Quite a few people have been waiting for Steven Carter to release a follow up to his first novel, Emperor of Oean Park. New England White was released this summer to great reviews. If you haven't read it yet, here is your chance to win a copy!
BlackLiterature.com is giving away 2 copies. Visit the link, enter the contest and wait to win.
When I was a little girl, my mother worked swing shift. She dropped me off at the babysitter's house in the afternoon and my Dad picked me up in evenings. I remember eating dinner and watching TV in the evenings with my father before I went to bed. I learned that my Dad was great for horsing around and he could cook too!
Later my mother worked an early shift and it was my Dad who got me ready for school in the mornings. I learned that my Dad was pretty good at doing girls hair and could pick out clothes for me to wear. At some point, we set a "date night". My Dad took me out to dinner every Friday night from the time I was 3 or 4 until I did my own thing in high school. He taught me that I was special.
My Dad is smart!! When I complained about homework, it was my Dad that taught me that math should be easy. "There are only 2 things you can do in math and that's add and subtract." I've never forgotten how smart I felt after that advice. I'd brag to people about how my Dad was a genius!
When I learned how to drive, my Dad taught me on his stick shift. He said that if I learned how to drive that, he'd know I could drive anything.
My dad bought my first car and helped my shop for my second. He drove me to college when I left home and brought me back more times than he or I would like to acknowledge. ;-) He makes awesome BBQ and the best smothered porkchops when I come home.
Fathers don't get the same "props" as mothers but they are just as important. My father has sacrificed for me and I am so proud of him. I wish that every child could have what I've had in my father and I hope that one day my children will be blessed by having such a wonderfull man as their grandfather.
I don't know if he'll read this, but even if if doesn't, I want the world to know. I love my dad!!
Happy Father's Day, Daddy
I recently joined a new book club and the first book was on the reading list was The Untelling. I joined the Tayari Jones fan club last year, so I was more than happy to read it for the third time. If you are looking for an author to watch, add Tayari Jones to your list.
Synopsis:
When Ariadne was nine, she lived through a car crash that killed her father and baby brother. The tragedy left the surviving members wounded by rage and guilt. At 25, Aria has done her best to establish a normal life for herself, living in Atlanta and teaching literacy to inner-city teenaged girls. For the first time, she has people who love her and in whom she can confide. When she discovers that she may be pregnant, Aria is seduced by the promise of a normal family. Then everything changes in ways she never anticipated.
