TimeEnoughAtLast
Mood reader, only kept in line by library due dates. Mostly reading about art, film, & tv 🎨🎬📺, Black stories ✊🏿, food & foodways 🍽, and mysteries🕵🏿♀️ ♀️ she/her 📆 30s📍The American South
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When I was visiting Amsterdam, I met a Swedish man who, when I said I was from Alabama, he sneered and said (something like) "Not much going on there, is it?" And I said, "Well actually, Alabama was the heart of civil rights movement that echoed around the world." (A really interesting conversation to have outside the Anne Frank Huis.)
One thing about me is that I will always defend Alabama for what it does right and being the home of the people who were loud enough and brave enough to fit against injustices and changed the law of the land is something I will continuously remind y'all of. 😇
This book is a perfect example of how calculated the Bus Boycott was and lays the foundation to understand the many daily injustices of that time. It also does a great job of humanizing the men and women who were a part the movement at that time.
The audiobook has a bonus interview with Gray at the end.
Anyway, boycotts work, bye! 👋🏾
Time and tide wait for no man.
I really liked this! Du Maurier writes so elegantly and gives you just enough information to draw your own conclusions before the characters do. The revelations that unfold throughout the story (all the characters are questionable, tbh) make it ripe for a reread with the new context.
Rebecca is a masterclass in suspense, I can totally see why Hitchcock was drawn to adapt it.
Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?
Have you ever watched a series that's trucking along fine and suddenly episode 7 or so is from a completely different perspective or suddenly following a side character? I love when shows do that and this whole book gave me that feeling. I loved piecing together how the characters popped back up in other chapters. I kept track of (sometimes using clues and inferences from the text) what year and location chapters were taking place in. My copy is marked up! I had a really good time with this one.
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects
Robell Awake
Clearly, life is pretty banging right now. Yet despite all these kick-ass things, I still:
- Lose out on jobs because of the color of my skin
- Have men condescend to me in the workplace because I’m a woman
- Experience sexual harassment from both strangers and colleagues
- Have guys call me a See You Next Tuesday on my Facebook page
- Receive private messages from dudes attempting to shame me for expressing any frustration I have with how I am treated as a black woman
- Receive messages from others implying that because I have self-love I most definitely am a racist and hate all white people
- And the list goes on and on
Oof! Just writing out these few things made me a little ‘turbed. So perhaps I’m a black person who happens to be a woman and who happens to be a skosh angry or a skosh angry person who happens to be black and female.
In 12th grade AP Psychology, we learned that anger is one of the 6 universal emotions that is found in every culture around the world and let me tell you that was FREEING. And, yes, before I was a legal adult I was well versed in the trials of being perceived as an angry Black woman 😒 Learning that literally every society has the emotion of anger (and happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise), I immediately readjusted my mindset because being angry is a normal reaction in situations where it's warranted and if you think I'm reacting inappropriately (I'm probably not), that's for you to deal with 🤷🏿♀️. Look at that list above! If anyone has earned the right to be angry forever, it's Black women 😑
Sidenote: I had the had exact same wave of acceptance in 4th grade when we were watching some video about the human body and it said that hair grows on every inch of our skin except our lips and I was like 'oh so this is normal and mine's just on the darkside? Cool 😎' and a wave of peace came over me, and to this day, if I go a little long without shaving, my attitude is 'why are you looking at my ankles in the first place, weirdo?'
Not marking this as a spoiler because it's life, girly pop! But willing to readjust.
TimeEnoughAtLast commented...
The last two books in my top 5 are my favorite fiction and nonfiction title of the previous calendar year! There rest aren't necessarily my favorite books but give a good representation of my vibes 🫶🏾
EDITED BECAUSE THIS NOW ONE OF MY 🌟SHOWCASE COMMENTS🌟
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I actually only ever selected four letterboxd vibes but I picked Hamnet because it was my favorite fiction I read all year in 2025 so I might rotate my last two spots to be my favorite fiction and non fiction of the year. (The other slots are based on what truly gives an idea of my tastes but not necessarily my favorite rereads.)
I've loved And Then There Were None since I was 12 and reread it every so often. It's not going anywhere.
And which is most likely to stay put?
For me,
Probably next to be dethroned: Bunny. Most likely to stay put: Fellowship of the Ring
(I'm too tired to offer an explanation for mine but, if anyone wants to share their reasons, I think that would be fun to read!)
So curious about everyone's predictions!
TimeEnoughAtLast commented...
Mine is the title of this episode of The Twilight Zone that absolutely tore me apart when I watched with my mom in third grade. I was literally in tears watching it because I identified with Henry Bemis, sweet lil bookworm, so strongly. 😭
Seemed perfect for a username on a reading site 😅
If you chose the anonymous route for your username, how/why did you pick what you picked??💭
