Thank God for a Book Giveaway, Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice (Day 13)
By APOOO • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: Thank God for a Book Giveaway •
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Quick how many black authors, other than Terry McMillan, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Barack Obama (yeah he considers himself black) can you name? Okay if you’re an avid reader of African-American Literature…probably many…and to help you remember some you might have forgotten…CLICK HERE for a list.
For others, who are just discovering Black authors and African American Literature, whether you be black, white, red, brown, yellow or polka dot (although I hope not), I ask you to consider giving someone a book by a black author this season.
To help encourage you and bring a little smile to your face, check out the video for more details from the program’s founder, Carleen Brice. Oh and if you haven’t read her book, Orange Mint and Honey, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT and am offering a copy as part of this month’s Thank God for a Book Giveaway special. In fact, Orange Mint and Honey is one of my Top Three Favorite books for 2008. To learn more about Carleen Brice, CLICK HERE. To find out what APOOO reviewer, Dera Williams thought about Orange Mint and Honey, CLICK HERE.
Oh yeah and, if you’re new to APOOO or unfamiliar with African American authors, you can CLICK HERE to start to get to know some of them better and find out what books are highlighted from some of the most popular authors of African-American literature.
Okay so, if you like what you read and heard, go ahead and take a chance. Enter today for a chance to win a copy.
Now, how TO ENTER TO WIN.
If you would like to win a copy of Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice, leave a comment on this post, along with your email address, by midnight EST, Sunday, December 7th. You can increase your chances of winning, by entering more than one comment, but each additional comment must be meaningful and different. Also, if you post about this giveaway on your own blog and link back to APOOO, you get two more entry points. This contest is open to US and Canadian residents. I will use random.org to choose the winner. The winner will only be notified via the Web site, so you will need to come back to the Web site to see if you have won. The winner will be announced on Monday, December 8.
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I have had this on my list. I think I saw Yasmin saying she liked it somewhere. Sounds like a good story.
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This is a book I think I would love to try. Love the video. I was watching it like, hmmm…How many non blacks have I ever seen in the black section ofthe book store. I have one nonblack friend who reads African American Authors, but, she is married to a black man and more open minded. I have to say my other nonblack friends who read just look at my books and say oh, ok…like they do not know what to say.
Lashonda I hear you about non-blacks not knowing what to say…but I’m hoping that just as I can be open about reading books by white authors…some of my white friends and book bloggers will be open about reading our books. I know several who were and we had a wonderful discussion centered around Going Down South by Bonnie Glover…we do have good reads that are universal and timeless that will appeal to almost any audience…not its up to us…the black readers…to tell non-black readers about our authors.
I believe this book was at the top of APOOO’s favorites of 2008.
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I saw this book featured on one of Ballantine’s newsletters and thought it looked wonderful. I have to admit that I haven’t read a lot of black authors this year, but I did enjoy Going Down South by Bonnie Glover.
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I have heard great things about this book. I’d love to win it.
You don’t say what to do to win, but I am assuming a comment is in order. I love the title and the cover picture, and I love books about mother-daughter baggage, so I would love to win!
You know, this may sounds bad, but I don’t pay attention to the color of the author-if the book sounds good to me I want to read it. I am open to reading many different things and even those I wouldn’t have previously-to me that’s what reading is about-experiencing new things. I’ve seen many good books on your site Yasmin and I think it’s great to be introduced to so many new authors. Like this one, it sounds wonderful and I’d love to win a copy.
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Because you’ve spoken so highly of this book, and because Ms. Brice has the coolest website out right now, inviting folks to give Black books to white people, I’m intrigued and would love to read this one.
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Yes, I’d love to win this book. However, I have a bone to pick with the title African American literature.
African American literature is a genre that is as broad and all encompassing as any. Books can be anything from erotica to science fiction and they’ll still fall under the same African American literature title. We don’t call Harlequin Romance novels and literary fiction white fiction and leave it at that.
Why do they have to be black books?
Can’t they just be books?
What is a book that I wright considered? I am half white and half black.
Lydia,
I totally get what you are saying. I always used to object that there was a “black history month” instead of it always being part of history, and I turned down a job teaching “women’s studies” for an analogous reason. But (being way older now and looking back) I think that those areas simply don’t *get* included in the white male oeuvre (except for occasional exceptions that “prove” to the majority it does not discriminate) but they still deserve attention somehow! So I guess my conclusion is that, in my opinion anyway, “for now” they can’t be just books!
Are you familiar with the writer/artist Faith Ringgold? She has a wonderful book posted on her blog site, “How the People Became Color Blind.” The address is http://faithringgold.blogspot.com/2007/01/appearances.html
For better or worse, good or evil, marketing tends to categorize everything into little niche groups. So we have AA liteature, AA women’s lit, American Indian lit, Latin American lit, now I even saw a Mexican American lit section in a larger store. So what does the future hold out for us if they keep breaking it all down into micro-organisms. Will we have the: AA Eductated Folks Section and the AA Folks Who Need Pictures Section, AA Books without Sex and Cussin’, AA Books with Lots of Sex and Cussin’? God help us all.
Okay, I reposted on my blog. http://www.urbanchristianfictiontoday.com
That’s three points. Can you tell I really want to win?
LOL and yes Rhonda I can tell you really want to win and you got those three points!