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Tourists were always asking her directions in their native tongue. She could have been Italian, Indian, Dominican. The list went on and on. But she was black. I think. She never explicitly said, and there wasn’t a single family photo to be
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“she was a woman, and women know that babies and husbands and sick parents can derail your dreams, at any moment they can drag you from your bed, they can forestall your career, they can lift you from your prized seat at Wimbledon from a match later described as “epic.” She”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
“fucked her when she was too out of it to consent, but that was before consent got fashionable. Those kinds of incidents used to be considered “funny.” Even “hilarious.” The worse you felt, the louder you laughed. The laughter was necessary because it put you back in charge. You didn’t remember, so you created a memory you hoped was the truth.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“Sometimes it is the most vital thing in the world to be selfish...I don't see what use we can be to others if we must deny our own most fundamental selves. We all have the right to be recognized for who we are.”
― A Lady for a Duke
― A Lady for a Duke
“Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out. He never stopped loving her, even those times when he felt deeply hurt and betrayed by her, even in that bad year when they talked about separating, he’d just gone along with it, waiting for her to come back to him, thanking God and his dad up above each time she did.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon
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— last activity Mar 17, 2026 12:10PM
Our next readathon will be April 18-19, 2026. We'll start reading at 8am Eastern Time April 18th, and end at 8am April 19th.. ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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— last activity Mar 17, 2026 01:16PM
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Writers of Color Book Club
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— last activity Jan 04, 2025 10:10AM
Here we'll be reading books by Black, Indigenous, and other authors of color in an effort to diversify our reading habits. Welcome and enjoy! ...more
Horror Spotlight
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— last activity Mar 20, 2023 07:29AM
We read diverse horror. Our readalongs take place on our discord server each month.
#ReadSoulLit Read Along- Tar Baby
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— last activity Mar 16, 2018 09:30AM
This group is reading and discussing Tar Baby as a read along in honor of Black History Month!
Sicily ’s 2025 Year in Books
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