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02/18/2022

In celebration of the late Toni Morris’ birthday today, here are 10 fiction stories from the renowned author:

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Awa...

02/09/2022

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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Read Review| Purchase on Amazon| About the Author) (Nonfiction; Humor; Strong Mother Character; Pop-Culture) The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison (Read Review| Purchase on Amazon| About the Author) (Nonfiction; Reflective; Bookshelf Staple; Historical Author) The L...

09/11/2021

Another book box coming my way soon! 😍

Choose from this month's featured books and get reading.

06/30/2021

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

06/23/2021

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

06/16/2021

“‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

06/02/2021

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.” — Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

05/26/2021

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

05/19/2021

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

05/12/2021

“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

05/05/2021

“Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.” — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

04/28/2021

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price.” — John Updike, Rabbit, Run