Excited to participate in Get to Work Wednesday/From Books to Action with Sarah at Hardcover Hearts: youtube.com/watch?v=zTCAjP8CaoE&t=45s PLEASE feel free to add resources and suggestions.
SUGGESTIONS: 1 - Focus/identify the area of racial inequity that calls to you: Health, education, housing, policing, mass incarceration, art, environmental justice, voting,
gender, tech, etc.
2. Start small: sign petitions, donate, show up at local meetings 3. Find established, trusted organizations in your area. EXAMPLE:
The Harrisburg First Church of the Brethren hosted an intergenerational zoom study of
BOOKS MENTIONED: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis Building Powerful Community Organizations, by Michael Jacoby Brown (One of his videos: youtube.com/watch?v=Ws58VrYAVuY)
[CC] From Books to Action/Get to Work Wednesdayseriela2020-08-19 | Bonus: Storytime
Excited to participate in Get to Work Wednesday/From Books to Action with Sarah at Hardcover Hearts: youtube.com/watch?v=zTCAjP8CaoE&t=45s PLEASE feel free to add resources and suggestions.
SUGGESTIONS: 1 - Focus/identify the area of racial inequity that calls to you: Health, education, housing, policing, mass incarceration, art, environmental justice, voting,
gender, tech, etc.
2. Start small: sign petitions, donate, show up at local meetings 3. Find established, trusted organizations in your area. EXAMPLE:
The Harrisburg First Church of the Brethren hosted an intergenerational zoom study of
BOOKS MENTIONED: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis Building Powerful Community Organizations, by Michael Jacoby Brown (One of his videos: youtube.com/watch?v=Ws58VrYAVuY)
#FromBookstoAction #PuertoRicoGracias, Maestro Tony Mapeyé. #solidaridadseriela2024-07-07 | El Maestro Tony Mapeyé cerró su participación en el Festival de la Hamaca con un muy pertinente llamado a la justicia y solidaridad.Booktube Prize Octofinal Nonfiction Grp G Final Vlogseriela2023-05-06 | Plus ranking. Finally edited the final vlog upon returning home. The final two books vlogged are: Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo Stay True by Hua Hsu
#booktubeprize #nonfictionBTP Octofinal Grp G Vlog2seriela2023-04-11 | Three more books in Group G.Booktube Prize Octofinal Nonfiction Grp G, Vlog1seriela2023-04-10 | Just one of the books. It took that long.BookMail12nov22seriela2022-11-12 | USPS rocks! Sent myself 4 boxes of books my daughter donated my way and open them to remember what I sent myself! I wasn't expecting them so soon. Channel mentioned: Melanie Martin youtu.be/EFfVzil0L7M Book sleeve info: Monica @dreamingofcelie on Instagram, etsy.me/37Hk7uw Books mentioned: I, Rigoberta Menchú, memoir translated by Ann Wright Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein, MD Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (For my grands:) Thwonk by Joan Bauer Stand Tall by Joan Bauer A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T Gross The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Shame by Salman Rushdie Candide, or , Optimism by Voltaire, translated and edited by Theo Cuffe The Prince by Nicolò Machiavelli, translated by Tim Parks The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Still Life with Rice by Helie Lee Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity From Museums to Beauty Shops by Ginetta E.B. Candelario Song in a Weary Throat: memoir of an American pilgrimage by Pauli Murray Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Wild December by Edna O'Brien The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Brick Lane by Monica Ali Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot Paper-thin Skin by Aigerim Tazhi, translated by J. KatesDelusional Nonfiction Wishlist-TBR, Part2seriela2022-11-04 | Part 2 of the #nonfictionnovember2022, #skoden ad #PuertoRicanHeritage wishlist, aka The Impossible Dream.Delusional Nonfiction Wishlist-TBR, Part 1seriela2022-11-03 | Part One of the #nonfictionnovember2022,#skoden and #PuertoRicanHeritage wishlist.
Channels: Karen at Runwright Reads: youtu.be/sd3_c8XC978 Didi at Brown Girl Reading: youtu.be/mECow8mGHEo Olive at abookolive: youtu.be/A8BkXUnXMgI Kim at Native Lady Book Warrior: youtu.be/qjr-tjVAOZs Books Mentioned: The Price of the Ticket by James BaldwinNon-fiction during Hiatus/2Nov22/[CC]seriela2022-11-02 | No kidding! I read a lot during my hiatus from Booktube, including non-fiction. Before sharing 2022's #nonfictionnovember, #skoden and #puertoricanheritagemonth TBRs, here's what I read on my break. Olive's Nonfiction November 2022 Announcement video: youtu.be/8HG1QL3wN6E Kim's Skoden Readathon 2022 Announcement video: youtu.be/201TWAmCKuk Black Readers Con on Instagram and Youtube, etc. Robert at The Booktube Prize 2022 Winners Announcement video: youtu.be/wN25Tq6nMtY
Books Mentioned: La memoria rota, by Arcadio Díaz Quiñones A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid Gaza in Crisis, by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé Memorias de Bernardo Vega, ed. César Andreu Iglesias Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, by Mary Seacole Strength to Love, by Martin Luther King, Jr. George Eliot: The Last Victorian, by Kathryn Hughes Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter "Gather with the Saints at the River": The Jonestown Guyana Holocaust 1978, by Gordon K. Lewis When the Spirits Dance Mambo, by Marta Moreno Vega Eran ellos, by Heriberto Marín Torres From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawaii, by Haunani Kay Trask The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, by John Hendrix Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentatiob on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington The New Age of Empire: How Racism & Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews Invisibilizadas e innombradas: Cuentos de mujeres puertorriqueñas negras, Rosario Méndez Panedas Che: A Graphic Biography, by Spain Rodríguez Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabet Kolbert Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, by Daniel James Brown Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Radden Keefe Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire, translated by Joan Pinkham Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco Moral Social by Eugenio María de Hostos Once tesis sobre un crimen de 1899 by Arcadio Díaz Quiñones
#nonfictionnovember2022 #skoden #PuertoRicanHeritageMonthBooktube Prize OctofinalsVlog3/Nonfiction Hseriela2022-07-22 | To save time, I ranked the six books as follows: 6. The Amur River by Colin Thurbon 5. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb 4. American Baby by Gabrielle Glaser 3. Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl 2. How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith 1. Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
#BooktubePrize #nonfictionAmur & Graceland/Booktube Prize Octofinal vlog P.2, Nonfiction Grp Hseriela2022-07-21 | Two books that did not pass on to the next round and my reactions: The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South by Margaret Renkl Part I of this vlog: youtu.be/98e2_BvW5js The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb What is the Booktube Prize? youtu.be/fJ7b0I3aVG8
I'm still fiddling with editing. Bear with me, please, while I wrestle with it. Meanwhile feel free to speed up to 1.25 or 1.5 and raise and lower the volume as needed. Much obliged.
#BooktubePrize #nonfictionBooktube Prize Octofinal 22 NonfictionH Dr. Cream Vlogseriela2022-04-14 | First, watch Kazen of Always Doing's vlogs on Group H because this one is my imovie practice. I discuss one of the books that didn't pass to the quarterfinals - no intro, no outro, no music,no dates (February), no nuttin' - but loads and loads of SPOILERS. :P
Book mentioned: The Case of he Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb
#BooktubePrize #octofinal2022 #nonfiction#ReadBannedBooks Colonial Edition [CC]seriela2022-03-01 | Would I ban these Puerto Rican books? Channels and videos mentioned:
#PuertoRicoBook Bujo, What Worked and Didntseriela2022-01-03 | My one dollar Book Bujo served 3 years. What worked? Brief look at the next dollar Book Bujo. Raw edition: no mic, no wardrobe change, no nothing.
#PuertoRico #bookbujo #readingtrackerPuerto Rican Nonfiction Nov21seriela2021-11-20 | For #PuertoRicanHeritageMonth some recs in English and Spanish
Instagramers mentioned: @bookdragon217 for #PuertoRicanHeritageMonth and the tour @BiancaGraulau on all the platforms
Books mentioned (English) Two Lynchings on Cerro Maravilla, by Manuel "Manny" Suarez Signing in Puerto Rican, by Andres Torres Cartas a Karina, Letters from Oscar Lopez Rivera Puerto Rico's Revolt for Independence, El Grito de Lares, by Olga Jimenez de Wagenheim Nationalist Heroines, by Olga Jimenez de Wagenheim The Unsolved Case of Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, An Indictment, by Pedro Aponte Vazquez War Against All Puerto Ricans, by Nelson A. Denis The Esmeralda Santiago trilogy Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm, ed. by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol Lebron (Spanish) Puerto Rico: una interpretación histórico-social, por Manuel Maldonado Denis (also available in English) Los chinos en Puerto Rico, por José Lee-Borges Gilberto: el abogado de la Patria, por varios "PROMESA": Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, por Rolando Emmanuelli Jiménez y Yasmín Colón Colón (or read the Law online in English) La Mordaza, por Ivonne Acosta Lespier La farsa del Estado Libre Asociado, por Vicente Géigel Polanco Mariana Bracety, por Raquel Rosario Rivera La gran ausente: la maestra Celestina Cordero Molina, por Zulmarie Alverio Ramos Pedro Albizu Campos: las llamas de la aurora, por Marisa Rosado Eran ellos, por Heriberto Marín Torres Nos Otros: Voces protagonistas de una trayectoria de filantropía y solidaridad en Puerto Rico, por Miranda Foundation (Lourdes R. Miranda, NOT Lin)
#PuertoRico #PRHeritageMonth #NonfictionNovember2021En Honor, Appendixseriela2021-09-07 | The end of the previous video.En honorseriela2021-09-06 | Paying respect. And some books.
Amy of the channel Amy Gets Lit had her home destroyed by Hurricane Ida. Support her at: paypal.com/paypalme/fnamy
Cara at Wilde Book Garden has a comprehensive list of information and places to donate in the description box in her Tag about Tags video. Check it out and act. youtu.be/rqZ-83bFf_g
#PuertoRicoWhat the haul?! 9Jul21seriela2021-07-09 | I went to Orlando and paid shipping to send myself books.
Hope to visit Mr. Noel again at: Dare Books 245 N US Hwy 17-92 Longwood, Florida 32750 1-407-673-3273
Black Lives Still Matter. Act upon it.Friday Reads, 21May21[CC]seriela2021-05-21 | "Joy is an act of resistance." ********************************************* 🎶🎧Ana Tijoux & Shadia Mansour - "Somos Sur" 🎶🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=fFp4-3XQNnM
🇵🇸Search for "Palestinian aid organizations" and find ways to act in any way you can. "How to help victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict": edition.cnn.com/2021/05/16/world/iyw-how-to-help-israeli-palestinian-victims/index.html 🇨🇴"How to help Colombian protestors": remezcla.com/lists/culture/colombia-protest-information-and-help-guide ✊🏾I suggest Adri's channel. They link a comprehensive list of organizations and resources so we may all do better where we are. youtube.com/watch?v=pe9xBq3f5oI ************************************************************************************* BOOKS MENTIONED: Silas Marner by George Eliot Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore Black Water Rising by Attica Locke Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé Vito Marcantonio y Puerto Rico: Por los trabajadores y por la Nación by Félix Ojeda Reyes Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong The Country Girls by Edna O' Brien A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
#PuertoRico #SolidaridadconPalestina #ReadSoulLit[CC] Friday Reads 30Apr21seriela2021-04-30 | with an April wrap up. ******************************************************************** This has been a brutal month for Black and Brown people, despite the recent conviction. Please seek out grass-roots collectives organizing for the long haul and helping the families of the murdered. ******************************************************************** BOOKS MENTIONED: Catherine the Great and the Small, by Olga Kneževic Red Rosa by Kate Evans The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera The House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferré Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa Adam Bede by George Eliot Vito Marcantonio by Felix Ojeda Reyes Raymond Dalmau by Raymond Dalmau and Hirám Sánchez Martínez Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna These Truths by Jill Lepore
#PuertoRico #TheBooktubePrize #booktubespin2The Moody Book Tagseriela2021-04-21 | With another one of my weird questions. ******************************************************************** It continues to be devastating for Black lives, despite the recent conviction. Please seek out grass-roots collectives organizing for the long haul and helping the families of the murdered. ********************************************************************
Questions: 1. Do you consider yourself a mood reader? 2. Do you set TBR lists and do you stick to them? 3. Do books affect you emotionally? Does the mood of a book rub off on you? 4. When you’re feeling sad, what do you read? (Or do you not read when sad?) 5. Most often, do you use reading to escape, to learn, or to critically reflect? 6. What is a book that made you laugh out loud? 7. What is a book that has made you cry? Or, if you don’t cry, one that really moved you? 8. What is a book that you didn’t even know how you felt about? 9. Are you more likely to read on a sunny day or a cloudy day? 10. Do you usually “set the mood” when you read? Music, lights, smells, etc? 11. Can you leap from book to book or do you need buffer time between them?
#PuertoRico #tagTuesdayDaughters of the Stone, My Subjectively Objective Chat [CC]seriela2021-04-16 | Loving a novel about AFRO-BORICUAS. 🇵🇷 ************************************************ It continues to be devastating for Black lives. Please seek out grass-roots collectives organizing for the long haul and helping the families of the murdered. ************************************************ BOOKS MENTIONED: Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa[[ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
CHANNEL MENTIONED: Didi at Brown Girl Reading's Read Soul Lit Book Club youtube.com/user/frenchiedee Instagram: @readsoullit and @browngirlreading
#PuertoRico #DaughtersoftheStoneAll-in-one 2Apr21seriela2021-04-02 | Giveaway, Update and TWO tags. *********************************************** Adri at Perpetual Pages offers a comprehensive list of resources and organizations actively seeking change. This is the link to the video which includes those links: youtube.com/watch?v=OgmV0... Pa'lante, Adri. ************************************************ For the GIVEAWAY, find the books in this video "Why No Hauls?": youtube.com/watch?v=_q_SPfpudfg&t=6s Either leave me a message on Instagram @seriela.pr or a comment here. First come, first serve.
BOOKS MENTIONED: Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Red Rosa by Kate Evans Adam Bede by George Eliot
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind Fe en disfraz by Mayra Santos Febres The Assassination of Fred Hampton by Jeffrey Haas The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago El Resplandor de Luzbella by Juan López Bauzá Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
The Black Count by Tom Reiss Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
West With The Night by Beryl Markham Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller Raymond Dalmau: From Harlem a Puerto Rico by Raymond Dalmau and Hiram Sanchez Born a Crime by Trevor Noah A Boy Called It by David James Pelzer A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (shown, not mentioned)
Pedro Albizu Campos: Las llamas de la Aurora by Marisa Rosado
El anciano maravilloso by Paul Estrade and Félix Ojeda Reyes No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Part of My Soul Went with Him by Winnie Mandela Hunger by Roxane Gay
#PuertoRico #tagsThe Covid Katchup Tagseriela2021-03-30 | I also tag Marilyn Maya Mendoza, Adriana, Roxanne and Lisa. Links down below. ************************************************* Adri at Perpetual Pages offers a comprehensive list of resources and organizations actively seeking change. This is the link to the video in which they include those links: youtube.com/watch?v=OgmV0... Pa'lante, Adri. ************************************************* The Caribbean Business article on the Covid tests scandal: caribbeanbusiness.com/sources-puerto-rico-govt-hid-real-reason-for-canceling-contract-for-covid-19-tests Bruno Milani, Italian husband on cruise ship, message to Puerto Rico: youtube.com/watch?v=pRFvmVosV3g
BOOKS MENTIONED: The Great Influenza by John M. Barry Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa Heaven My Home by Attica Locke
The House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferré
The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez Red Rosa by Kate Evans
Todo Belascoarán by Paco Ignacio TaiboWhy No Hauls? [CC]seriela2021-03-25 | It's embarrassing. ********************************************* Adri at Perpetual Pages offers a comprehensive list of resources and organizations actively seeking change. This is the link to the video which includes those links: youtube.com/watch?v=OgmV0... Pa'lante, Adri. *********************************************
BOOKS, in order of appearance: Xala by Sembène Ousmane The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein Segu by Maryse Conde The Outrun by Amy Liptrot Native Son by Richard Wright A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton Relato de un náufrago by Gabriel García Márquez La víspera del hombre by René Marqués Teresa Angleró Sepúlveda by Bianca M. Medina Báez "Soy libre": El grito de Agripina, la esclava rebelde de Ponce by Carmelo Rosario Natal Barataria by Juan López Bauzá En pie de lucha: nuevas investigaciones históricas puertorriqueñas, ed. Evelyn Vélez and Carmelo Campos Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, An Oral History by Svetlana Alexievich The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
#PuertoRicoFriday Reads 19Mar21 [CC]seriela2021-03-19 | Books finished, currently reading and tbr ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adri at Perpetual Pages offers a comprehensive list of resources and organizations actively seeking change. This is the link to the video in which they include those links: youtube.com/watch?v=OgmV04E_yjE&t=4s Pa'lante, Adri.
BOOKS MENTIONED: Teresa Angleró Sepúlveda by Bianca Medina These Truths by Jill Lepore Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas Cualquier miércoles soy tuya by Mayra Santos Febres Todo Belascoarán by Paco Ignacio Taibo Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos Figueroa Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez Red Rosa by Kate Evans
#PuertoRicoIntl Womens Day 8Mar21[CC]seriela2021-03-09 | About Afro-Puerto Rican labor organizer Teresa Angleró Sepúlveda, first woman organizer of the Puerto Rican garment workers for the International Garment Workers' Union.
BOOK MENTIONED: Teresa Angleró Sepúlveda by Bianca Medina Baez
#PuertoRico #8MUpdate/Dumb Question/28Feb21 [CC]seriela2021-02-28 | February wrap up and March tbr. For every "wonderful" and "frankly", take a sip of your favorite drink!
BOOKS MENTIONED: Saving Jesus from the Church by Robin Meyers
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography by John Dominic Crossan
San Juan Noir, ed. by Mayra Santos Febres Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot The Assassination of Fred Hampton by Jeffrey Haas
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore Black Power U. S. A. the Human Side of Reconstruction, 1867-1877 by Lerone Bennett Teresa Angleró Sepúlveda: Primera Organizadora de las Trabajadoras de la Industria de la aguja en Puerto Rico by Bianca M. Medina Báez Cualquier miércoles soy tuya by Mayra Santos-Febres Todo Belascoarán by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Red Rosa by Kate Evans The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
PODCAST "LA BREGA": Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/la-brega ************************************************************************** I am convinced now more than ever that Black Lives Matter. Links here for information and resources: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co
#PuertoRico #marchingmammoths2021 #marchmysterymadness2021Update/Rant 7Feb21[CC]seriela2021-02-07 | Gracias Marina. Especially for you.
BOOKS MENTIONED: Soy libre: el grito de Agripina, la esclava rebelde de Ponce by Carmelo Rosario Natal Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Cuba Libre by Tony Perrottet San Juan Noir, edited by Mayra Santos Febres Saving Jesus from the Church by Robin Meyers These Truths by Jill Lepore ************************************************************************** I am convinced now more than ever that Black Lives Matter. Links here for information and resources: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co
- THE QUESTIONS - 1. What is a book everyone should be reading during Black History Month? (give one fiction and one nonfiction title) 2. Which Black booktuber would you recommend watching and why? 3. What is your favorite book written by a Black author from an African country? 4. What is your favorite Black classic? 5. Which movie / book-to-movie-adaptation / documentary would you recommend watching during Black History Month? 6. What’s on your TBR for Black History Month? 7. Which new releases by Black writers are you looking forward to the most this year?
BOOKS MENTIONED: White Rage by Carole Anderson From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde "Soy libre", Agripa, la esclava rebelde de Ponce by Carmelo Rosario Natal Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas Cualquier miércoles soy tuya by Mayra Santos Febres My Mother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem Segu by Maryse Condé Ida B. the Queen by Michelle Duster
Trailer for Judas and the Black Messiah - and discussion - at Democracy Now: youtube.com/watch?v=UXRYL9Ev6IA&t=70s You can definitely find the official trailers without commentary on Youtube.
#TheBlackHistoryMonthBookTag #PuertoRicoThe Booktube Spinseriela2021-01-31 | Analysis paralysis and overthinking almost did me in. "Keep it simple!" I reminded myself, so here are my 5 categories for Rick's delightful event.
BOOKS MENTIONED: PUERTO RICAN NONFICTION - 1.Vito Marcantonio y Puerto Rico, Felix Ojeda Reyes 2. La mafia en Puerto Rico: las caras oscuras del desarrollo, Luis A. López Rojas 3. The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire, Bartholomew H. Sparrow 4. Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, Ed Morales PUERTO RICAN FICTION: 5. La amante de Gardel, Mayra Santos Febres 6. The Battle at Tita's House, David Delgado 7. Falsas crónicas del Sur, Ana Lydia Vega 8. Águila, Reynaldo Marcos Padua BOOKS IN SPANISH: 9. Las venas abiertas de América Latina, Eduardo Galeano 10, El Evangelio según Jesucristo, José Saramago 11. Porque éramos jóvenes, Josefina R. Aldecoa 12. Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo ENGLISH NONFICTION: 13. Black Power U.S.A.: The Human Side of Reconstruction, 1867-1877, Lerone Bennett Jr. 14. The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea 15. Saving Jesus from the Church, Robin R. Meyer 16. The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman ENGLISH FICTION: 17. Freeman, Leonard Pitts, Jr 18. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 19. The Book of Echoes, Rosanna Amaka 20.The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
#BookTubeSpin1 #PuertoRicoThe Booktube Backstage Tag, Ros!seriela2021-01-21 | Aha! I DID do the tag, Ros. 🤣 Gracias.
Donations for Tito Román's documentary, El Diario de un colonizado: PayPal: caseríofilms@gmail.com Venmo: @CaseríoFilms (TEASER) PSYCHE: DIARY OF THE COLONIZED: youtube.com/watch?v=5t2VOj2PwMs
1) What camera do you use for your videos? 2) Speaking about filming and being your own director. Do you have a favorite film director? 3) What microphone do you use and what program do you use to edit your videos? 4) Do you remember the first record that you bought or received as a gift? 5) How do you prepare your videos? Talking points, a detailed script or just talkin¨? 6) TV shows have become the thing of our time. "Game of Thrones", "Stranger Things", Netflix, HBO and Amazon. What is/are your favorite TV shows ever. Name a maximum of three. 7. What kind of booktube videos do you prefer to watch and why: reviews, wrapups, vlogs, bookhauls, tag videos or... 8) Watching TV was probably a part of all of our childhoods. These years, it has become less popular. What kind of media user are you?
Eight props, you can tag up to eight people. ***************************************************************************************
Black lives matter more than ever in 2021 and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co #PuertoRico #tagtuesday2020 Boomer Stats+ PSA+Mini-vlog/13Jan2021 [CC]seriela2021-01-13 | Suggested action, plus OG stats and miscellany.
PSA: @jesscraven101 on tiktok models scripts for calling, emailing, etc. your elected officials - AND corporate donors!
BOOKS MENTIONED: Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino ***********************************************************************************
Black lives matter more than ever in 2021 and will always matter.
#FromBookstoAction #PuertoRicoInterview with Hannah!seriela2021-01-11 | Interview with Hannah Joyner, co-author of Unspeakable, a Work of African-American and Deaf History
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson - Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner: Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson by Susan Burch | Goodreads
Hannah’s BookTube channel, Hannah’s Books: Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson by Susan Burch | Goodreads
Booktubers who took part in the buddy read and in this collaborative video interview:
BOOKS MENTIONED: Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs - When I Was Puerto Rican Almost a Woman The Turkish Lover (translated by Nina Torres-Vidal in El amante turco) Signing in Puerto Rican by Andres Torres Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas Raymond Dalmau: From Harlem a Puerto Rico by Raymond Dalmau and Hiram Sanchez
#PuertoRico16Dec20 Update/Chat [CC}seriela2020-12-16 | Plus biographies and memoirs. Thinking out loud. My Kids Challenge
BOOKS MENTIONED: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot by Gertrude Himmelfarb From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker Thomas Cromwell. A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner Pedro Albizu Campos: Las llamas de la Aurora by Marisa Rosado Mariana Bracety: Una Patriota Que No Claudico by Raquel Rosario Rivera John Adams by David McCullough
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight Part of My Soul Went with Him by Winnie Mandela
Memoirs Of A Korean Queen by Lady Hong No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah Memorias de un patriota encarcelado by Oscar Collazo Cartas a Karina (Letters to Karina) bilingual book by Oscar Lopez Rivera American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It by Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge Raymond Dalmau: From Harlem a Puerto Rico by Raymond Dalmau Pérez and Hiram Sanchez Martinez
NYORICAN BASQUET Youtube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCWgMNqqoz-y9rqiVf2Sdncg/videos ************************************************************************ Black lives continue to matter in December and will always matter.
#PuertoRico[CC] November Blahsseriela2020-12-04 | DNF's?! It's complicated.
BOOKS MENTIONED: Memorias de un patriota encarcelado, by Oscar Collazo Part of My Soul Went With Him, Winnie Mandela Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico: The Cost of Dependence to the American Taxpayer, by Alexander Odishelidze and Arthur Laffer Las venas abiertas de América Latina, by Eduardo Galeano Raymond Dalmau: From Harlem a Puerto Rico by Hiram Sanchez
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson, by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Black lives continue to matter in December and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co #PuertoRico #NonfictionNovember2020The Self-aware Reader Tagseriela2020-11-13 | Not! 🤣 Thanks again to Courtney and Kim for tagging me. Subscribe and follow them at... Courtney Ferriter (The Self-Aware Reader Tag Announcement): youtube.com/watch?v=NNKCHwVxQ2g Kim @ MIDDLE of the Book MARCH: youtube.com/watch?v=5GQb4eZlgD0 BOOKS MENTIONED: The Known World by Edward P. Jones The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck Signing in Puerto Rican by Andres Torres La guaracha del Macho Camacho by Luis Rafael Sanchez Seva by Luis Lopez Nieves El corazón de Voltaire by Luis Lopez Nieves Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse by John Lithgow Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age by John Lithgow La llamarada by Enrique Laguerre Las memorias de un patriota encarcelado by Oscar Collazo Puerto Rico: Una interpretación histórico-social by Manuel Maldonado Denis Mariana Bracetty by Raquel Rosario Rivera La Mordaza by Ivonne Acosta Lespier Las llamas de la aurora: acercamiento a una biografía de Pedro Albizu Campos by Marisa Rosado Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal by Olive Senior Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson Denis The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley La Gran Ausente: la maestra Celestina Cordero Molina by Zulmarie Alverio Ramos The unsolved case of Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads : an indictment by Pedro I Aponte Vázquez The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss Los chinos en Puerto Rico by José Lee Borges Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (My review of The Natural Way of Things: youtube.com/watch?v=XDWpu89_vTE) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Nigerian Booktuber, Noria @ Chronicles of Noria, has this message on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CGt8BlZAO... Njeri addresses the #endsars protests in Nigeria in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpy5... #PuertoRicoNonfiction November 2020 Booksseriela2020-11-01 | In Spanish and English.
BOOKS MENTIONED: Como No Matar Tus Plantas, Veronica Peerless Las venas abiertas de América Latina, by Eduardo Galeano Raymond Dalmau: From Harlem a Puerto Rico, by Hiram Sanchez
Oscar Collazo: Memorias de un patriota encarcelado, by Oscar Collazo Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico: The Cost of Dependence to the American Taxpayer, by Alexander Odishelidze and Arthur Laffer CHANNELS MENTIONED: Hannah @ Hannah's Books: youtube.com/channel/UCoZWZSc556UqWLoAQDNKLhg
Twitter discussions will be held every Tuesday at 7 PM EST, and on three Sunday mornings: November 1st, 15th, and 29th at 12 PM EST.
Our group read will be of The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom (amzn.to/3i6Zlst). We will be reading two chapters per day from November 1st through November 18th. Discussions will happen as we move through the book, but our main chat will happen on the weekend of November 21st-22nd to give everyone some buffer time to finish the book. ******************************************************************************** Black lives continue to matter in November and will always matter.
Nigerian Booktuber, Noria @ Chronicles of Noria, has this message on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CGt8BlZAO... Njeri addresses the #endsars protests in Nigeria in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpy5...
#PuertoRico #NonfictionNovember2020[CC]Weekly Reads 31Oct20seriela2020-11-01 | The books finished this past week and those pending.
BOOKS MENTIONED: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable The Dead Are Rising, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight The Fearless Benjamin Lay, by Marcus Rediker
VIDEOS MENTIONED: The New York Public Library (Schomburg) presentation of The Dead Are Rising, with Tamara Payne and Rev. Calvin O. Butts III:
youtube.com/watch?v=QOCBBWa_I04 Abolitionist Quaker, Benjamin Lay PBS video: youtube.com/watch?v=Rv3v9m6PY6c ************************************************************************* Black lives continue to matter in October and will always matter.
Nigerian Booktuber, Noria @ Chronicles of Noria, has this message on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CGt8BlZAO... Njeri addresses the #endsars protests in Nigeria in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpy5...[CC]Weekly Reads 24Oct20seriela2020-10-24 | Guess what happens at the end? You're right! 🤣 Stay tuned for Part 2 during the week. Links at the bottom for #endsars
BOOKS MENTIONED: El amante turco (The Turkish Lover) by Esmeralda Santiago Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
#PuertoRico #endsars[CC]Friday Reads 9Oct2020seriela2020-10-10 | Books finished and in progress
BOOKS MENTIONED: Given to Fly by J.D. Estrada The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Audiobook narrated by Myron Willis, excellent!) The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago El amante turco (translated into Spanish by Nina Torres Vidal) Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
BOOKS MENTIONED: These Truths by Jill Lepore The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago Daniel Deronda by George Eliot ************************************************ Black lives continue to matter in October and will always matter.
BOOKS MENTIONED: Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck ¿Cómo piensa el colonizado? Vol. 2 by Jesús Ortiz Torres Paradise by Toni Morrison The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo ************************************************ Black lives continued to matter in September and will always matter. Links here for information and resources:
blacklivesmatters.carrd.co Videos that gave me hope: This is how Black Speculative Fiction Empowers, Njeri @ ONYX Pages: From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyE5n... Activist Tamika Mallory on AG Daniel Cameron's decision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrTZM...
#PuertoRicoAugust 2020 Wrap-upseriela2020-10-02 | The books read despite everything. BOOKS MENTIONED: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Jazz by Toni Morrison Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Kindred by Octavia E. Butler The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey CHANNELS MENTIONED: Belinda @ Belinda's Book Nook: youtube.com/channel/UCCGuVegYkRaV3VP2cZkI-iw Hannah @ Hannah's Books: youtube.com/watch?v=4DX-S_AzBSU&t=19s Jason @ Byways in Bookland: youtube.com/watch?v=3jqx_QX90mo&t=66s Njeri @ ONYX Pages, Octavia E. Butler Slow Read: youtube.com/watch?v=QQq0V0HD6ps&t=680s *****************************************************************
Black lives continued to matter in August and will always matter. Links here for information and resources:
The prompts for this tag are: 1. A character that you love fiercely. 2. A character that is heavily flawed but you cannot help but love 3. A character that made you laugh out loud 4. A child character that you like 5. An animal character that you love 6. A strong woman character that you like. 7. A brave character that you admire 8. A character that scares the hell out of you 9. A really mean character 10. A character that you really hate
Books Mentioned: PUERTO RICAN BOOKS: Mayoral by Ramón Edwin Colón Pratts El resplandor de Luzbella by Juan López Bauzá La guaracha del Macho Camacho by Luis Rafael Sánchez Seva by Luis López Nieves La víspera del hombre by René Marqués OTHER BOOKS: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Sula by Toni Morrison Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac The Neverending Story by Michael Ende Cien años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts, Jr. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Don Quixote by Manuel CervantesThe Reading Tastes Tagseriela2020-09-30 | Thanks for the tag, Kazen!
✴️Trevor Noah on Breonna Taylor (NOTE: each Daily Show program offers options for donating, as do other shows) youtube.com/watch?v=ZWBppiSkr1M Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor petition:
Thanks to Tatiana at Musical Tati for the action links: (Check out her intros: youtube.com/watch?v=5ZbmjsqzMTI) BOOKS MENTIONED: ¿Cómo piensa el colonizado? by Jesús Ortiz Torres Two Lynchings on Cerro Maravilla by Manuel "Manny" Suárez Spiks by Pedro Juan Soto Usmaíl by Pedro Juan Soto Ardiente suelo, fría estación by Pedro Juan Soto
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (with Jason of Byways in Bookland: youtube.com/watch?v=3jqx_QX90mo) Kindred by Octavia Butler, A graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings (with buddy Adriana of In Between Pages: youtube.com/channel/UCUOfNJpnY2nvgD9iHwSgUow/videos for the Octavia E. Butler Slow Read hosted by Njeri of Onyx Pages, Tatiana of Musical Tati and Isis of www.sistahscifi. Announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=dhG4mSQFSGY&t=14s ) Jazz by Toni Morrison The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist CHANNELS MENTIONED: Hannah at Hannah's Books: youtube.com/watch?v=4DX-S_AzBSU&t=14s Belinda at Belinda's Book Nook: youtube.com/watch?v=vogi2Ce4tUg
Kindred by Octavia Butler, graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings Longbourne by Jo Baker Barataria by Juan López Bauzá El resplandor de Luzbella by Juan López Bauzá CHANNELS MENTIONED: Hannah at Hannah's Books: