Black Books, Authors, Book Reviews, Events & More
Happy New Year! As mentioned in last month’s 5 on the Fifth Column, we have compiled a listing of The RAW Reviewers’ Favorites for 2009, as featured on Blogging in Black. Our team read hundreds of books last year, but we only spotlight 5 a month via this column, so be sure to check out [...]
We’re a bit past the middle of our Holiday Reading Challenge and it is going wonderfully. I, for one, am very glad to be doing the challenge since I haven’t read as much as I’d like this year. Granted, I’m constantly rushing to get the books read, but so far, I’ve only missed one read, [...]
December 2009 Book of the Month DOWN HOME WITH THE NEELYS: A Southern Family Cookbook by Patrick and Gina Neely Knopf, May 2009 288 Pages, Hardcover, $27.95 ISBN-10: 0307269949 ISBN-13: 9780307269942 Buy it via Amazon.com BOOK DESCRIPTION Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the [...]
December Alternate BOM DELILAH’S EVERYDAY SOUL: Southern Cooking With Style by Delilah Winder Running Press, November 2006 288 Pages, Hardcover, $29.95 ISBN-10: 0762426012 ISBN-13: 9780762426010 Buy It: Via Amazon.com BOOK DESCRIPTION Tradition meets the 21st century in this hip and colorful cookbook that shows that Soul Food doesn’t have to be “country food.” In Delilah’s [...]
We’re a week into our Holiday Reading Challenge with two chats & book discussions happening this week, followed by one next Tuesday. Can you hang? Who’s in? Have you already read any of these?? Let’s hear from you. As a reminder, you CAN count books on the list you’ve already read IF (and only if), [...]
November 2009 Book of the Month PUSH by Sapphire Vintage, April 1997 192 Pages, Paperback, $13.00 ISBN-10: 0679766759 ISBN-13: 9780679766759 BOOK DESCRIPTION An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl’s horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 [...]
November 2009 – Alternate Book of the Month THE WEDDING by Dorothy West Anchor, January 1996 265 Pages, Paperback, $13.95 ISBN-10: 0385471440 ISBN-13: 9780385471442 Book Description On the island of Martha’s Vineyard in the 1950s there exists a proud, insular, nearly unassailable community known as the Oval, made up of the best and brightest of [...]
October Alternate Book of the Month CHILDREN OF THE WATERS by Carleen Brice One World/Ballantine, June 2009 336 Pages, Paperback, $14.00 ISBN-10: 0345499077 ISBN-13: 978-0345499073 BUY IT NOW! Book Description Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when [...]
OCTOBER 2009 BOM Selection MAMA DEAREST by E. Lynn Harris Karen Hunter, September 2009 400 Pages, Hardcover, $25.99 ISBN-10: 1439158908 ISBN-13: 978-1439158906 Buy it Now Book Description New York City, you’ve been warned: Yancey Harrington Braxton is back. The ambitious singer and actress is fired up to move past her recent professional and personal setbacks [...]
SEPTEMBER 2009 BOM Selection SISTERS AND HUSBANDS by Connie Briscoe Grand Central Publishing, June 2009 288 Pages, Hardcover, $24.99 ISBN-10: 0446534897 ISBN-13: 978-0446534895 BUY A COPY BOOK DESCRIPTION Ten years have passed since Sisters and Lovers, and Beverly, now 39, is engaged to Julian, a man her family and friends agree is the epitome of [...]
