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shirkers2018dirsanditan · 2 years

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i need a love songs miniseries yesterday fr. i know it would ignite all kinds of dumb fucking black trauma and colorism discourse even though class and color and hierarchy are themes throughout the novel and HFJ does soooo many interesting and layered things with skin color and provides so many perspectives on color line experiences. and people would call it triggering or whatever because like 40% of the novel’s characters experienced CSA. and it would ignite dumb fucking SLAVERY black trauma discourse which is the worst. but its so good i need it.

i already know how they should do it. multi part mini series. ideally each part would be 10 episodes, each episode an hour or more each. three parts: the native americans in the place of the tall trees and it ends when samuel arrives and befriends micco; then the next part focuses on the saga that unfolds on samuel’s plantation, and we learn early on how he manipulates micco through flashbacks; and the final and longest part is the main part of the novel that’s the lives of the garfields with flashbacks to include uncle root’s narrative (since we learn about them through stories he tells ailey anyway). lydia’s and belle’s sections should be two hour episodes, and belle’s should come before lydia’s like in the book. also coco should get an episode we should elaborate on her in the miniseries. it should be an hour and a half. the final part should be like 15 episodes though because it has to fit the bulk of ailey’s life and uncle root’s flashbacks. and the double sided events we get from both ailey and lydia’s perspective. the episode before lydia’s should end when ailey finds her like it does in the book. every other episode should be an hour also. it should be like a 35 episode mini series but we get each part over a period of time so it still feels like a miniseries.

literally HBO i will give you this for free my only condition is you let misha green be showrunner for part 2. justice for underground

#i’m fine with coco not getting much time in the book she is the middle child after all #but i’d like a series to give her a bit more

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memoriesfrombooks · 1 year

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The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers is about growing up and about owning your history - the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly. At over 800 pages, the book takes the time to develop characters and the story of Ailey Pearl Garfield and her family across decades. In that evolution, the book seamlessly embeds history and culture. The story is at the same time deeply personal and historically global.

Reviewed for NetGalley.

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seeingorange · 1 year

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Review: The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois

The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois is a long book, but it's also an incredibly rewarding reading experience, and one that readers are likely to want to revisit more than once. Jeffers' debut novel has all the makings of a modern classic.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s epic debut novel combines a moving intergenerational family saga of an African American with historical, almost mythical accounts of their ancestors in the early 1700s, as they forged relations with Creek Native Americans. The narrative follows a central protagonist, Ailey Garfield through her youth and young adulthood, as she navigates school, her family and the wider…

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kunstplaza · 2 years

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bibliobethblog · 2 years

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This epic and powerful novel was on my radar ever since I first heard about it and I was quite surprised that it didn’t make the Women’s Prize longlist 2022. It was a perfect book to read as a buddy read with a host of lovely bookstagrammers as there were so many points where the narrative was so moving that I just needed to discuss what I was reading with others. ⁣ ⁣ This is an incredible debut novel from an author who is also a poet and this comes across beautifully in the lyrical prose and structure of the story. In the present day, we are following Ailey Pearl Garfield as she researches her ancestors - generations of Black, indigenous and white family members that all have important tales to tell. ⁣ ⁣ The reader experiences Ailey’s story as she continues her research and during that process, finds out much more about her own identity. Interspersed between Ailey’s tale are the tales of her ancestors and it makes for heartbreaking and chilling reading. ⁣ ⁣ This is the kind of novel that leaves its mark long after the final page has been turned. The echoes of the enslaved ancestors voices are haunting, memorable and incredibly important and some of the passages are so horrific that it made for an emotional and difficult reading experience. ⁣ ⁣ The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Du Bois is a masterful and majestic work and one of the very rare novels that you could declare as an absolute masterpiece. It’s a book that definitely begs for a re-read and I truly believe that the reader could get even more out of it on a second reading. ⁣ ⁣ Five glorious stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 ⁣ ⁣ #bookstagram #bookstagramuk #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookreviewer #fivestarread #fivestarreview #thelovesongsofwebdubois #honoréefanonnejeffers #importantbooks #memorablereads #unforgettablenovels #readthisbook #novelsaboutslavery #indigenousvoices #blackvoices https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdv8wgcLvCf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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rockislandadultreads · 3 years

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Intricate Plots & Beautifully Written

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders. Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women—her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors—Indigenous, Black, and white—in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story—and the song—of America itself.

Half Life by Jillian Cantor

In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. But what if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie? Entwining Marie Curie’s real story with Marya Zorawska’s fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled—and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya’s life, Jillian Cantor’s unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved – as well as the world at large and course of science and history—might have been irrevocably changed in ways both great and small.

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical physicist, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancé Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father. Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theatre baron father is dead—but by purpose or accident? The question rips him apart. Unable to face alone his mother’s ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Patel, whom he hasn’t seen since their relationship changed forever from platonic to something…other. Loyal to a fault (truly, a fault), Horatio is on the first flight to NYC when he finds himself next to a sly tailor who portends inevitable disaster. And who seems ominously like an architect of mayhem himself. Meanwhile, Ben’s ex-fiancé Lia, sundered her from her loved ones thanks to her addiction recovery and torn from her art, has been drawn into the fold of three florists from New Orleans—seemingly ageless sisters who teach her the language of flowers, and whose magical bouquets hold both curses and cures. For a price. On one explosive night these kinetic forces will collide, and the only possible outcome is death. But in the masterful hands of Lyndsay Faye, the story we all know has abundant surprises in store. Impish, captivating, and achingly romantic, this is Hamlet as you’ve never seen it before.

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