Black Chick Lit

2017’s been hard. We didn’t make things any better by reading Beloved. We needed some cheering up, so we decided to read Samantha Irby’s darkly funny We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

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As we prep for our first birthday celebration (whoop! whoop!), we asked you what your favorite adaptation of a book was. We share your responses, and also have a really passionate discussion about how everyone has been messing up lately. Listen in!

Thanks to @thisonevanessa, @chanellshorter, @charelliam, @LocPressedBooks, @ellisromance and @Everywoman98 for taking part in this month’s chat!

Don’t forget: We’re celebrating our first birthday with the lovely ladies at @MochaGirlsRead! We’re going to record a special collab episode with them and have a virtual movie night/live Tweet session on Twitter.

We asked you to vote on which book-turned-movie you wanted featured. Your pick? Queen Sugar!  Visit the Mocha Girls Read website, enter the special code and you’ll have a chance to win a copy of Queen Sugar and a $5 Amazon gift card. Thanks, ladies!

Links

• “Getting In and Out,” by Zadie Smith for Harper’s Magazine

We finally did it, y’all. We finally read Beloved, the literary classic we should’ve read in high school. Better late than never, right? And after all that hullabaloo, what did we think of it? It was depressing af.

Join us as we try and figure out if Stamp Paid/Baby Suggs were a Thing, debate if Beloved was a legit ghost and make a special announcement: We’re celebrating our first birthday with special episode and live-tweet movie night with Mocha Girl Reads. Visit us on Twitter to vote on which book will be featured as part of the event.

Then, be sure to subscribe, listen and share your thoughts by tweeting us at @blackchicklit. Read up and tune in for the next episode when we discuss We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, by Samantha Irby.

Links

• “48 Black Writers Protest By Praising Morrison,” The New York Times

We finally did it, y’all. We finally read Beloved, the literary classic we should’ve read in high school. Better late than never, right? And after all that hullabaloo, what did we think of it? It was depressing af.

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It’s confession time: We asked you what book you should have read but haven’t yet. The majority of you all said The Underground Railroad.

But there were more titles. So many more titles. Tune in to hear what else y’all said you need to read on the latest bonus episode of Black Chick Lit.

Thanks to @LocPressedBooks, @BangBangBooks, @Everywoman98, @IamTammiJ, @_Jayla_Rodgers, @MochaGirlReads, @fairlyliterary and @Author_DLWhite.

Got a topic you want us to discuss? Follow us on @blackchicklit and tweet us up!

Join us for the next regular episode when we discuss Beloved, by Toni Morrison.

This is it: Mollie and Dani finally dig into YA. We read the hottest new release in the book world’s hottest genre: The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas.

We loved this novel inspired by the “Black Lives Matter” movement. We’re still not sure how we feel about YA, though. So many teenagers. Get ready as we discuss Tumblr, Tupac and whether or not ’00s kids care about ’90s R&B.

This is it: Mollie and Dani finally dig into YA. We read the hottest new release in the book world’s hottest genre: The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas.

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If anyone asks, we delayed this episode because we knew you’d need something to get you through the travesty that was the ChumpCare vote today.

You’re welcome.

In this episode of the podcast, we wanted to know your first book. What made you the type of person to listen to two strangers talk books on the Internet?

We share rate your responses, make enemies with cab drivers and (somehow) share our first period stories. Trust us, it makes sense in context.

Thanks to @charelliam, @whoaskedash, @havuqtefinished, @prettyjoyful08,  @unicorninkk, @MonaFeesa, @LocPressedBooks and @diancalondon for their contributions!

Got a topic you want us to discuss? Follow us on @blackchicklit and tweet us up!

Join us for the next regular episode when we discuss The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas.

This episode, we switch genres and talk love, sex and awkward adjectives as we discuss Alyssa Cole’s new release, An Extraordinary Union. 

Mollie decides that romance just has too many emotions for her liking while Dani shares her four requirements for a satisfying romance. Listen in and share your thoughts by tweeting us at @blackchicklit. 

• ‘Me Before You’ Criticized For Its Portrayal Of Disability, Huffington Post

• Diary of an Ugly Duckling, by Karyn Langhorne

This episode, we switch genres and talk love, sex and awkward adjectives as we discuss Alyssa Cole’s new release, An Extraordinary Union. 

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