Writer Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson in the Caribbean island of Antigua on May 25, 1949.
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This is the book I read in seventh grade when I was ashamed of the crush I had on my lab partner. A girl with microbraided black hair and thick eyeliner.
This is the book I read in seventh grade when I didn’t know that you could love boys and girls.
This is the book I read in seventh grade and this is the first love story I ever cared about and ever wanted a piece of.
When you feel like a freak—for any reason—books are more than stories. Some books change your life.
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For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.
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Is she reading Order of the Phoenix?Jennifer Lawrence reads (on the set of The Hunger Games).
WHAT is she reading!?!?
The girl playing a girl from a book reads a book… infinityyy
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Get Your Read on with Lambda Literary's My Story Book Club
Covering many genres including fiction, memoir and poetry,My Storyis a place where LGBT youth and their supporters can read a story like their own and participate in an open discussion with like-minded readers. Focused on providing an open and welcoming atmosphere online,My Storyexposes diversity in the positive and creative conduit of literature.
Each month, we will introduce a LGBT work geared towards young adults with compelling discussions, polls, play lists, author commentary and trivia each week led by a guest youth moderator. At the end of the month, the author will participate in an hour-long Q&A with readers.
May’s title is What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson.
June will be Name All the Animals by Alison Smith.
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