I spent most of this week trying to get over the exhaustion I felt as a result of overdoing it last week. Note to self: Slow down.
What I Read Last Week:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Audiobook)
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt (Novella)
What I'm Reading Now:
The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum by Rebecca Loncraine (Bio)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Classic)
Two quotes from my reading this week in The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum by Rebecca Loncraine give me hope that I will eventually write a novel:
“It would become a painful truth that when Baum stopped trying so hard, success came to him.”
“He (Baum) couldn’t have written such a wise story so full of complex ideas as well as simple ones if he hadn’t suffered and strived for so many years…His experiences as a child and as a man, his extensive reading through which he’d absorbed the oldest archetypes from folktales, had all jumbled together in his mind to make a brilliant cocktail, which surfaced intuitively as this brilliant, hyperreal story.”
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Here are the powerful picture books I've read so far for 2024 Black History Month. I hope you will check some of these out and share them with others.
written by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and illustrated by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt
written by Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrated by James E. Ransome
written by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith
4 The Talk
written by Alicia D. Williams and illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu
by Langston Hughes and Daniel Miyares
written by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee and illustrated by Sean Qualls
written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis
written by Langston Hughes and illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr.
written by Paula Young Sheldon and illustrated by Raul Colon
written by Langston Hughes and illustrated by Bryan Collier
written and illustrated by Gordon C. James
written by Ruby Bridges
written by Stacey Abrams and illustrated by Kitt Thomas
written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis
written by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier
written by Ellen Levine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
illustrated by Kadir Nelson
written by Angela Joy and illustrated by Ekua Holmes
19 I Am Enough
written by Grace Byers and illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo
written and illustrated by Floyd Cooper
written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper
written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
written by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Shana W. Evans
written by Rio Cortez and illustrated by Lauren Semmer
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic.
Here are 3 Good Things from last week:
Good Thing #1:
Beautiful East Texas,
where we spent last weekend
with my son and his family.
Good Thing #2:
We stayed in a log cabin last weekend, and
we played with this tic-tac-toe board there.
Good Thing #3:
We enjoyed seeing
granddaughter Annie, 8,
play basketball for the first time.
Weekend linkup spots are listed below. Click on the picture to visit the site.
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