The Times Weekly stories: Bookshttp://thetimesweekly.com/news/living/books/The Times Weekly stories: Booksen-usWed, 03 Jan 2018 11:01:09 -0600Book review: Dear Martin: A Novel by Nic Stone http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2018/jan/03/book-review-dear-martin-novel-nic-stone/Check out the latest book review from the Times Weekly.Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:01:09 -0600http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2018/jan/03/book-review-dear-martin-novel-nic-stone/“Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine” by Kelley Fanto Deetz http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/nov/15/bound-fire-how-virginias-enslaved-cooks-helped-inv/Book review of “Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine” by Kelley Fanto Deetz.Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:11:45 -0600http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/nov/15/bound-fire-how-virginias-enslaved-cooks-helped-inv/“Same Family, Different Colors” by Lori L. Tharps http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/oct/18/same-family-different-colors-lori-l-tharps/Lori Tharps’ youngest daughter is very light-skinned. That fact begins her story because it was recently pointed out by another child in an innocent game.Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:20:20 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/oct/18/same-family-different-colors-lori-l-tharps/“Rise of the Jumbies” by Tracey Baptiste http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/sep/19/rise-jumbies-tracey-baptiste/What lives beneath the waves? Fish, of course. Seahorses, clams, lobsters and whales, turtles and mermaids, too. You’d be surprised at what lives under the sea, but in the new book “Rise of the Jumbies” by Tracey Baptiste, there are also things that you don’t want to know about… Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:09:40 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/sep/19/rise-jumbies-tracey-baptiste/“Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.” http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/sep/06/cuz-life-and-times-michael/It was a youthful indiscretion. A mistake made due to immaturity or naïveté. Something you did to look bigger, older, or bolder. You knew better but it shouldn’t cost you everything, should it? As in the new book “Cuz” by Danielle Allen, it shouldn’t cost you your life. He was her baby cousin. Although Danielle Allen was only eight years older than Michael, that’s how she always thought of him. He was a mega-watt-smiling, introspective child with an easy-going way, a beloved mischief-maker in a huge family. She remembers when he was born. She remembers when he died. It began when he was fifteen. Allen says that her sprawling family always watched out for one another but Michael’s mother had been raising three kids alone and she ran into some trouble. She learned that her oldest son, Nicholas, was gang-banging when she spotted him on the street. She thought she’d saved Michael from all that but when he was just fourteen, he was arrested for attempted carjacking. Danielle AllenWed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/sep/06/cuz-life-and-times-michael/“Truth Doesn’t Have a Side” by Dr. Bennet Omalu (with Mark Tabb) http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/aug/23/truth-doesnt-have-side-dr-bennet-omalu-mark-tabb/Everyone you meet has an effect on your life. Somehow, in some way, others change you: a stranger’s smile lifts your mood. Kindness makes you happy. An injustice spurs you to action, making you someone else’s change. Clearly, as in the new memoir “Truth Doesn’t Have a Side” by Dr. Bennet Omalu (with Mark Tabb), a chance meeting could alter your path. Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/aug/23/truth-doesnt-have-side-dr-bennet-omalu-mark-tabb/There’s a Dragon in My Closet” by Dorothea Taylor, illustrated by Charly Palmer http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/aug/09/theres-dragon-my-closet-dorothea-taylor-illustrate/You didn’t do it. Whatever it was, it wasn’t your fault. You didn’t do it – you weren’t even around when it happened. You don’t know who to blame. Maybe it was your dog, your mom, or maybe, as in the new book by Dorothea Taylor, illustrated by Charly Palmer, “There’s a Dragon in My Closet.” Wed, 09 Aug 2017 14:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/aug/09/theres-dragon-my-closet-dorothea-taylor-illustrate/“Sin of a Woman” http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jul/25/sin-woman/Nothing’s set in stone. Few things are. Lucky for you, there’s usually a chance to change your mind or have a do-over. You can often get another go at something because few things are that firmly decided. As in the new book “Sin of a Woman” by Kimberla Lawson Roby, you can sometimes have a second chance. More and more every day, Porsha Harrington got on Pastor Raven Jones Black’s last nerve. Kimberla Lawson RobyTue, 25 Jul 2017 15:31:29 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jul/25/sin-woman/Jabari Jumps http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jun/27/jabari-jumps/You can do it. Yes, you can. You just need to take a deep breath and then blow it out. Find the courage inside yourself. Think of something else and do it. Don’t be scared. As you’ll see in “Jabari Jumps” by Gaia Cornwall , good things come to those who get brave and take the leap. Gaia CornwallTue, 27 Jun 2017 14:16:17 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jun/27/jabari-jumps/“I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons” http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jun/13/i-cant-make-life-lessons/You can pretend all you want. Hide your head in the sand and say it ain’t so. Cover your ears and yell “LaLaLaLaLa” until everyone thinks you’re five years old. You can deny, deny, deny, but listen up: some things are factual, so read “I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons” by Kevin Hart, and you may learn something. Kevin HartTue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jun/13/i-cant-make-life-lessons/“My Daddy Rules the World” http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/may/30/my-daddy-rules-world/Your Daddy is the King of the House. He’s the smartest person you know. He can run fast, jump high, and his words make things happen, he’s strong, cool, and funny; he’s always making you laugh. And in the new book “My Daddy Rules the World,” words and pictures by Hope Anita Smith, you’ll read all about him. Your daddy is many things to you. He’s friendly as a puppy, he’s a porcupine on his face, and he’s a tickle octopus. He’s tall as a giraffe, wise as an owl, and he gives the best bear hugs! Hope Anita SmithTue, 30 May 2017 16:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/may/30/my-daddy-rules-world/The Weekend Effect http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/may/15/weekend-effect/Zzzzzzzzzip. That was the sound of your last weekend as it passed by, but it probably doesn’t matter anyhow: it was packed with work, To-Dos and obligations, kid’s sports, and more work. Sometimes, you wonder why you even bother. You might as well just go to the office – but first, read “The Weekend Effect” by Katrina Onstad before you zip out Friday afternoon. Katrina OnstadMon, 15 May 2017 16:02:21 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/may/15/weekend-effect/“The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6’4”, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian” http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/may/02/awkward-thoughts-w-kamau-bell-tales-64-african-ame/You are a very different kind of person. You like things that others don’t like, you’re good at something that nobody else can do, and you laugh at the craziest jokes. You’re different – and that’s okay. If we were all the same, as you’ll see in “The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell” by W. Kamau Bell, life would be awfully boring. When Kamau Bell was born in late January, 1973, his mother was already “a pioneer.” W. Kamau BellTue, 02 May 2017 14:54:17 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/may/02/awkward-thoughts-w-kamau-bell-tales-64-african-ame/Once in a Blue Moon Lodge http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/apr/19/once-blue-moon-lodge/No matter how old you are, you never get tired of hearing your birth story. It’s a story of anticipation that’s different from every other on the planet. You’re at the center of it, though not quite. It’s a story you can never tell first-hand and, as in “Once in a Blue Moon Lodge” by Lorna Landvik, it’s only a beginning. In writing down the Dobbin-Strand-Rolvaag family stories, Nora Rolvaag had crossed off more than she’d actually left on the page. She’d promised herself that she’d have a book completely done by the time her triplets turned eighteen. She knew that Sena, Grace, and Ulla would each want different things from the family tales. But what would Nora tell? Lorna LandvikWed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/apr/19/once-blue-moon-lodge/The President’s Kitchen Cabinet http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/apr/04/presidents-kitchen-cabinet/Eight courses. You seriously doubted if the food was ever going to stop coming, though you hoped it wouldn’t: you’d tasted all your favorite dishes, and then some. It was a meal fit for a King or Queen. Or maybe a president, and in “The President’s Kitchen Cabinet” by Adrian Miller, you’ll read about First Family feasts. Tue, 04 Apr 2017 14:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/apr/04/presidents-kitchen-cabinet/Read books before they’re published http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/apr/04/read-books-theyre-published/The community is invited to a free event where they can learn about books before they are published at the Plainfield Public Library on Tuesday, May 9 at 7 p.m. The Library is located at 15025 S. Illinois St. in downtown Plainfield. At the event, called “Spring Book Buzz,” a representative from Random House will talk to attendees about several forthcoming books. At the end of the night, participants will get to take home a free copy of an advanced release book. They’ll also leave with a free book catalog and canvas tote bag that reads “Borrow. Read. Repeat.” Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:00:00 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/apr/04/read-books-theyre-published/My Brown Baby http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/mar/20/my-brown-baby/Raising a child is quite a challenge. When they’re small, you feel as though the entire world is dangerous. As they grow, you waffle between encouragement and fear, wings for them and tears for you. Teenagers, well, they’re a whole separate category and in the new book “My Brown Baby” by Denene Millner, some parents have even more to worry about. Denene MillnerMon, 20 Mar 2017 16:08:07 -0500http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/mar/20/my-brown-baby/“Never Caught” http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/feb/21/never-caught/Run, run, run. Some days, it feels like that’s all you do. Run the kids to school, dash to work, rush with errands, and run yourself ragged before bed. You’re always on the go, always moving, and in the new book “Never Caught” by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, your breath isn’t the only thing to catch. Twenty-one-year-old Mulatto Betty must’ve breathed a sigh of relief. When Martha Custis married George Washington, slaves were shuffled as the mistress moved to Mount Vernon ; miraculously and notably, Betty moved and was allowed to keep her baby son with her. She was pregnant, too, by a white man with an “indenture agreement” and an eye for opportunity; their eldest daughter was born in mid-1773, and given the unusual name of Ona Maria. Erica Armstrong DunbarTue, 21 Feb 2017 12:00:00 -0600http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/feb/21/never-caught/The Blood of Emmett Till http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/feb/07/blood-emmett-till/You really can’t remember. For sure, something important happened years ago, something you should recall very easily, but time’s made things fuzzy. Have you forgotten or, worse yet, have you just remembered everything wrong? Usually, you suppose, it wouldn’t matter but in the new book “The Blood of Emmett Till” by Timothy B. Tyson, it surely does. For decades, Carolyn Bryant Donham didn’t talk about Emmett Till, her accusations, or his murder in 1955. Stories about that day swirled through the years, in court and out, depending on who was asked, but she kept mum until she read a book by Tyson, about a similar incident that happened fifteen years after Till was killed. She reached out to Tyson, he claims, ready to talk. She’d written a biography, she said, and wanted it, and some other documents, to be archived appropriately. She denied remembering much, really, but it was during one of their interviews that Carolyn, at whom Till supposedly flirted, dropped a bombshell: she said Till never did what he was accused of doing. He didn’t do it. Timothy B. TysonTue, 07 Feb 2017 07:59:31 -0600http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/feb/07/blood-emmett-till/Tears We Cannot Stop http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jan/19/tears-we-cannot-stop/"America is in trouble, and a lot of that trouble--perhaps most of it--has to do with race. Everywhere we turn, there is discord, division, death and destruction. When we survey the land, we see a country full of suffering that it cannot fully understand, and a history that it can no longer deny. Slavery casts a long shadow across our lives... Black and white people... seem to occupy different universes with worldviews that are fatally opposed to one another... What, then, can we do? What I need to say can only be said as a sermon... I offer this sermon to you, my dear white friends... I do so in the interest of healing our our nation through honest, often blunt, talk... Without white America wrestling with these truths and confronting these realities, we may not survive. To paraphrase the Bible, to whom much is given, much is expected. And, you my friends, have been given so much. And the Lord knows, what wasn't given, you simply took, took, and took, and took. But the time is here for reckoning with the past... and moving together to redeem the nation for the future." Book Review by Kam WilliamsThu, 19 Jan 2017 12:00:00 -0600http://thetimesweekly.com/news/2017/jan/19/tears-we-cannot-stop/
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