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When I started reading this book, I was immediately intrigued with how fluid the sentences were composed and how vividly the images came off the page. I had to stop reading and google the author’s name, Francis Ray, to see why this book was [...]

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FeMALE TRAITS by Lurea C. McFadden
“Oh! What a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive!”
Sir Walter Scott
from Marmion, Verse 6, Stanza 17
This famous quote is played out in Lurea McFadden’s debut novel, FeMALE TRAITS. Grace Trufant is married to the man most [...]

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From the poem Writing Magic:

Some writers choose just a scant few
to say a lifetime of feelings,While other writers
gather thousands of words in a book
to paint a few days of one life…

Animated Objects is Linda D. Addison’s debut offering. This is a mesmerizing mixture of poetry [...]

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Torn follows the bittersweet relationship between lovestruck Mo and eternal-playboy Quan. The line between right and wrong in their relationship is hazy because Mo and Quan have invested nearly a decade of love, time and money in each other. Although the fruits of Quan’s hustling is [...]

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Queen is the debut novel from one of Triple Crown Publications’ newest authors, Cynthia White. The namesake of this alluring novel is daddy’s little girl. Queen’s daddy just happens to be Hershey Aaron, the Boss of St. Louis’ most powerful organization, the Black Mafia.
The murder of her unfaithful mother sends Hershey to death row and [...]

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I knew it had to happen eventually. I mean, the realness I write is just too much for the mainstream to digest. Just kidding…
Well, I usually post the my reviews on Amazon.com within 48 hours of submitting them to the websites I review for. So I sat for a couple of days after I posted [...]

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One thing that rings true with Urban Lit, Street Lit or Urban Fiction (whatever you like to call it) is the fact that there is a strong female aspect to the movement. African American females are well represented in Urban Fiction’s readership and authorship. I would even go so far as to say that most [...]

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On the heels of my last post, this is the same thing in reverse. Instead of lumping everything together because of a common denominator, black authors, Simmons Teen Reading writes about a librarian urging her colleagues keeping urban lit separated from the other books in the young adult section. I have to agree with [...]

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Christopher Chambers writes about the “blacks only” section popping up in many bookstores and supermarts. In his quest for Matt Johnson’s graphic novel Incognegro, he’s directed to the “black section”. Mixed in with the urban fiction is other classics like Richard Wright’s Native Son and Dorothy West’s The Wedding. ( must admit that I’ve only [...]

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Lori Johnson shared an interesting aspect of reader feedback about the sex in her novel After The Dance. Two distinct groups: those that wanted more, those that thought it was too much. Although sex sells, that wasn’t the focus of her book. Her take on the whole matter is this: adults read what they want [...]

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