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#Queenie#Dionne brown#Samuel adewunmi#Candice Carty-Williams#channel 4#novel#mental health#caps#tv quotes#tvarchive#the eyes chico#trauma#books and reading
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Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
You Don't Know Me: "Episode 3"
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“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
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What I've Been Reading Lately: September 15
What I’ve Been Reading Lately: September 15
Welcome to What I’ve Been Reading Lately, a feature where I’ll be giving short reviews of what I’m currently reading:
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People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 3.5/5
Teaser without spoilers: Cyril is not, nor will he ever be, father material. While consistently bouncing around, he has managed to have five children with four very different women. His children don’t know one another until he awkwardly brings them together for some ice cream during their adolescence. That was the first time all five of Cyril’s children were in the same room; the second time would be for a much darker reason. Would you trust the police to handle an intense situation? Or would you ask strangers who share your DNA for help instead?
Comments: This easy-read was not what I was expecting at all. Surely the back cover of the book has to keep some secrets yet capture the reader, but I really think the paragraph could have let some of the secrets go to better encapsulate the ride the reader was about to go on. The characters were a bit cliche and dry, but each served their purpose beautifully. There were many moments where I felt the author could have dived deeper, or expanded upon, the political themes that drove the plot forward. The backgrounds of these characters were important and I really think their emotions about trusting certain institutions was intriguing. All in all, I’m glad I picked this book up at my local library after seeing it on display at a bookstore! Great start to my 2023.
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Candice Carty-Williams || People Person
I had great fun Carty-Williams' People Person. She might not be the next Tony Morrison, she definitely has a shot at being her generation's Marian Keyes.
Let’s get one thing straight first of all: I had tremendous fun reading People Person. Candice Carty-Williams presented me with some catching main persons I readily gave my heart to. I was under the impression however I was to read a literary novel, People Person, however infectious, was definitely not. Which poses the question: is that a problem? In People Person five sibling with four different…
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.
As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.
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I can't help but get a lil annoyed when i see reviews of Queenie where I feel like people have missed the point, blaming Queenie's actions on her as "stupid decisions" as opposed to a symptom of her past trauma. Like, what I got from the book was that being a black woman comes with fetishization and unique discrimination that people around you enact even if they don't see themselves as racist, and it continually affects you. I feel like just seeing the book as a series of uninfluenced decisions someone has made is missing a key aspect.
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Wrap Up March 2023
❤️ As Good As Dead - Holly Jackson (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #3) : yup, the third book and just as good as the other two! Couldn’t stop reading till the last page!
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams : didn’t plan beforehand to take this with me from the library but stumbled upon it and gave it a try... this was a really nice read :)
❤️ Revenge of the Librarians - Tom Gauld : I immediately fell in love with this bookish cartoon book! Also the cover is so pretty with the red and gold! An absolute must have for book and library lovers and librarians!
Sapiens: A Graphic History V1 - Yuval Noah Harari : I tried the book years ago but gave up on it, but this graphic novel really works! It reads easily and the graphics and drawings are really fun!
Take A Hint, Dani Brown - Talia Hibbert : bought this secondhand... it was good but did not win me over completely...
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Read & Laughs: Literary Reads Filled with Laughter
Sometimes when I feel down, I reach out to a book that fills me humor and laughter, so for this year's #WorldMentalHealthDay, make sure to share these reads with people who need a little laugh in their life. #mentalhealth #selfcare
Lockdown restrictions may be loosening up in different parts of the world. However, maybe you are still looking for that pick-me-up to brighten your spirits and get you excited for the warmer weather that is to come? Then make sure to add to your TBR list these side-splitting, laugh out loud literary reads that will make any uncertain future a little brighter at the end of the tunnel:
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#Alan Bennett#Anne of Green Gables#Beth O&039;Leary#Books#Candice Carty-Williams#Contemporary Books#Dark Humor#Fiction Books#Giant Days#Huda Fahmy#Humor#Humorous Books#Jane Austen#L.M. Montgomery#Lady Susan#Laura Steven#Literary Laughs#Mangas#Meg Cabot#Mystery#Mystery & Thriller#Oyinkan Braithwaite#Queenie#Romance#romance books#The Way of the Househusband#UK Books#UK YA Books
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Novels for Black History Month (Refreshed)
Titles, authors, and genres below the cut! Favourites are starred!
YA:
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas*
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas*
Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant*
Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall
Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson
Mystery/Thriller:
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby*
Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Sci-fi/Fantasy/Magic Realism:
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin*
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Historical:
Deacon King Kong by James McBride*
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill*
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan*
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan*
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson*
The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (May 2021)
Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé*
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe*
Contemporary:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
New People by Danzy Senna
Swing Time by Zadie Smith*
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson*
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams*
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson*
#Black History Month#book recommendations#redid the grid to add some new favourites!#rec 'em all but * are five-star faves
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"It's a pleasure to be coming aboard as the new Women’s Prize for Fiction podcast host. I'm so grateful to the community of women that have given me their time. Blending the narratives of these innovative women's lives with the books and authors that have shaped them, has been a glorious way to celebrate story as our universal language. I'm thrilled that we are dropping not one but two episodes to kick things off. Candice Carty-Williams and Claire Danes are two virtuosos, women at the nerve centres of their artistic fields. These two episodes are the perfect pairing to give you a taste of the scope of the conversations this season. I do hope you’ll join us week after week." - Zawe Ashton
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