What better day for book trailers than a Saturday?
Knockout Games by Greg Neri was released yesterday.
Book review: Americanah
The best way for me to summarize “Americanah” by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is to describe the wonderful warm and fuzzy feeling after completing the book. Even though it was a work of fiction, the experiences described felt raw, personal and compelling in a way that could only come from someone who had been through all of them.
Americanah is the story of young lovers Ifemelu and Obinze who first met in high school in Nigeria which was then under military rule, a period dominated by upheavals and uncertainties that drove the poor as well as the well-educated locals to look elsewhere for greener pastures. Such circumstances inevitably forced them to search for better lives, Ifemelu to the U.S. and Obinze to England, and separated their fates.
While in foreign lands, their identities instantly transformed as they became African migrants confronted with new sets of problems they had never…
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freaks & geeks at the Harlem Book Fair
We lost a giant in the field of children’s literature. Walter Dean Myers passed away yesterday, shocking and saddening everyone in the kidlit community. I doubt I will publish over fifty books for kids in my lifetime but I do hope to leave behind a legacy of service to the community that is as meaningful as Mr. Myers’. It’s been ten years since my own father passed away and I still think about him almost every day. My thoughts and prayers are with the Myers family. I will certainly urge my BookUP kids to select Monster for one of our summer reads.When I return from Senegal I’ll have a few days to prepare for this fantastic panel at the 2014 Harlem Book Fair. The research I’m doing here in Dakar is for The Return, Book 3 in my “freaks & geeks” trilogy. But many of us (including…
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call for proposals: REFORMA
The Call for Proposals to present at the Fifth REFORMA National Conference (RNC5) taking place in San Diego, CA, April 1-4, 2015, is now open! REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking
Please visit the website below to get the information and send your proposals for leading presentations, facilitating breakout sessions, or exhibiting posters. The conference’s theme is “Libraries Without Borders: Creating Our Future”. The 2014 REFORMA National Conference Program Committee will evaluate proposals for relevance to the conference theme, as well as clarity, originality, and timeliness.
Deadline is September 1, 2014.
Call for Panel Proposals for 2014 KidLit Con: Blogging Diversity in Young Adult and Children’s Lit: What’s Next?
Type of Event: 2014 Kidlistosphere Conference
Theme: Blogging Diversity in Young Adult and Children’s Lit: What’s Next?
When: October 10-11, 2014
Where: Tsakopoulos Library Galleria 828 I Street Sacramento, CA 95814, USA.
Goal of the event: “(…) find out ‘the best way to get the right books into the young reader’s hands.'”
Organizers and additional information
This is the eighth annual kid lit conference organized by Kidlitosphere Central, the Society of bloggers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The event is a great venue for “librarians, authors, teachers, parents, booksellers, publishers, and readers.”
If you’re a blogger, you’re kindly invited to submit a session proposal by August 1st, 2014. For more information and to register, click here.
Would be awesome if you’d help out the event and the kidlit community by spreading the word!
Sunday Morning Reads
Have you been following #WeNeedDiverseBooks on FB or Tumblr? They’ve been coming up with spot on books pairs this summer.
The WNDB Team has most recently been joined by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton. the Cake Literary Ladies!
You know everything is bigger in Texas, including the state’s annual library conference. TLA has got to be the most popular state library conference in the nation. Call for papers is currently open.
The Américas Award created a list of selected Américas Award titles that highlight issues surrounding children and the border. This and other thematic guides can be found on the Américas website:www.claspprograms.org/americasaward. Contribute your activities and titles on our Facebook page: Facebook.com/americasaward.
Children’s laureate Malorie Blackman, authors, illustrators, poets in the UK are part of a movement demanding the government insure a presence of good libraries in all schools.
And in the US? Well…
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Guest Reviewer: The Laura Line
I recently posted an interview with Crystal Allen (who happens to blog at The BrownBooksShelf) and I felt bad that I hadn’t read The Laura Line and couldn’t review it. So, I reached out to Olugbemisola Amusashonubi-Perkovich (who also blogs at The BrownBookShelf) and she helped me find a most skilled young lady to write a review. Thanks Gbemi and Ms. ARP! I’d say we all need to rush out and buy this book!
Title: The Laura Line
author: Crystal Allen
Date: Balzer + Bray; 2013
main character: Laura Dyson
guest review: ARP
Laura Dyson is a fashionista, she plays baseball, and is good at it too, and she has a crush on the school’s baseball star! However,
she believes she also has a super embarrassing family history, which she is worried will drive him away. So, she keeps it a secret, and sticks with her best buddy Sage, her…
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Coming Soon frm The Literary World of @SylviaHubbard1… #amwriting
Just got my covers and I had to show them off.
I wanted to reveal them here on the site before I revealed them on social media…
Drumroll…
Coming soon and I’ll add the synopsis soon…
The Pleasures Series – unique situations where a woman finds ultimate bliss in more ways than one.
Book One
Book Two
Like I said the synopsis are coming soon, but I’d love to know what you think is going to happen?
What new thing are you looking for in the Literary World of Sylvia Hubbard? I’d love to know how deep down the rabbit hole you think I can take you guys.
Please comment below…
Have you pick up #HisSubstituteWife Book One & Two? Read Excerpt Now and/or Review! #sylLit
His Substitute Wife… My Sister by Sylvia Hubbard
Book Details
- Paperback: 534 pages
- eBook One Length: 295 pages (click to order)
- eBook Two Length: 260 pages (Click to order)
- Publisher: HubBooks/CreateSpace (February 18, 2014)
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN-10: 1438296908
- Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1438296906
- Paperback Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
- Paperback Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
- Genre: Urban, Romance, Suspense, Erotic
- SubGenre: adultery, man-sharing, bwbm
Book Synopsis
Life has never been worth living for Charisse before her father died. After three attempts to kill herself were unsuccessful, she makes a deal for release from hell on earth, with one of the people who made her life what it was.
It wasn’t until Chyna finds out that her husband, Parker Mills, was having an affair with her twin sister, Cheyenne, that she realizes she’s losing the best thing she’s ever had. Feeling the ultimate betrayal by her own sibling, Chyna knows…
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Read Octavia E. Butler on her Birthday.
Happy Birthday, Octavia E. Butler! She would have been 67 years old today. 
I’m going to eat a cupcake in her honor and I plan to read one of the interviews in Conversations with Octavia Butler. In addition, the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network is celebrating by sharing “love notes” on their Tumblr page. I sent in a love note of my own to participate and you can take a look at it here.
If you’ve never read anything by Octavia, I suggest starting out with Bloodchild if you like short stories, or Fledgling if vampires are your thing. You like time travel? Try Kindred, but if you need a trilogy, go for Lilith’s Brood.
Side note: And a happy birthday to my cousin Krys who shares Octavia’s birthday.
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