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It wasn’t until they got a little older that Father started taking an interest. And by “taking an interest,” Max meant destroying toys of Seb’s he deemed too feminine. Or seizing an apple strudel Seb had helped the cook make and hurling it
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“Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle

“If you believed in the holy circulation of envelopes, everything that went down happened because a man took an envelope and didn’t do his job. An envelope is an envelope. Disrespect the order and the whole system breaks down.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
“Does it count as staying if leaving is always on the mind? How much lying does a marriage need to survive?”
― Sign Here
― Sign Here

“Black people always found a way in the most miserable circumstances. If we didn't, we'd have been exterminated by the white man long ago.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle

“Patriarchy wants to control vaginas, but it also wants to control who has the right to even say the word “vagina.” Not only that, patriarchy screams “decorum” when we dare to fight back.”
― The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
― The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The next challenge begins January 2 ...more

A Goodreads Group for OBMs We will begin the discussion of January's book, Invisible Women, the first week of February. If anyone would like help a ...more

For all fans and writers of chick lit, especially those interested in seeing where this genre is going.

Debut novelist Heidi Durrow answers your questions and responds to your posts about her novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books) which ...more

On the book site Shelfari, there is a person whose life goal is to read 1,000,000 (million) pages! We thought that it would be fun to have this goal h ...more
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