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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (1997, 224 pages) Pearl Cleage packed her debut novel with fierce love for community, loyalty, purposeful living, intentional mentoring, self-care, and a whole lot of Black Girl Magic before we’d given … Continue reading
Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love (2012,186 pages) by Dr. Lela Haynes Session and Cynthia Session (MSW). This did not make my 50-page cut. I stopped reading at page 46. This left me wondering how this book ended up in my library. Did the coauthor Cynthia … Continue reading
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters (2022, 256 pages) by Joanna Gaines. Joanna writes at the beginning that this is not an autobiography and it’s not a self-help book. It also isn’t even a memoir. So, what is … Continue reading
African American Women
The Book of African American Women, 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters by Tonya Bolden, (1996, 352 pages) Reading this book, I kept coming back to the obvious question “How come I never heard of her?” The Book of African American Women explores the trials and … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 