Leslie-Ann Murray

Founder: Brown Girl Book Lover + Fiction Writer

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So, I'm sitting in the front row listening to Salamishah ask Dr. Alexander these thought-provoking beautiful questions, and I slightly turn to my left side, and guess who is sitting there listening intently? Joyce Carol Oates!

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@BBoParis @GinaMurrell1 Same here! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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@GinaMurrell1 Hey! Reach out to me re:apartment! Thanks for putting this in my radar! @BBoParis

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A few months ago, I got to interview  Vauhini Vara about her book, The Immortal King Rao! I loved @vauhinivara Vauhini's mind and truly enjoyed our interview! Check out the interview on our YouTube page!

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@CateSevilla Hey there! I’m a freelance writer and book reviewer! I recently published a review for @pshares I would like to learn more!

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My life is complete! I have met one of my fellow worrying heroes! @jelani9

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Tomi Obaro’s debut novel, DELE WEDS DESTINY, follows three young Nigerian friends—Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab—who face many unexpected turns in their post-college lives, and explores how their friendships see them through this turbulence. https://t.co/vHyxCDobp0

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@pshares @TomiObaro @AAKnopf Yeah!! Check out my book review!

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Wondering what to read during AAPI Heritage Month?

Check out Brown Girl Book Lover's Top Picks:

@vauhinivara
Arundhati Roy
The Memory Police | Yoko Ogawa
@mjmichellekim
@originalspin

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@astrahousebooks @nas009 Thanks for sharing! 😍😍🥰🥰🥰

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ICYMI, @BGBookLover interviewed @nas009, author of THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN! Watch the full interview now ⬇️✨ https://t.co/5jfioUJgGO

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@spikedspin HEY! I forgot my cell phone at spike today! Can you help me out. Is there someone who lives close by that I can pick up and drop back. I really need my phone!

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Check out: My Book Review! @pshares

https://t.co/xLQef9aXHJ

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Construction.

✨Awakening is hard, but it’s a beautiful process.✨

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We are in a literary renaissance, but what does this really mean? It’s not only about Black writers and WOC being published. This renaissance is about language. Black writers and writers of color are remolding their stories to fit their cultural landscape, instead of using the...

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When we have access to our own language, our own sense of expression, we have access to who we are. Black writers and writers of color are using language on their own terms, they are no longer depending on the dominating class for validation.

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White western framework the usually mutes their agency.

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Have a literary nerdy day!

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Toni Morrison is a master at symbolism, and they are tucked so neatly within her characters' idiosyncrasies, and her lyrical prose, that we fail to see the treads that knits them and give her novels a sense of wholeness. She calls this - Invisible Ink.

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About Geraldine: A socially conscious, middle-class black woman, Geraldine shows little affection for her son, Louis Junior, but she has enormous adoration for her blue-eyed black cat. Louis Junior Geraldine's only child is unloved & deeply troubled; he bullies & torments Pecola.