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#SpringSkies Day 11: #CvrWithObscuredFace #CoverWithObscuredFace - hope to get to this book this year 🤞🏽

A lovely book…it wasn‘t what I expected, but in a good way.

Really interesting book about McBride's life as well as his Mom's life. This book was recommended to me and I'm glad I read it.

This was interesting. Mcbride's mother was a Jewish woman who married a Black Christian minister and had 12 children (her husband died and she married again). This is a soft pick for me as I really wanted something deeper from the story. The POV alternates between McBride and his mother, and while it encompasses many years and views I think I would have been more tuned into just her story. Her abortion at 14 in 1937, raising 12 mixed race kids

Wonderful. James McBride had a black father who died before he was born, and a white Jewish mother, along with 11 mixed-race siblings. This is his and her stories. We get life, race, identity, growing up Jewish in Virginia in the 1930‘s, and losing that life.

This is special and well done. I finished thinking this is the best book I've ever listened to. I mean, it's not, but you know that feeling. It's really that good.

I‘m really enjoying my current listen.

I had a lot of trouble selecting my next audiobook, but I immediately was smitten with this. And it‘s gotten better. James is the son of mixed race parents, and talks about his growing up black in Queens with his Jewish immigrant mother, and about her life before he was born.

The literally mean of the book (the color of water a black man‘s tribute to his white mother) is about a black man as a child telling his story as a young boy and how he know his mother was different.

Denotation- PRIVACY it‘s no other way u can put this it means what it means

Connotation- of a ANGRY African-American students #Angry is a emotion and a feeling

I loved this book. The experience between his Mom and the author made this book.

Wow. What can I say about this other that.. wow. Thank you again @KaylaD for gifting this to me so long ago. It was a joy! I thought it would take me a while to read because its not my usual genre (memoir) but... I fell into it really intensely!

Great great great!
#BookSpin #BookSpinBingo
@TheAromaOfBooks

Cracked open this @BookSpin book yesterday. It's pretty intense so far. I feel like this is good but it might be a little bit of a “longer“ read for me as it is emotional .. Thank you again @KaylaD for this gift (so long ago and I am barely getting to it!)

Read this for my school book club, and really enjoyed it. It‘s a complex, heartbreaking and hopeful story of James McBride and his mother. Discuses not only an interracial marriage in the 30s/40s but also his mother‘s relationship with religion.

Again I will put myself out there and say James McBride may be the Hemingway/Baldwin/Salinger of our time. This is Not Deacon King Kong, which just goes to show the depth of his writing. It is an autobiographical tribute to his Jewish Mother and all the abuse that she received from, well just about everyone. It‘s about her resilience and her ability to triumph. If you don‘t cry by the end of this then you should take a one way trip to Mars.

A parent/child memoir told in alternating parts between James and his mother Ruth. I'm in awe of Ruth. I would never have made it past that terrible childhood, much less been able to raise 12 mixed-race children in poverty starting in the 1940s (all of whom became sort of ridiculously educated and successful adults). A remarkable story written remarkably.

(quarantine book #91; read a parent/child memoir)

My #booked2020 #spring tally sheet! I missed #tartannoir, but got the other 5. Favorite read is the tagged book.

Hey, #OverBookedClub #MonthofMemoirs friends and all others. James McBride‘s memoir tribute to his mom is a #kindledeal today. I must have read this pre-2008 when I started using Goodreads, but I still think of and recommend it often. Check it out.

This is one from the bottom of my TBR pile! My mom has given it to me to read years ago, after my grandmother had given it to her. And so fitting, as this #memoirofparentandchild tells the story of one black man getting to know his white/Jewish mother‘s life story as an adult. I am in awe of her and her children; they are a testament to her for sure. #booked2020 #bbrc #yeahbaby #bookswap #readmyowndamnbooks

3.Thanks for the tag @ElizaMarie I know it‘s already Friday... 1. This is a favorite book and a favorite memoir... thought of it because of the brief discussion on @CrowCAH ‘s page and I buy it whenever I see a used copy so I can give it to someone.
2. Hellebores
1. 50‘s with wind and rain

I just love this book and it‘s author. Kindle book on sale today for $1.99.

#SeptemberSins One of the MOST compelling memoirs I ever read. James McBride is the child, one of 12 born to a white Jewish mother and a black Christian father. In the veins of Jeanette Walls and Tara Westover, McBride offers an intimate and unforgettable account of what it feels like growing up not recognized as #BlackOrWhite 😢High praise for both writing and storytelling and EXTRA shoutout to James‘s mom for doing the best she could.

I have no idea how I've missed this book for so long - I'm in my 40's and this was published when I was in high school!

What a story. What a lady. Go read it.

⭐⭐⭐⭐✨/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A book written by a musician - #pop19
A book about a family - #pop19

On the tail end of a chest cold, so I'm pretty zapped - thankful that there wasn't much to do today. My daughter's cat, Rose, always seems to find me & curl up in the crook of my legs when I'm reading in bed.

This memoir by the son of a black man & an Orthodox Jewish woman is riveting. My husband & I are as WASP as they come, so I can't pretend to understand what she went through. Regardless, I can't put it down. #currentread #currentlyreading

Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! As a biracial girl living in a similar world as McBride, I could real are so deeply to the words. But the wonderful thing about the book is that you don‘t even have to be like McBride to understand what it feels like to not feel like you belong or that life sometimes is working against you. And his mother is soooo AWESOME!!!

Excited to start this one for book club!

This was my first James McBride many years ago and I‘ve loved everything else he‘s written since.

#water #sprinvgintoreading

I saw this on the library‘s Black History Month display table but just finished it today. (It works for Women‘s History Month too, though.) It is so good. My son has a white mother and Chinese father, rather than a Black father, but I tend to be drawn to memoirs of mixed race children. Not that my son‘s life is anything like the author‘s. He‘s an only child and not one of 12 for starters. But this is a good read for everyone.

This is such a cool idea! #ibelieveinbookfaries

Yes.

I love when a teacher requests a class set of this gem. Lots and lots of invaluable lessons in this book 💎😍🤗

Kindle deal 🎉 I read this years ago but remember it as very moving.

If you have not read this, you should. Kindle edition is $1.99 right now.

My current #audiobooks on loan on #Overdrive. I'm addicted, and have one going all the time. I may also have three baskets of audio books in CD from the friends of the library sale...oops, I got a little carried away.
#Riotgrams
@bookriot

The story of the white, mostly penniless lady who brought up her 12 black children to college educations and beyond is nothing short of remarkable. Many will find inspiration in her Christianity, I'm sure. I don't think I like the author very much; when he talks about himself rather than the Mom, the interest meter dips a lot. I don't think the presentation did justice to the underlying facts and facets of the remarkable story.

After being “on duty” on a Sunday from 830 am to 430 pm for my teacher-training institute‘s PostGraduate Fair, super late lunch and early dinner with my loves who make everything worthwhile: garlic snowing pizza, gorgonzola pizza with bleu cheese, and garlicholic rice (with garlic chips and bacon) - and yes one of the loveliest memoirs about mothers in the tagged book which I can not wait to read.

#ReadingResolutions Day 1: Here is my #MayTBR - top 3 are for my virtual book clubs, some of the titles are not known to me yet, Cutting For Stone is for #ReadAroundTheWorld and #LitWorld2018GB - #Ethiopia, the Henrietta Lacks is for my IRL book club, and tagged book is for our current reading theme on memoirs.

This is a must read...a very interesting account of race, family...etc.

Great book! I enjoyed the set up. You hear mom's side of the story and it is written in italics. I didn't think I was going to like this book, but I couldn't put it down.

Some students were turning these books back into the library earlier this week. I put a copy off to the side and have been reading it when I get a bit of down time throughout the day. I loved it when I read it in college but couldn't remember why. Rereading it now, I completely see why.

One of my favorite books of all time! Have not seen in bookstore for years! Amazing biography and tribute. James McBride is so talented!

1. Too many...TGIF, SNICK, Saturday mornings on NBC...these were filled with shows I loved as a not quite tween.
2. I read the tagged memoir years ago and remember being moved...would love to reread.
3. Steak 🥩
4. My first book club meeting for the year! 📖
5. @Shenanakins - this is a fun way to get to know fellow Littens! 🤗
#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

Honestly, it's paradigm that makes you think about the serverity that race plays into any individual's life. Is it easy to raise Black children in a world of hate? It's beautifully written.💧

Here's what I found at the Library book sale! $4.65! #bookhaul #lovealibrarybooksale #thebookgodswerelookingoutforme

#SummerReading #TeachersOfLitsy

This is a pretty good read. #BlackOrWhite #90sInJuly

Revisiting

#ReadSoulLit Photo Challenge
Day 23 - Oldest on Your TBR!
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THE COLOR OF WATER has been on my to read list for over 5 years. I've heard so many great things about this book and need to find the time to read it. ⠀

#spinesvines #thecolorofwater #blackhistorymonth

I had some downtime at work tonight and finished this book. I so enjoy a good memoir. And the man my grandson was named after just happened to be mentioned!

I know this one isn't exactly #blackhistory, but I think it's an important look at race and religion. You can see how many times my copy has been read. #riotgrams @bookriot @Liberty

The color of water was my "person of color memoir" book. I really enjoyed the audiobook. #litseyreadingchallenge

Day 92: "I asked her if I was black or white. She replied 'You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!'" #shoes by #bamboo from #modcloth