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Book Review: Not Even If You Begged by Francis Ray for St. Martin’s Griffin

Posted on May 29th, 2008 in Francis Ray, Griffin, Not Even If You Begged, St. Martin, african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, book review, book reviews, criticism, love, romance, romance novel, romance novels, sex, sexier

(hover your cursor over the book cover to see the Amazon.com prices) 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 [...]

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Book Review: FeMALE TRAITS by Lurea C McFadden for Bruce Publishing

Posted on May 26th, 2008 in african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, book review, book reviews, bruce publishing, criticism, female traits, lurea mcfadden, sex, sexier, street lit, torn, urban fiction, urban lit

(hover your cursor over the book cover to get the amazon.com prices) 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 [...]

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Book Review: Animated Objects by Linda D. Addison for Space & Time

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 in african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, animated objects, book review, book reviews, criticism, linda addison, poems, poet, poetry, time and space

(hover your cursor over the book cover for Amazon.com prices.) 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 [...]

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Book Review: Torn by Keisha Ervin for Triple Crown Publications

Posted on May 20th, 2008 in african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, book review, book reviews, criticism, drugs, keisha ervin, sex, st louis, street lit, torn, triple crown publications, urban fiction, urban lit

(Hover cursor over book cover to see the Amazon.com prices.) 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 [...]

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Book Review: Queen by Cynthia White for Triple Crown Publications

Posted on May 17th, 2008 in african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, book review, book reviews, criticism, cynthia white, queen, sex, st louis, street lit, triple crown publications, urban fiction, vickie stringer, violence

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 [...]

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Say Word! My review got banned by Amazon.com!

Posted on May 14th, 2008 in african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, book review, book reviews, crave all lose all, criticism, customer service, drugs, erick s gray, hip hop, street lit, urban book source, urban fiction, urban lit

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 [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day To The Mothers of Urban Fiction

Posted on May 11th, 2008 in african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, hip hop, jada pinkett-smith, let that be the reason, sister souljah, street lit, teri woods, the coldest winter ever, triple crown publications, true to the game, urban fiction, urban lit, vickie stringer

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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Yeah, but naaaah…

Posted on May 08th, 2008 in african american author, african american book, criticism, drugs, sex, street lit, urban lit, violence

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 the [...]

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The black’s only water fountain…I mean, reading section.

Posted on May 06th, 2008 in african american author, african american book, christopher chambers, criticism, dorothy west, hip hop, incognegro, matt johnson, native son, richard wright, street lit, the wedding, urban lit, willie lynch

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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Sex Sells or Repels

Posted on May 05th, 2008 in sex, sexier, street lit, urban lit

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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