A Look Back: My Day At The 2016 Los Angeles Time's Festival of Books (Event Review)

*Note: I wrote almost all of this shortly after the Bookfest event in April, but never got around to posting it. Please enjoy my look back at #Bookfest.*

I Used Litsy For 2 Weeks And Here's What It Did For Me

Litsy is an app created for bookish people to share their bookish thoughts on books.

ReadingAntoinette ScullyJune 30, 2016book app, Books, Goodreads, ios, Litsy, phones, social media Comments

#SipandRead: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf

ReadingAntoinette ScullyJune 29, 2016#SipandRead, Instagram, Ntozake Shange, Photography, Poetry, Women Authors Comments

Getting "Booked" on Poetry: Mesmerized by Kwame Alexander and His Prose (Book Review)

Anyone up for poetry masquerading as a novel?

ReadingAntoinette ScullyJune 28, 2016Kwame Alexander, Middle School, Poetry, YA, Fiction, Booked, Book Review, Teen Boys, Cultural ConnectionsComment

Friday Reads (06/24/2016)

Antoinette ScullyJune 24, 2016Blavity-com, Dawn, Diversity, IndieWire, Joe Ponder, Kings of Earth, Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, Publishing, Questlove, Shonda Rhimes, Social Justice, Women Authors, Year of YesComment

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (Book Review)

For at least a year, Parable of the Sower sat on my (borrowed) shelf and I went on with my life. I was unfamiliar with the life and work of Octavia Butler and so, I did not know how important this book would be.

ReadingAntoinette ScullyJune 23, 2016Octavia Butler, Women Authors, Fiction, Science Fiction, Parable of the Sower, Book ReviewComment

Kings of Earth by Joe Ponder (Book Review)

ReadingAntoinette ScullyJune 21, 2016Diversity, Fiction, Joe Ponder, Science Fiction, Indie Author, Self-Published Spotlight, Book Review, Cultural Connections Comment

Challenge Accepted: Reading and Photo Challenges Explained

ReadingAntoinette ScullyJune 1, 2016Goodreads, Instagram, Instagram Photo Challenge, Popsugar, Read Harder, Reading Challenge, Reading Goals 2016Comment

Death By Comb by Camari Carter (Book Review)

ReadingAntoinette ScullyMay 26, 2016Camari Carter, Los Angeles, Poetry, Women Authors, Women's Studies, Self-Published Spotlight, Nonfiction, Book Review, Death by Comb Comment

Death by Comb Book Signing at The World Stage in Leimert Park Village (Event Review)

CultureAntoinette ScullyMay 23, 2016Anansi Writer's Workshop, Book Signing, Camari Carter, Leimert Park Village, Poetry, The World Stage, Women Authors, World Stage Press, Events Comment

Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy (Book Review)

ReadingAntoinette ScullyMay 13, 2016Court Cases, History, Law, Linguistics, Pop Culture, Race, Race Relations, Randall Kennedy, Social Justice, Sociology, Nonfiction, Book Review Comments

"What Does Blackness Mean?" at the Getty (Event Review)

CultureAntoinette ScullyMay 3, 2016Blackness, History, John Harvel, Katrin Trautwein, Panel Talks, Sarah Lewis, The Getty Center, The Story of Black, Women Authors, Zocalo Public Square, EventsComment

Top Ten for the Weekend

Antoinette ScullyApril 29, 20162 Dope Girls, Beyonce, Jessica Williams, Lemonade, Melissa Harris-Perry, Phoebe Robinson, Pop Culture, Rachel Dolezal, Roxane Gay, United Shades of America, W- Kamau Bell, Warsan ShireComment

Making Lemonade at Home (Music Review)

She must see me as a live oak or a maple tree, sturdy enough to climb all the way to the top. Strong enough to carry her weight, and possibly the weight of all others. Never a hesitation of whether I will catch her as she jumps into my arms. And when I show weakness, physical limitations, she is puzzled. "What's wrong mommy? Are you ok," she'll ask. "Yes, I just need to rest lovie..."

CultureAntoinette ScullyApril 28, 2016Beyonce, Daughters, Lemonade, Music, Pop Culture, Strength, Women's StudiesComment

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire (Book Review)

It's really a trick, how short this book appears to be. You assume you'll read it in 10 or 15 minutes, and then go wash the dishes or otherwise return to your life right were you left off. 20 poems. Words with space to breathe.