. But Yosoye’s idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naive, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, and as construction speeds ahead, stories of strange deaths in the city’s open waters reach a fever pitch. And then, after a chance encounter, Yosoye discovers she is pregnant . . . a revelation which puts her on a collision course with an inexplicable force that is as seductive as it is deadly. A masterwork by a writer hailed as “an astonishing talent” (Lauren Groff), One Leg on Earth is an ambitious novel like no other: a coming-of-age story, an uncanny exploration of motherhood, and a chilling vision of the dark side of progress. #literaryfiction #letsputsomepagesbehindus #takealookitsinabook

Pub Day Vibes The Last Contract Of Isako Synopsis: A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic from the author of the modern fantasy classic Jade City. LIVE BY THE CODE. DIE BY THE KNIFE. Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend must come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow—to walk out into the frozen wasteland of their planet with her head held high and her family enriched by her death. But when she’s offered a final mission, she can’t refuse, especially when she realizes who lies at the center of it all: Martim, her last—and worst—apprentice, who’s somehow made his way to the top. As she’s thrust into a world of corporate espionage and shadowy secrets, what she uncovers could forever change humanity’s existence among the stars. The Last Contract of Isako is epic science fiction like only Fonda Lee can write it—set in a world where money trumps loyalty, the elite have the power to extend life or end it, and one woman in the twilight of her calling must decide what’s ultimately worth living—or dying—for. #letsputsomepagesbehindus #takealookitsinabook #bookinfluencer #thelastcontractofisako #fondalee

Well I just added this one to list of books I started so far this month. Let’s see how this plays out for Couri and August. ☺️ And Then Life Was Beautiful by @_ayemoniquewrites Synopsis: Couri Mitchell August Hanson was the silent type, the kind who spoke through his actions and not his words. He possessed enough power to make me feel safe and secure. I was ready to open up and share the parts of myself I’d never shared with another, and then I got hit with a truth that changed everything. There was a slight chance he’d still want me, only he had to accept our baby, too. August Hanson Couri Mitchell was my type, the kind you married the first chance you got. She possessed enough power to silence the chaos around me. I was ready to grab ahold of her and never let go, and then I got hit with a truth that changed everything. There was a slight chance she’d still want me, only she had to accept my daughter, too. #letsputsomepagesbehindus #andthenitwasbeautiful #asiamonique #letsread

🔪🔪 Book Tour 🔪🔪 Thank you, Partner @bibliolifestyle @harperperennial    Title: Mrs. Shim Is A Killer Author: Kang Jiyoung SYNOPSIS: 
When a middle-aged widowed loses her job at the butcher shop, she’s at a loss as to how to provide for her family—until she’s offered a position that puts her carving skills to new uses in this darkly humorous bestselling Korean thriller. Mrs. Shim needs money. She’s lost her husband and her job, and she’s got three mouths to feed at her kitchen table. If she doesn’t find work soon, she and her children are going to lose their home. So when she answers a vague job ad for the Smile Detective Agency, Mrs. Shim expects the job will be some kind of cleaning position. But when they only ask her questions about her experience as a butcher and what she can do with a cleaver, she begins to realize they want her to do a very different kind of cleaning—they want her to be an assassin. Too scared not to take them up on their offer, she agrees to the position. And Mrs. Shim soon finds that her new job isn’t so different from her old one in the butcher shop, quickly becoming the agency’s best contract killer—but her rise to the top hasn’t gone unnoticed. Jealous of her talents, her agency’s competitors—and even her own colleagues— begin pointing fingers (and knives) in her direction. If she wants to keep her job, her family, and her reputation intact, Mrs. Shim is going to have to take out the secretive leader of a rival agency. But when she has the chance to strike, she’s stunned to find a familiar face at the end of her blade. As it turns out, this just may be one mess she can’t cut her way out of . . . #thiller #letsputsomepagesbehindus #letsread #letsreadtogether

April was a great reading month. My faves this month: 💚Big Girl Blitz 💚Heart Of A Goon 💚Sisters With A Side Of Greens (Bookclub Read) #letsputsomepagesbehindus #takealookitsinabook #iloveblackbooks #bookinfluencer #readingmatters

I’m currently reading Sisters With A Side Of Greens by @stimpson.michelle this was our bookclub pick this month. I’m loving it. 🥰 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Synopsis: Sisters Rose Tillman and Marvina Nash haven’t spoken in decades—not since Rose sent Marvina $40 to register their business and Marvina spent it on something else. Rose begins a long career at the post office and Marvina spends her weekends cooking chicken dinners for the church fundraiser. Marvina never leaves the canister of their mama’s special spice mix in the church kitchen, and she shares the recipe with no one. Rose never forgave Marvina for that $40 betrayal, but when she retires, she’s still dreaming of opening a restaurant with her sister, using mama’s secret spice mix to make their fortune in fried chicken and Southern comfort food. To her horror, Rose realizes she’s forgotten the spice mix recipe. There’s nothing to do but get in her car to drive the two hours to Marvina’s house back in Fork City, Texas. Marvina’s determined never to speak to Rose again, but figures she’ll meet her on the doorstep to hear what she has to say, before closing the door in her face. Of course, that’s not what happens next, as the sisters find a way to turn their mama’s legacy into a bright new future for their whole community. #letsputsomepagesbehindus #sisterswithasideofgreens #michellestimpson

🎨🎨 BOOK TOUR 🎨🎨 Title: The Art Of Loving You (The Forever Falling Series) Author: Natasha Bishop Pub Date: 4/14/2026 The Art Of Loving You is the second book in the forever falling series. This is a story of loss, grief, discovery, rediscovery, and love. This one touched my heart because I am trying to rediscover myself, the only difference is I don’t have Micha, LOL. I liked this slow burn as we watch Dani and Micha navigate this chapter in their lives with a little help from a guardian angel who knows them, their passions and hearts. You definitely need to check this one out if you love a slow burn. #theartoflovingyou #hearourvoices #HOV