📕Brown Girl Dreaming
🖊Geraldine Brooks
🎥Bottle Shock
🎤Garth Brooks (no relation!)
🎶Butterflies and Hurricanes (Muse)
#manicmonday #letterB
CBee Thanks for playing 😊😊 1d
TrishB Butterflies and Hurricanes ❤️ what a song! 1d
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Brown Girl Dreaming | 
📕Brown Girl Dreaming
🖊Geraldine Brooks
🎥Bottle Shock
🎤Garth Brooks (no relation!)
🎶Butterflies and Hurricanes (Muse)
#manicmonday #letterB
Slowly but surely I‘m catching up with #letterb of the #alphabetgame
This book is especially good on audio.
#chelseaclinton spoke with/ interviewed #jacquelinewoodson about being a female brown author on her podcast #infact
#WeekendReads
1. Poetry: brown girl dreaming, Print/NF: Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellman, Audiobook: Stand-In by Lily Chu; about to start City of Girls via eBook.
2. Longest book so far: They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple, 455 pages
3. All the stories in collection Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
@rachelsbrittain
This image is my “Poetry Bookmark”. In some ways, it is my Coronavirus Journey Log. What you see is every poetry collection I have made my way through, a poem every day, since 1/1/2020. I am shocked and/or humbled that I have touched this slip every day for 800 days. (I looked it up.) 😳
I started the tagged book today.
#poetry #poetrymatters #readict
pickInitially, the style of this memoir felt disjointed to me, but once I got used to it, I started to appreciate how much like memory the words flow. Woodson takes us from the innocence of youth, where everything feels like it will be okay, even the scary things, into the years when it begins to become clear that adults don't necessarily have all the answers or best guidance, and when Woodson starts to develop her identity as a writer.
My little avocado tree was my view while reading the tagged book today. It takes some imagination to put myself in South Carolina or in Brooklyn on a SoCal day like today, but I'm enjoying the book.
#newbeginnings #dream
This does not quite fit the prompt, but it was the first book that popped in my head-🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#12booksof21 #12booksof2021
May:
I‘ll always remember this book as the one I read while waiting for my post vaccination fevers to go away. This one just took me away to another world.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I read this memoir in verse for a class, and I greatly enjoyed it! Woodson has a way with words that I admire.
pickFit a short audiobook in before the end of August. Loved this story told in verse. Read by Woodson. Her story of her childhood & the beginnings of her interest in writing.
pickNeeded to post the review for my final May read. I finished right before I fell asleep, spurred along by the #authoramonth challenge. So glad that I did!
I loved the lyrical format. It created a dreamlike feeling for this autobiographical work. Quick read. Haunting. Hopeful. My heart was touched by Jackie‘s story.
So happy for her success!
@Soubhiville
I did manage to read three of Jacqueline Woodson‘s books for #authoramonth ! #AAMJW #jacquelinewoodson @Soubhiville
That time I met Jacqueline Woodson: she was so kind and friendly! This was at 2015 ALA, when she was being celebrated for so many awards for Brown Girl Dreaming! I‘ve also seen her speak a couple times since then, and she is so inspiring! #AuthorAMonth #AAMJW
pickHad it not been for #AuthorAMonth I likely wouldn't have picked this up, but it was a swift moving and interesting glimpse into the author's childhood in the 1960s and '70s. A memoir in verse, Woodson tells about her family's brief time in Ohio, then the years in South Carolina before moving up to New York City. Each short poem gives a few words about a person, place, thing, or feeling and though it is low on a continuous narrative, ⬇️
so-soNot my fave of hers but still presented in an interesting way — separate poems outlining her early life between South Carolina & New York.
pick#AuthorAMonth Woodson tells the story of her growing up in verse.The rich details & the beauty of the writing made me pause & re-read.Woodson writes elegantly of day to day life , struggles & joys, wisdom of family members determined to have a decent life. I really enjoyed the contrast of the family‘s life in the south vs.NYC. You get such a feeling for the times , songs that were popular & the rise of civil rights movements.A rewarding read !
pickThis was lovely ♥️ how does she say so much in so few words.
Excellent. #authoramonth
pickI like that Woodson decided to write her memoir not in the typical way but rather in verse. I found the story of her childhood and family fascinating and engaging. Woodson is such a gifted writer who is able to write across age ranges and in various formats, something not all writers can do. #AuthorAMonth #NutsInMay
I'm posting one book per day from the ever growing unread stacks in my personal library. No description or explanation, just books I own and plan to read. #tbr
Day 77
pickNeeded a short break from Far From the Tree, so I picked up this fantastic #audiobook memoir.
Woodson tells the story of her childhood from her birth & parents divorce in Ohio to her young childhood in rural South Carolina with her grandparents while her mother tried to establish a place in Brooklyn to her family‘s eventual settlement there. Through poetic prose she writes of teachers who pointed her to writing and growing up a Jehovah‘s Witness.
pickThis memoir in verse was amazing. What took me so long to read a book by Jacqueline Woodson. #AuthorAMonth2021
pickMy two favorite things about this #audiobook are that it's autobiography in verse and it's read by the author.
#AuthorAMonth with @Soubhiville
#BookSpinBingo free space
@TheAromaofBooks
pickA memoir in verse, Brown Girl describes Woodson‘s childhood, relationships, and the turmoil of the 1960s and 70s. Audiobook read by author
#bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
#authoramonth2021 @Soubhiville
pickExcellent book about the author‘s childhood and family. While it‘s written in prose, don‘t let that deter you. It reads beautifully. There is a reason it won so many awards.
#authoramonth @Soubhiville
pickNational Bk Award Winner, Newbery Medal Award, & NAACP Award for Outstanding Literature, P/LC/RA/Memoir, an exquisite metaphorical verse Woodson weaves, a patchwork of her life experiences. From her supportive, loving maternal grandparents, her mother's insistence on good grammar, to the lifetime friend she meets in NY, that covers readers with warmth & sensitivity no child should miss. NY Times bestseller, an addition for a classroom library.
pickThis B, Newberry Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, National Book Award, and New York Nest Time Seller book, Brown Girl Dreaming is about the childhood biography of Jacqueline Woodson. The book tells the story of Jaqueline and her family how they struggled through the Civil Rights movement and how Jaqueline's mom had to move multiple times to find what was best for her kids. Jaqueline's struggle for writing pushes her to become a writer.
🐣This was a toughie but Woodson is such a beautiful writer!
🐣 I don‘t mind reading outdoors as long as the pollen isn‘t a factor! But usually, I stay indoors with the windows open.
🐣 I‘m doing #bookspinbingo
Thanks for the tag @Klou 😊
If you want to play, consider yourself tagged! 🤗
pickI so love Woodson‘s style of writing and this memoir told in poems did not disappoint! She‘s just a beautiful writer!
#bookspin
#booked2021 - poetry or written in verse
#pop21 - book with a family tree
pickThere is so much to love in this collection. It paints a picture of the joys and heartaches of life, from the POV of a sweet, creative child. I feel like I highlighted half of it. I just wanted to remember and share the whole thing. I love that this is a biography in poetry. It was such a joy to read. This is definitely getting read again.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
The writer‘s hide away. I‘m trying to think of where I used to go to write.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
I like this, too. There is just something about it.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
This reminds me of when my favourite music teacher tried to get me to actually observe the full rest by telling me the music was in the silences.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
That amazing moment when you discover you‘re actually good at something.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
I love that she‘s finding herself, and even getting her teacher to see her as someone with different talents from her sister.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
I love this, imitating, learning from, and now comparing to Langston Hughes.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
I can‘t tell if she‘s more or less excited about starting 4th grade than I was. It‘s probably more, though. I set the bar quite low.
#JacquelineWoodson #BrownGirlDreaming #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit
