Spring is here, and the smell of fresh new books is in the air! Dive into these books, from fiction and social justice reads to cookbooks, by Black authors this April.
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Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot.
Or a zombie apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse would definitely hit the spot.
As some of you will recall, I gave up those and other literary pleasures a year ago, bidding farewell to the likes of Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Before we knew all the awful things that 2020 would be The Year of Pandemic, The Year of Racial Reckoning, The Year of Endless Election I stood at this podium and put my own stamp on it: 2020 would be The Year of Reading Women, I said. This, after realizing that I, avowed feminist and voracious reader that I am, seldom read female authors that for years, I had been unconsciously but consistently ignoring them.