April (2023) Group Read Recommendations/Suggestions

[Lulu, The Book Reader who could.]

Please list any books you'd like to recommend/suggest for our April group read.

[Maya]

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

[Lulu, The Book Reader who could.]

This was interesting!

[Maya]

Had it on my list for a long time

[Karin]

In light of Dosha's request for lighter reading for April what aboutThe Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe ? He's sort of multinational, born in Haiti, raised in Montréal, went to college in the States and now lives in NYC.

Or, one I haven't read yet, but that is marked humour as well as memoir, Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump I am not sure that this will be light, but it's been shelved humor nearly as many times as race--actually, if you count the humour shelf, more times. Mistakenly shelved African-American more often than Canadian, but that's not unusual in my experience.

[Shaylah]

Hey Group,

Right now, we only have two suggestions which is really great but for the poll we’d like to have at least five.

The last day to recommend a book will be 3/15/2023. The poll will be open on the 16th and run through the 23rd.

Please, if anyone wants to nominate a book for April drop it in the thread 😊

[Angel]

I know this may not be a light hearted read but it sounds interesting. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I would like to nominate The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes. It is lighthearted fun and sheds a light on Mr. Hughes sense of humor.

[Shaylah]

Ok, there's five noms here so I'm going to create the poll.

They're all great suggestions. Can't wait to see what we're reading in April 😀

[Shaylah]

Here's the link to the poll

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Karin]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I would like to nominate The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes. It is lighthearted fun and sheds a light on Mr. Hughes sense of humor."

Thanks! I love that idea better than the one I nominated. However, the poll is leaning to a darker novel so far. But I am going to try to avoid those for April since it's tax month, etc.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

What are we reading as a group for April?

[Shaylah]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "What are we reading as a group for April?"

Hey Dosha,

Nightcrawling won the poll. So we’ll be reading that in April.

[Shaylah]

Hey Group!

Would anyone like to volunteer to lead the group discussion for the month of April?

[Karin]

Sorry, I'm going to bow out of this book since I already have a couple of heavier books in my April pile and am finally going to read Kindred which is on the heavy side of my April reading pile.

[Angel]

I went ahead and bought both Night Crawling and The Best of Simple so I would like to re nominate the Best of Simple for the following month.

[Karin]

Angel wrote: "I went ahead and bought both Night Crawling and The Best of Simple so I would like to re nominate the Best of Simple for the following month."

Yes, I'd also like to re-nominate The Best of Simple

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I also would like to re-nominate The Best of Semple.