Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance | 
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pick⭐️⭐️⭐️½ Rating this as a Pick mostly because I really appreciate Zora Neale Hurston's writing and because some of the stories, although painful, were truly gorgeous. However, I think this collection of stories would have been better read in many short sittings rather than in just a couple of days because they are largely unhappy.
The first story, John Redding Goes to Sea, remained my favorite throughout. Devastating but incredibly beautiful.
Enjoying some after-work reading! 📚☕️
pickI really liked these stories, particularly Eatonville Anthology. It inspired my own writing..
I liked the appearance of certain characters in different stories. Some of them had a folk tale quality about them which really transported me. I wish this were my own copy and not the library's.
so-soI won't call this a new favorite, but I enjoyed some of the stories. It got a little bit tiresome with all the useless men and gold digging women after a while though, and I think I would have appreciated the stories more if I had read it as a sort of annotated text, with cultural references and context explained.
What a great reading list from @wellreadblackgirl !https://www.wellreadblackgirl.com/reading-list #shesaid
So far quite interesting but seriously, what useless and horrible men! My current audiobook while working on my wool project
pick4-. I'm not, generally, a fan of short stories, so this rating is unusually high for me. I didn't like all of the stories equally. The writing, though. . . .
This was so sweet of you @JoScho !!!! I really loved the whole #ReadBlackAuthors challenge — do you have any plans to make it a recurring thing? 🥰🤗
pickExcellent! Each and every story was excellent. I even enjoyed the prologue, it gave information about Zora. One fact that stood out was that she never looked into the camera when she was photographed. I Googled her and it was true. I don‘t know with that stuck with me. Black Death and Possum or Pig? Were my 2 favorites. I enjoyed EVERY story.
Sharing books by black authors during the month of July. I will add the synopsis from Goodreads below and in the comments.
From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. ⬇️
#ReadBlackAuthors #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BeTheChange
pickI loved Zora Neale Hurston‘s book of short stories, I can‘t believe she wrote so few and it took so long for them to be published together. I appreciated the variety of lives she was interested in - she‘s definitely free from being accused of always writing about the same types of people! It‘s true I didn‘t love it as much as Their Eyes Were Watching God but then I don‘t love many books that much so it isn‘t a fair comparison.
❤️ZoraNealeHurston anything... such gems in these short stories.🎧
pickOh my, Zora‘s writing is amazing. I didn‘t enjoy all of the short stories, but many are beautifully lyrical and heartbreaking. The audio performance is incredible!
Excited to read these "new" stories from Zora Neale Hurston!
The characters in these short stories leap off the pages along with Zora's wit and wisdom. 👑
#blackhistorymonth #womenshistorymonth
Anyone else buy this on for the title??? (Plus, it‘s on sale on Kindle!)
On sale today in US ebook stores. Newly published Zora!
I just started reading this book. My first book of Zora Neale Hurston's.
I absolutely love it. Heartbreakingly beautiful stories. I highly recommend this book.
#BLACKHISTORYMONTH📖😍❤️📚
Finished the first book for the #widehorizonsreadathon! I‘m at just over 4 hours-my goal is 30-so off to a good start. @Emilymdxn
Thanks for the tag @Eggs
1. Finishing the tagged today then I‘ll be starting The Nickel Boys
2. My family ❤️
3. MI to visit family (in the summer! 😂), the mountains. We would also like to go back to Wyoming and Yosemite.
I‘m tagging @Clwojick @Emilymdxn @TheAromaofBooks @veritysalter @Inkblotsandcoffeestains @hes7 @Chili @AsYouWish @wideeyedreader @Jadams1776 @Jerdencon
@MoonWitch94 #thoughtfulthursday
@Emilymdxn has her #widehorizonsreadathon starting today. I‘m planning on finishing the tagged book then reading The Room on Rue Amélie and The Nickel Boys. If I have time I‘ll start The Auschwitz Escape. That will finish all the library books I currently have checked out.
so-soThis is tough. If you are a completionist, grab this book as you will want this collection of lost short stories. If you know Their Eyes Were Watching God and that‘s about it, you can probably skip this one. All characters in the book speak in a written 1920s slang which can be very distracting to modern readers. Some stories were great.
1. 2 - but working on # 3
2. #readharder for sure, maybe #litsyAtoZ?
3. Too many to list, but one is Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
4. Going vegetarian again
5. Moving - hopefully without a roommate for the first time!
#thursdaysurvey @laurenslibrary
