0 Free Book Alert!!

I am a fan of good literature. Grand language and advanced vocabulary always get me drooling over and author. When a black woman can successfully combine the two, she will have my money each and every time.

From time to time you can find me trolling various black authors blogs looking for tidbits and deals on their latest work, so imagine my surprise when I found THIS!

There has not been enough coming out of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, save a poorly marketed documentary from Spike Lee, a Television Series that you need HBO for and now a novel that has received little or no attention at all.

I have not yet read the book, but cannot wait to read it so y'all can know what I think about this work. However, because I plan to do a whole slew of things before I write its review, I urge you to follow this link and download a free copy of the book for yourself. It is not very often that such riches fall into our hands. Let's not squander it!

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0 Books for young readers

One of the links in our Blogroll is The Brown Bookshelf.

Making books available to our children that has the themes and personality that are integral to the African American community is difficult. At the Brown Bookshelf, various Authors and books are featured as part of a collection of books written with characters and themes that we can recognize.

Today we bring you a link directly from The Brown Bookshelf that features Author and Inspirational Speaker Joyce Carol Thomas who has written over 30 books.

Click here for more...

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0 Book Review: Bloodchild

Bloodchild: And Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler

ISBN:

9781583226988

Publisher:

Seven Stories Pr

Publication Date:

2005

Binding:

Softcover

So now you know the truth. I'm a bit of a geek, a sprinkling of nerd, a sci-fi/fantasy enthusiast and one of the biggest fans of Octavia Butler's works.

My love affair with her writing started a while back, influenced by a good friend who sent me one of her books. For the first time I was confronted with the same surprise (please don't ask me why) that most people have when I tell them her novels primarily feature a black woman or a black girl!

I'll stop gushing and get on with the review.

Bloodchild is the story of a young man, Gan, part of a settlement of human beings 'rescued' by extra terrestrials, and his very quick journey to accepting his fate. The men of the settlement are used as incubation vessels for the young of the extra terrestrials. When the young come to term, the men undergo a very painful process to have them removed.

This deftly crafted story forces you to look at the role of pregnancy in cultivating and maintaining the human race on earth right now. It allows the reader to explore what it really means to be an integral part of maintaining the peaceful society in which they live, owning the responsibility to do so and keeping promises.

As is usual with my experience with Ms. Butler's novels, this one challenged my steadfastly held opinions about propagating any species. If roles were reversed, would I be willing to participate in acts that brought so much pain and confusion to a child just to bear spawn? If I were Gan, would I accept my fate so easily?

Needless to say, the book will rip your guts out, splay them on the ground and then walk away. READ IT!

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