#brown girl dreaming

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || February 23 || Black Girl Magic:  Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

[light-of-dove]

“More than a hundred years,” my grandfather says, “and we’re still fighting for the free life we’re supposed to be living.”

Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson

[just0nemorepage]

Brown Girl Dreaming || Jacqueline Woodson || 337 pages ------------------------------------------------------ Top 3 Genres: Poetry / Memoir / Non-Fiction

Synopsis: Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.

Finished: July 10th, 2022.

2022 Reading Progress: 3 books read.

My Rating: ★★★★★. [5/5]

My Review: [Under the read more - NOT SPOILER FREE]

That was so good! I really enjoyed that one!

I feel like the author’s childhood was captured perfectly, and so was the passing of time as she grew up. I also love how clearly you could tell that it was about a black child and a black family – how different things are, and how young you are when you’re exposed to injustices, but at the same time, how things really aren’t that different at all to any other childhood.

I especially love how the author became focused on the fight for social justice from a young age, and no one tried to stop it, to temper her rage, or to defang the fight of the equal rights movement going on in that era – particularly the Black Panthers. The only issue I have is right at the end, Jacqueline said she “believes in non-violence,” but if you support the Black Panthers or any kind of real change or real revolution… “non-violence” sort of directly contradicts those exact things. I know this is about a real person and her real life and her real beliefs, but it seems to me like this real person still has some liberal quirks to work through.

Other than that though, this was beautiful! It was so good and so easy to read, I grew to love the family members alongside young Jacqueline, and I find myself wishing the book extended into more of her life as an older child, as a teenager, maybe even into her adult years. Everything was captured so well and felt so real, and while I know I could’ve read this much faster than I did, I’m still glad I took time to really feel the feelings and experience everything as it was meant to.

It’s particularly hard to write coherent thoughts at the moment, the spoons just aren’t there. But just know this – this book deserves better than what my brain can give it. I can only imagine how perfect of a book this would be for kids to read in school or for fun!

[bookcoversaroundtheworld]

Brown Girl Dreaming - Sweden

[pinkiepilum]

Let me die in his arms. Let me make him taste the pleasure, the strong feeling of having killed me little by little.

[craigfernandez]

[lanasangelsblog]

doe girlie

[murdrdocs]

i spend a lot of time thinking about sucking hobie off ... (gn!reader but mention of lip gloss)

like there's a little bit of a free use element there on his side, because he knows how insatiable you are when it comes to him. lots of the time, he just has to look at you, and he'll see that shine in your eyes, he notices how your gaze focuses more so on the strip of visible skin between his worn in shirt and his low jeans. he jokes that you're drooling, and you believe it, thumb swiping at the corner of your lip to pick up nothing but lip gloss.

you don't even have to ask, even if you did he would say yes. but hobie beckons you over, a tilt of his head, a low murmur of "c'mere", and then you're kneeling on the floor between his legs, trying to be patient even though your hands are fisting the fabric of your pants and your top row of teeth are gnawing on your bottom lip.

he unbuttons his jeans and pulls the zipper down, then his hands are at his side and he lets you do the rest. hobie watches as you pull his jeans down a little, then his boxers, cock springing free and your eyes getting just a bit wider in reaction.

sometimes you'll prolong it a little, wrap your hand around the base of him, kiss around the tip, kitten lick the tip a few times before widening your mouth enough to start to take him in, little by little. other times –– most times –– you're so horny, and so eager, that the wet heat of your mouth engulfs hobie without much teasing, a low, almost astonished, hiss leaving his lips as he watches you take as much as you can in one go.

he always encourages you, big, rough hands cupping your cheeks, or stroking your hair. the pad of his thumb running under your eye to catch leaking tears or wipe them away, doing the same under your lips to clean up the drool that's actually there this time.

it's a relationship that works extremely well. driven by your constant need to have the weight of hobie's dick pressed against your tongue, and taste the tang of his cum when it slides down your throat, and hobie's love for having his lover on their knees for him, giving the best head he'll ever get just for the joy of it.

[inmyperfectworld]

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐚𝐲 "𝐈 𝐝𝐨". 💒💍

[svdaily]

[blackbeautiesglobal]

Irene The Dream

[just0nemorepage]

Brown Girl Dreaming || Jacqueline Woodson || 337 pages ------------------------------------------------------ Top 3 Genres: Poetry / Memoir / Non-Fiction

Synopsis: Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.

Started: June 3rd, 2022.

[bookcoversaroundtheworld]

Brown Girl Dreaming - Russia

[pinkiepilum]

Let me be the girl whose innocence he stole. Let me watch as he takes away my young girlhood and leaves and unloved woman in her place.

[andysorbit]

hyuckie x fem reader with brown skin

no but Hyuckie would definitely be the type to come up behind you and press his cheek to yours while you're primping in the mirror and say "my skin tone and your skin tone make the perfect color combination"

he'd also be the type to make you watch him fuck you in front of that mirror and bring a hand up to circle around your throat and whisper "love your pretty skin... love seeing it with mine... look at us"