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The Holiday (2006)

7.6 (30 Ratings) Rate It

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Two unlucky-in-love women swap houses across the globe to have some time on their own at Christmas....

Zackary Drucker recommended Another Country in Books (curated)

Another Country

James Baldwin, Colm Toibin | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry

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"Baldwin’s grand novel, Another Country, delivers beatnik-era 1950s, with characters who are on all sides of black, white, gay and straight, twisting complex lives into a magical taffy of perfection. By humanizing the bourgeoning civil rights movement and changing attitudes towards women, Baldwin creates a historical portrait of America that is a great key to understanding where we come from."

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The Woman Next Door

Yewande Omotoso

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Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful...

Alice Walker recommended Loving Her in Books (curated)

Loving Her

Anne Allen Shockley | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+

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"To my knowledge, Loving Her is the first novel about an interracial lesbian relationship written by a black woman. Viewed as an artistic work, I think the novel fails. But in its exploration of a daring subject boldly shared (and written by a librarian at Fisk University) I think it has immense value. It enables us to see and understand, perhaps for the first time, the choices certain women have made about how they will live their lives, and allows us glimpses at physical intimacies between women that have been, in the past, deliberately ridiculed or obscured."

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Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz

Cecile Revauger

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When the first Masonic lodges opened in Paris in the early 18th century their membership included...

Deadly Shadows (Deadly, #1)

Jaycee Clark

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A small, friendly Colorado town, nestled in the breathtaking Rockies, cloaks a malevolence, an evil...

Twins of Evil (1971)

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A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of...

ClareR (5603 KP) rated Manifesto: On Never Giving Up in Books

Jan 24, 2022

I don’t know what I expected from this book, but it exceeded my expectations. It was fascinating and Evaristo really shares a lot of herself: her triumphs, her failures, her good and bad relationships. She tells us about the lesbian relationships she had through her 20’s, and talks of her relationship and marriage with her husband. Her determination to run theatre companies with and for black women, telling black womens stories.
But it’s her perseverance that stays with me well after I’ve finished the book. She really didn’t give up, no matter the circumstances.
This is well worth reading.