GREETINGS ALL!

I haven't been to this forum in a while -missing out. But I'm back and thought I'd start off with some discussion on good books that celebrate our Black female Self.

I've also been looking out for some good books to read this year, to inspire me and to uplift my Self...

My 2 books of choice are:

http://www.blakeradio.com/merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=book001&Category_Code=B

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/075820096X/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-7538129-0612604#reader-page

I'd love to hear from anyone else who have books that they'd recommend.

Sister Alma2254 ... Welcome Home !!! :wave:

Thanks for the reading suggestions, i'll check them out.

I'd like to invite you to join us in Sisters Only Chat tonight @ 8 pm ET in our voice chat room ... www.destee.com/chat ... Sisters will be meeting in the CLASSES room ... we have 2 rooms ... CLASSES and OPEN MIC ... "Brothers Only Chat" will be meeting in the other room.

Much Love and Peace.

:heart:

Destee

Girl, Get Your Money Straight--Glinda Bridgforth
Girl, Make Yor Money Grow--Glinda Bridgforth and Gail Perry-Mason
Pay Yourself First--Jesse B. Brown
Slim Down Sister---Roneice Weaver, Fabiola Gaines and Angela Ebron
Black Firsts, 2nd Edition---Jessie Carney Smith


I'll start you off with those--more suggestions to come................

http://abwh.tcnj.edu/abwhbib.htm

Queenie :spinstar:

Queenie remember "Killing the Black Body" by Dorothy Roberts.

((((((((((((( Scorp))))))))))))))) so go to see you again sisterbaby. I pray all is getting better.

Remby :wave:

I would recommend ANY of bell hooks books, especially Rock My Soul : Black People and Self-Esteem

I would recommend ANY of bell hooks books, especially Rock My Soul : Black People and Self-Esteem

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Peace and blessings sister and welcome home!

Queenie :spinstar:

Hey Sisters,

Here are a couple of books i'm enjoying reading right now :

Souls of My Brothers - Dawn Marie Daniels & Candace Sandy

Practical Virtues : Everyday Values & Devotions for African American Families
- Reverand Floyd H. Flake & Reverand M. Elaine McCollins Flake


Much Peace,
Akilah
:read:

Being an English major I've read numerous books in various discourses ranging from stories about women and immigration to 19th century British fiction...

To offer suggestions about what books I would suggest to black women...along with all of the appreciated (and noted) suggestions given before me, I would ultimately have to say anything by J. California Cooper, including Family, Some Soul to Keep, Homemade Love, The Wake of the Wind, Family, A Piece of Mine, The Future Has a Past, and The Matter is Life.

A few of the books listed are novels, but most are books of short stories. If you're looking for something to give you a little guidance, inspiration, or self-help, then these may not be the books for you but this amazing author writes about love whether it is between lovers or family members. Her style is vernacular, comforting, and the characters she has created have depth and strength.

Her stories are sure to stick with you...

I would like to add

"Ten Mistakes Black Women Make
by Dr. Grace Cornish

"There Eyes Were Watching God"
by Zora Neal Hurston

"Makes Wanna Holler"
by Nathan McCall

and "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
by Maya Angelou

"There Eyes Were Watching God"
by Zora Neal Hurston


I would like to second this one. I don't know if you caught it on TV a few weeks ago, but the book is certainly worth reading.

I support our sistaz reading anything but more fiction and drama.

Everytime I go into a Borders or Barns and Noble, I can always find our sistaz piled up in Fiction/Novels sections.

I stopped going to clubs...I meet all the women I want in in just a 10 square foot of space at the back of a book store.


My sistaz really work that fiction, especially all that Zane and Omar Tyreek.



An old lady of mine took me to a book signing last year to see some some fat fool who was promoting his novel about a 14 year old black girl who was repeatedly raped and abused by her father and brothers in 1950's New Orleans.

He had the crowd going until I stood up :nono: and asked why he insisted on further destroying the image of black fathers when there wasn't enough of them around already and why he and other black authors exploit the frustrations of our sistaz just to make a quick buck ?


I turned that place out and had my man shaking to the point he couldn't drink his water without wetting up his shirt and pants.

My old lady had to drag me out of there and buy me a couple steaks at Ponderosa to sooth my soul.