June (2023) Group Read Recommendations/Suggestion

[Shaylah]

Hey Group! It’s time to suggest a book for the month of June.

What would y’all like to see on the poll for next month??

Suggestions will close May 10th at 11:59pm PST or once we have five nominations, which ever comes first.

Happy suggesting 🤓

[Shaylah]

Hey Y’all!

I have a couple suggestions.

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card

[Lulu, The Book Reader who could.]

I'm gonna suggest some mystery/thrillers this month. lol

Assume Nothing by Gar Anthony Haywood

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry

Lyrics of a Blackbird: A Jazz Age Mystery by Persia Walker

[Shaylah]

These sound good! I’m already leading toward the voodoo story lol

[Karin]

Shaylah wrote: "Hey Y’all!

I have a couple suggestions.

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card"

I'm already leaning to The Girl with the Hazel Eyes. It got four stars from a GR friend whose rating I have learned usually works well for me, and I don't know if I've ever read any authors from Barbados before --it's a small country and there aren't that many. It would be great to read authors from all of the Caribbean countries (I've read some, but not many.)

[Kay Dee (what is your storygraph name?]

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

according to one of my reviewers this is a great story but will be traumatic. like violent, sad, awful, stuff happens more than once.

[Shaylah]

Karin wrote: "Shaylah wrote: "Hey Y’all!

I have a couple suggestions.

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy..."</i>

I read [book:How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House and the author is from Barbados. The book was well written but the story was so sad and depressing. I had to put it down several times because the violence was described in such graphic detail that I thought I wouldn’t finish. Hazel eyes doesn’t seem to be that type of story which is why I suggested it.

[Shaylah]

Kay Dee wrote: "Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

according to one of my reviewers this is a great story but will be traumatic. like violent, sad, awful, stuff happens more than once."

Oh wow, if that’s what’s happening I can’t read that right now lol. I’m really trying to take a break from graphic violence stories.

[Karin]

Shaylah wrote: "Karin wrote: "Shaylah wrote: "Hey Y’all!

I have a couple suggestions.

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

These Ghosts Are Family by..."

I started that book but it was so very dark and depressing that I didn't like it and dnf :)

[Shaylah]

Hey Y’all!

Here’s the link to the poll for June’s group read

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

[Kay Dee (what is your storygraph name?]

Karin wrote: "Shaylah wrote: "Hey Y’all!

I have a couple suggestions.

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

These Ghosts Are Family by..."

I started that book but it was so very dark and depressing that I didn't like it and dnf :) "

which book????

[Karin]

Kay Dee wrote: "Karin wrote: "Shaylah wrote: "Hey Y’all!

I have a couple suggestions.

The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning

These Ghosts Are Family by..."

I started that book but it was so very dark ..."

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

[Shaylah]

Hey Y’all!

There’s a tie between two books so I extended the poll. It’s open until tomorrow, 5/25/2023 11:59 pst.

Please vote if you haven’t already or change your vote if your original choice has no chance of winning.

Thanks so much 🤓

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

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I voted for the jazz book for the second time, lol

[Shaylah]

Yea that was my original vote also. Now we just need a few more people to vote for it lol 😉

[Karin]

My choice has no chance of winning, but I'm not sure that I'll read either of the two at the top so am going to pass on changing my vote.

[Shaylah]

Hey y’all!

June’s group read will be Lyrics of a Blackbird. Can’t wait to get started

🤓

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

Yippie!

I am looking forward to it also.

[Angel]

I might have to sit the coming month’s selection out. I am STILL reading Stella, Best of Simple and another book I just started, Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. I will always be the one trying to catch up to the rest of all of you readers!

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I am still trudging on through Stella also. I may finish five other books before I finish with her. Stella is like a part time job, lol.

[Karin]

I finished The Best of Simple: Stories For June I have a few books by Canadian immigrant authors on my list, mostly from different parts of Asia so there will be race issues there--I've been neglecting Canadian authors and since it's where I was born & raised I try to support them. But other than that, in June so I'm trying to read lighter fare, although it turns out one of the funny books I got also deals with racism, but it's by a white Swedish author whose funny satire I have enjoyed in the past (I didn't pay attention, just saw the title and the author).

So if anyone has any good, light and/or funny books by black authors, please let me know! Preferably with puncutation, clean language and sex left to the imagination (I have no idea why I don't like reading or watching sex scenes since I did not grow up a prude or with prudish parents.)

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

How did you like Simple?

I also tire of being voyeur, I don’t enjoy reading all the details in the art of lovemaking.

[Shaylah]

Hey Karin,
I’m totally with you on not wanting to read sex scenes in books. I don’t like them in movies either but they’re so commonplace now that there’s really no way to get around it.

I don’t have any suggestions because I’m looking for the same thing. I don’t know why it’s so hard to find

[Karin]

Shaylah wrote: "Hey Karin,
I’m totally with you on not wanting to read sex scenes in books. I don’t like them in movies either but they’re so commonplace now that there’s really no way to get around it.

I don’t ..."

I cover my eyes which I also do with much of the violence, even with stuff okay for 14 year olds to watch.

[Karin]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "How did you like Simple?

I also tire of being voyeur, I don’t enjoy reading all the details in the art of lovemaking."

Not as much as I'd hoped, but mostly it's the drinking and extra women for me as I got tired of that. I did love how brilliantly Hughes slipped some observations in, though. 3 stars (my most common number for books I like.)