so-soMy oat milk latte didn't seem to come with espresso today 😂. So pale!
Hughes wrote a column in a Chicago newspaper of stories about Jesse Semple, a Black Harlemite in 1910-1920 people called him Simple. He is a drinking, womanizer who waxes poetic about life in America. Overall I thought it was good for the vibe and place in time but Simple was so annoying it took me a month to read b/c I just didn't want to hang with him
Reading this feels like listening to Curtis during the NYC mayor debates?
"Not only am I half dead right now from pneumonia, but everything else has happened to me! I have been cut, stabbed, run over, hit by a car, and tromped by a horse!....."(By the Goitti's)
I haven't done one of these since March, so this is catch-up from that. I only just realised Don Quixote shouldn't be on here, but I'm not fixing it. It's been a rough few months for reading, with migraines and insomnia keeping me off new books for the most part, so the vast majority here is Twitch reading (either actually on stream, or seeing if a book would suit), but I got two SFF m/m romances in!
“…O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!“
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
Inspired by Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes. Thank you to @karisa and @cbee for reminding me of this. My heart hurts this week.
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pickUNPUTDOWNABLE histfic read that takes you back to the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the life & legacy of Jessie Redmon Fauset—a literary powerhouse often overshadowed by the very writers she helped shape. She played a pivotal role in discovering and promoting legendary voices like Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Nella Larsen.
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