#tara m. stringfellow

[derangedrhythms]

She looked like she had been to the underworld and back and could speak the language of the dead and the lost.

Tara M. Stringfellow, from 'Memphis'

#tara m. stringfellow #memphis #prose #p #quotations from books i didn't like

[wyn-n-tonic]

Books by Black Authors for Black History Month!

I wanted to share a list of books I love and books that I'm looking forward to reading that are by Black authors in acknowledgement of Black History Month. I feel like a lot of my fellow readers (especially my fellow white readers) always go into a, kind of, reading slump in February and I don't know if that's because the month of January is just ten years long that February feels like a hangover or if it's because they feel the desire to read books by Black authors but then the majority of what is marketed is usually books that are steeped in trauma or nonfiction books. And, like, yeah, nonfiction books are so important but when they're the only kind of book marketed it can make finding the other kinds of books that much harder but I believe that if you read the fun books and the happy books and the fantasy books it will make you want to seek out the nonfiction resources. I'm blabbering so long story short, I thought I would make a little list to do some of the legwork for my fellow readers to find stories that they can check out.

I used GoodReads links (and one StoryGraph) link, you can choose who to purchase from yourself (although I will suggest BookShop.org as your purchase does go towards indie bookstores, I also really like the Libby App which is just your library and it works with your Kindle/Nook/Kobo/iPad). All authors that I have included in this are American or have strong ties to the USA which is why I did not include authors such as Bolu Babalola, Talia Hibbert, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie but I do highly recommend checking them out if you haven't because they do write gorgeously.

Kennedy Ryan has an extensive backlog and beautiful writing, beautiful prose. She had a book called Before I Let Go (Skyland #1) come out in November 2022, it is a second chance romance between a married couple. It has been on my shelf forever, the cover is beautiful and I've heard nothing but truthfully incredible things. I have listened to snippets of the audiobook but keep putting off getting the actual audiobook because Kennedy is the kind of author I want to read the grammar, syntax, wording of everything from. This book actually got optioned to be adapted into a television show and there's a second Skyland book coming out in March called This Could Be Us that has the ARC readers going wild.

Jasmine Guillory is one of my favorite authors. She is a Bay Area native and has a law degree from Stanford. Not only do I think that she writes beautifully but I cannot even describe to you the way that I kick my little feet and twirl my hair. I feel like my favorite of hers changes. Up until a few weeks ago, I would've told you that Olivia Monroe in Party of Two was my favorite Jasmine girly but I listened to Royal Holiday to kick off my reading for January and Vivian Forest is such a beautiful character. She's a 56 year old Black woman who is a veteran social worker who thinks it's too late for her on several fronts and then she gets swept off her feet while on a vacation with her daughter AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. What?! I also think that Jasmine writes, like.... character appropriate sex scenes if that makes sense. Like, Vivian's scenes are more reserved than Olivia's were, Vivian's more closed door than Olivia's were. She also has a Beauty and the Beast inspired book called By The Book and I kept texting my friend the entire way through and then made her buy a copy so she could text me right back with all her thoughts. Amazing. I love her.

You want cozy fantasy romance with monsters and happy Black women being loved by their hot monster lovers? Kimberly Lemming has GOT YOU COVERED.

Plugging my new author friend P.J. Leigh and her book Olawu. She actually responded to my request for some indie author recs on Threads and sent me a copy of Olawu that will be here on Friday and I'm so excited. She describes it as: "Set in precolonial East Africa with romance, action, sisterhood, found family, and a feisty but flawed female lead." I cannot wait to dig into this one.

Another author who messaged me is indie author Quiana Glide. Her bio is that she is an unabashed fangirl and her books feature pregnancy trope, cosplay, professional wrestlers and cafe owners solving murders. Her books sound fucking great and they are available on Kindle Unlimited for my KU girlies (gender neutral).

Celestine Martin messaged me as well and she writes paranormal romance with Black witches, emo mermen and fae princes. I tripped over myself running to my Libby app to place a hold on the audiobook.

25 to Love! by Joye Johnson is another one available on Kindle Unlimited for my KU girlies (gender neutral). The synopsis is: "TV's hottest dating show is '25 to Love!'. To nab a guy from her past, Lola signs on as the token girl of color. All's fair in love and ratings--can a week on TV get Lola closer to the one that got away?" You know what I love? Second chance romances, besties, that's right.

Splinter by Jasper Hyde was another I was recommended. Jasper writes paranormal, LGBTQ+ books. Jasper Hyde is a pen name for Georgina Kiersten who also goes by Rian Fox. The pen name denotes the subgenre that they write. Georgina does go by they/them pronouns and writes plus sized rep and neurodivergent rep too.

Kelly Cain. That's it. That's the tweet. THE EVERHEART BROTHERS SERIES????? If you know anything about me, you know that I have a hearing issue and so I've used audiobooks before but I never really clicked with them or got the hype. Turns out I had boring ass narrators (look I did the audio version of a lot of nonfiction books I had to read about old dead white guys in college so of course I had that feeling). THE EVERHEART BROTHERS AUDIOBOOKS ARE WHAT CHANGED ME. Deanna Anthony, the narrator, is so engaging and I didn't feel like I was listening to an audiobook, I felt like I was sitting across the table at brunch having a gossip session with my bestie. If you read it and you didn't like it, that's fine, but I didn't lie to you and enjoyment of art is subjective but also you're wrong and argue with a wall.

I've been seeing a lot of talk lately about Pride & Protest by Nikki Payne. This is a Pride & Prejudice and one of the reviews says, "If you ever wanted P&P to feel more like watching a swoony, steamy episode of Insecure, this is the book for you."

Currently, I am reading You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. It deals with themes of grief and romance and also bisexual representation. Absolutely beautiful prose. Akwaeke is Nigerian and has been in the USA since college. They are non-binary and go by they/them pronouns.

I also cannot end this list without mentioning Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow. This follows three generations of a southern Black family in the neighborhood of Douglass in Memphis, TN (I was born a couple miles away in Raleigh) . Now, this book does have quite a few trigger warnings that I won't put here but I do encourage you to READ THE TRIGGER WARNINGS before you purchase this book as it does deal with some pretty heavy subject matter.

I'm also going to end this by saying to keep an eye out for anything done by my best friend, the person who I have shared so many amazing, beautiful, life changing experiences with ALL OVER THE WORLD for the last fourteen years: Isana Skeete (Isana does not use pronouns). If you look at the GoodReads account for Isana that I linked, you'll see lists made with recommendations of books with queer POC rep and asexuality representation.

#long post #black authors #book recs #book club #booklr #kennedy ryan #jasmine guillory #kelly cain #kimberly lemming #tara m. stringfellow #akwaeke emezi #nikki payne #georgina kiersten #jasper hyde #pj leigh #joye johnson #celestine martin #romance books #paranormal romance #contemporary romance #i'm posting this now and then will rebagel in the morning

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Memphis: A Novel

By Tara M. Stringfellow.

#Memphis #Tara M. Stringfellow #books #book covers

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"Memphis", de Tara M. Stringfellow, será lançado em janeiro

Memphis, um romance da autora Tara M. Stringfellow que vai te surpreender, uma trama familiar vivida por três gerações. Saiba mais sobre essa história fascinante no link. #romance #livros #lancamento

O livro “Memphis” de Tara M. Stringfellow será lançado em janeiro. É um romance que conta a história de três gerações de uma família negra no sul dos Estados Unidos e a descoberta de uma filha de que tem o poder de mudar o legado de sua família. Tara M. Stringfellow é poetisa, ex-advogada e formada em artes plásticas pela Northwestern University, já escreveu para diversas publicações, incluindo…

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Tara M. Stringfellow || Memphis

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 Longlist Memphis is the story of the women in the North family, told by Joan. Her story is the main one; the perspective of some of the other women gets mixed with hers in separate chapters however, which results in a broader perspective of the family history. Interlaced with many important moments in Black American history. The story starts when Joan, her mother…

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#reading is fun #American literature #black issues #black lives matter #Child abuse #Great Novel #Great reading #literature #Memphis #PTSS #racism #Tara M. Stringfellow #Women&039;s Prize 2023 #Women&039;s Prize for Fiction 2023 #Women&039;s Prize longlist 2023

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Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 longlist announced.

Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 longlist announced.

The Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 longlist was announced on December 12, 2022. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture. Eligible works include novels or short story…

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#Aspen Words Literary Prize #Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 #Chinelo Okparanta #Jonathan Escoffery #Ladee Hubbard #Noviolet Bulawayo #Tara M. Stringfellow

[lillyli-74]

She looked like she had been to the underworld and back and could speak the language of the dead and the lost.

~Tara M. Stringfellow

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Memphis by Tara M.Stringfellow.

#books #new read #my thoughts #toni morrison #Tara M Stringfellow #reading list #loving this book so far

[devitalise]

another round of music i’ve been listening to this week x

#i’ve read stoner by john williams and harlem shuffle by colson whitehead recently and listening to reader made playlists. would recommend #my bhm reading includes: harlem shuffle. if beale street could talk by james baldwin. honey and spice by bolu babalola. #memphis by tara m. stringfellow. how the one armed sister sweeps her house and girl woman other #i don’t own any horror books i haven’t already read but i’m gonna finish the year reading fantasy i think #either that or i start the count of monte cristo in november #hiiiii. byeeeee x

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Alma, resiliência e tributo às mulheres negras

  Setenta anos separam três vozes que se movem para trás e para frente no tempo. É a partir desta fluência cronológica que Memphis, o livro de estreia da poeta Tara M. Stringfellow traça um retrato sobre legados de pessoas negras. Publicada pelo selo Tordesilhas, a obra apresenta um recorte da complexidade familiar e social vivenciada por afro-americanos: brutalidade e justiça, fé e perdão,…

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#memphis #menphis #mulheres negras #tara m #tara stringfellow

[zoethewriter]

There are many good writers out there but there are not many who write in the exact way I want to read. This writer is in that number. This novel is so lyrical, the way it reads like music at times, and poetry at others, like old folk tales and passed-down family histories. It feels deeply personal and deeply grounded and these characters' lives are as beautiful as they are tragic.

This is a story about these women and the different men in their lives, fathers, husbands, sons, cousins, who bring them equal amounts of joy and pain. But more than that, this is a story about these women and the women in their lives, who love and support and commune and teach and survive and thrive.

I cried.

#memphis #tara m stringfellow #american literature #black literature #literature #book review #zoesreviews

[derangedrhythms]

But in the very pit of her, in her veins and arteries and sinews, she knew she loved this unknown man.

Tara M. Stringfellow, from 'Memphis'

#tara m. stringfellow #memphis #prose #l #quotations from books i didn't like

[thebooksareeverywhere]

Review: Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

Review: Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

Goodreads | Waterstones In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s violence, seeking refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass–only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis. This wasn’t the first…

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#book blog #book review #books #bookworm #memphis #reading #tara m stringfellow

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Spring Reading List: Reviewed

Spring Reading List: Reviewed

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#ReadWomen #ali hazelwood #anne tyler #arcs #backlist #buy yourself the fucking lilies #elektra #Fiction #french braid #frontlist #jennifer saint #memphis #netgalley #nina lacour #spring reading list #tara m stringfellow #tara schuster #tbr #tbr list #the love hypothesis #yerba buena

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Memphis: alma e resiliência em tributo às mulheres negras

Conheça "Memphis", o novo livro da autora Tara M. Stringfellow que traz um tributo cheio de alma e resiliência às mulheres negras.

Em novo romance, a poeta e multiartista Tara M. Stringfellow retrata a cultura afro-americana em tributo às mulheres negras. Em “Memphis”, três narrativas, separadas por setenta anos, se entrelaçam no tempo. O novo livro da estreante Tara M. Stringfellow, que será publicado com o selo Tordesilhas, apresenta vozes que refletem sobre os legados e a ancestralidade do povo negro. A obra traz um…

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#cultura afro-americana #livros para mulheres negras #livros sobre mulheres #Memphis #memphis tara m stringfellow #tara m stringfellow #tributo as mulheres negras

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Midnights: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (Lavender Haze)

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (Maroon)

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi (Anti-Hero)

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Snow On The Beach)

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (You're On Your Own, Kid)

Solitaire by Alice Oseman (Midnight Rain)

Moxie by Jennifer Matthieu (Question...?)

Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Vigilante Shit)

Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given (Bejeweled)

Nana by Ai Yazawa (Labyrinth)

Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer (Karma)

Anne's House Of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery (Sweet Nothing)

Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber (Mastermind)

Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow (The Great War)

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (Bigger Than The Whole Sky)

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Paris)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (High Infidelity)

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus (Glitch)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Would've, Could've, Should've)

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (Dear Reader)

Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter (Hits Different)

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