We are thrilled to be back for Season 6 of the This Black Girl Reads Book Club! Let’s GO!!! If you’re new here welcome gurl! The ‘TBGR Book Club is a crew of book-loving sistas who connect through lit’. If you’ve been here before welcome back gurl!
So how does it work?
Well, joining is simple… Each month, we choose a book β written by a BIPOC author β and use it as the framework of our discussion.
Welcome to Season 6 of the TBGR’s Book Club. The Book Club Runs from September until May and takes place monthly. Meetings take place online and happen on the last Friday of every month.
About the Book Club
The TBGR’s Book Club creates a safe place for women of colour to connect through lit. It is a sisterhood made up of women of all shades and hues, connecting, listening, and affirming each other.
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Here’s Our Season 6 Lineup
September Book Club Pick: Only for the Week by Natasha Bishop
Meeting Date: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 at 7 pm Eastern.
Have you ever read a book that just demands to be read? A book that keeps you in a chokehold? Well, this book is all that and more.
Brief Summary:Β Janelle’s ex-boyfriend and sister are getting married. The couple has whisked their closest friends away for their two-week destination wedding. Janelle is the maid of honor, Rome is the best man, and let’s just say sparks begin to fly. This book is delicious with the right balance of beautiful romance, vacay vibes, dope-ass friends, and a little bit of drama.
October Book Club Pick: Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli
Meeting Date: Friday, October 27th, 2023 at 7 pm Eastern.
Brief Summary: Someday, Maybe is a stunning, witty debut novel about a young womanβs emotional journey through unimaginable loss, pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband. Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Depression, Grief, Family turmoil
Find the book here: https://amzn.to/3RLehSJ
To register for the discussion go here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/this-black-girl-reads-monthly-book-club-tickets-732174181687?aff=oddtdtcreator
November Book Club Pick: Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield
Meeting Date: Friday, December 1st, 2023 at 7 pm Eastern.
Brief Summary: It’s 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain safe behind gates. But the two bond through a shared love of Reggae music, spending time together at Irie’s father’s record store, listening to so-called rebel music that opens Jilly’s mind to a sound and a way of thinking she’s never heard before.
As tensions build in the streets, so do tensions between the two girls. A budding romance between them complicates things further as the push and pull between their two lives becomes impossible to bear. For Irie, fightingβwith her words and her voiceβis her only option. Blood is shed on the streets in front of her every day. She has no choice. But Jilly can always choose to escape.