Colored Pages Book Club

What it isssss!?! So boom, we're continuing our Summer Short Series by discussing 2 short stories from the first issue of the legendary Black speculative fiction literary magazine, FIYAH! Based off of the iconic 1926 literary magazine, "Fire!!", created by Harlem Renaissance legends including Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes to name a few, this magazine asks what does it mean to look at intersectional issues of equality through the lens of science fiction and fantasy? So obviously, there is much to discuss. And we'll be talking in particular about the short stories "Police Magic" by Brent Lambert and "Chesirah" by L.D. Lewis! Icebreaker Discussion About Phoenixes: 8:43 - 22:54 Plot Summaries: 23:16 - 37:06 Discussion: 37:20 - 55:15 Join the club by following us on Twitter @TheColoredPages, email at thesecoloredpages@gmail.com, our website at thesecoloredpages.com, AND our NEW Instagram @TheseColoredPages! Also check out I Found This Great Book's episodes on Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes AND Fir

Hey friends, “Summer Short Series the Sequel” is back with a bang! Join your favorite fusion as they laugh and chat through the very fun indie superhero web comic, the UnCommons by Tony Weaver Jr.! AND as a special treat, we are talking to the author himself. Get ready ‘cause the blerds are out in full force today!  Also follow Tony Weaver Jr. @TonyWeaverJr or checkout his website https://weirdenoughproductions.com/ Intro/ Ako’s Question (what is the worst super power) 00:00 - 16:58 Plot Summary 17:20 - 33:04 Discussion 33:04 - 42:26 Interview with Tony Weaver Jr. 43:00 - 1:53:50 Books That Tony Recommended include:  The UnCommons https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-uncommons/list?title_no=384825&page=1 The CosmoKnights by Hannah Templer Die by Stephanie Hans and Kieron Gillen  Hover Girls by Geneva Bowers (GDBee) As far as Marci and I go, join the club by following us on Twitter @TheColoredPages, email at thesecoloredpages@gmail.com, our website at thesecoloredpages.com, AND our NEW Instagram @Thes

While Ako and I don't love this book, we DO love that it's been able to introduce us to a fellow book podcaster, Traci Thomas from The Stacks Podcast! Sit back and enjoy while we talk about Alexa and Drew's hot mess of a relationship, diversity within the romance genre, romantic comedies that we ourselves would create, and SO. MUCH. MORE! Introduction & Icebreaker with Traci: 3:37 - 18:13 Plot Summary: 18:32 - 53:11 Discussion with Traci: 53:22 - 1:26:58 Follow up with Traci by following her on Instagram @TheStacksPod, Twitter on @TheStacksPod_, and her website at thestackspodcast.com.  As far as Ako and I go, join the club by following us on Twitter @TheColoredPages, email at thesecoloredpages@gmail.com, our website at thesecoloredpages.com, AND our NEW Instagram @TheseColoredPages! P.S. The book recommendations Traci left were Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, The Bride Test & The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang, and A Study of Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas as well as any works by writers

Hello, hello, hello, beautiful people!! The dynamic duo is back for another episode of the Colored Pages Book Club! This week, we dip our toes into the world of romantic comedy! Listen as we discuss early wedding memories, tropes and scripts in romantic comedies, and all our usual shenaniganary! Also, check out Sahara.Storms on Instagram for make-up bags, earphone cases, laptop cases etc. all with cute ankara designs and fabrics! Intro: 2:20 -17:15 Summary: 17:15 - 43:05  Discussion: 43:15 - 1:29:15 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! 

Hey sugarplums!!! Quarantine has stopped a lot of things, but it has not stopped our joy! We are joined by our friend, Curtis, from I Found This Great Book for a BONUS episode where we speak with New York Times Bestselling Author, Justina Ireland, about her recently released sequel to Dread Nation, called Deathless Divide. We talk about themes such as the craft of world-building, writing authentic characters of color, Jane and Katherine's beautiful friendship, the glory of an antihero and SO. MUCH. MORE!!! Plot Summary of Deathless Divide: 1:46 - 19:36 Discussion between Ako & Marci: 19:53 - 38:18 Interview with JUSTINA IRELAND along with CURTIS: 38:29 - 1:37:05 Get in touch with Justina Ireland through her Twitter (@JustinaIreland), Instagram (@Justina.Ireland), or website www.justinaireland.com! Hang out with Curtis on Twitter (@foundagreatbook) or through his podcast and website called "I Found This Great Book" Lastly, join the club by getting in touch with us over email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com),

Join the dynamic duo for a introspective interview with Malcolm Hansen, author of "They Come in All Colors."  Your favorite fusion chats with Malcolm about travel, the writing process, love, Pea and Buck's relationship and much MUCH more.  Want more Malcolm? Of course you do. Find him on his website https://www.malcolmhansen.com/ or follow him on twitter @malcolmhansen Introduction/Travel Discussion/Ako's Question: 0:00 - 14:00 The Writing Process: 14:00 - 45:15 Book Discussion: 45:15 - 1:12:45 Join the club by kikiing with us over Twitter (@TheColoredPages), email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com), and our website (thesecoloredpages.com)!

What it isssssssss?! Anyways, your favorite cups of clam chowder are back for another vivacious episode where we'll be wrapping up our discussion on Malcolm Hansen's They Come in All Colors. In this episode, we have an OD long (but SUPER good) discussion about the true, non-possessive nature of love and also discuss Pea's come-up, Huey's resemblance to the main character of The Boondocks, and how Buck Fairchild gets zeros across the board. Icebreaker question about L U V: 1:51 - 30:02 Plot Summary: 30:21 - 1:09:08 Discussion: 1:09:18 - 1:42:33 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! 

Hey friends! The dynamic duo is back for another episode of the Colored Pages Book Club. And this week we are reading the first part of "They Come in All Colors" by Malcolm Hansen. We talk about white socialization, the intersection of horror and racism, and, funny enough, love! *Warning this episode is a little heavy and discusses pretty dark themes. Intro 2.00 - 23.09 (Spoiler Warning for the book "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara) Summary 23.36 -58.13 Discussion 58.29 -1.42.00 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! 

Matilda might still be the living worst, but at least we're enjoying the ride with some new friends

Hey ya'll the dynamic duo is back at it again in this month of love and melanin to discuss the sci-fi space adventure "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon. Join Marci and Ako through a hilarious and thought provoking discussion of the human experience past, future, and imagined.   Intro: 3:04 -17:15 Plot Summary: 17:15 - 55:56 Discussion: 55:56 - 140:00

Hai hai!! So, this week, we had the pleasure of chatting with Cori Bratby-Rudd, editor of "Under the Belly of the Beast." It was a great time, so chill and relax while we talking about the beginnings of The After School and Dissonance Press, our favorite selections from the anthology, and all the ways marginalized folks can unite to reinvent what it means to write!  Icebreaker Question: 0:07 - 7:50  Cori's Evolution & the Beginnings of Dissonance Press: 8:08 - 41:42 Under the Belly of the Beast: 41:57 - 1:05:47 Be sure to check out "Under the Belly of the Beast" when it releases on February 22nd! Learn more about Dissonance Press through their website: www.dissonancepress.com . Get in touch with The After School through theafterschoolsubmissions@gmail.com, as well as through their Facebook and Instagram!  And lastlyyyyy, join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

The dynamic duo is coming at you this Thursday with an Anthology! "Under the Belly of the Beast" is the first work out of the Afterschool and Dissonance Press. The Afterschool is a writers collective that works to emphasize the living, breathing, communal nature of story telling. It is the brain child of the talented, Ryka Aoki, and with the first edition contributed to by many talented writers and edited by Cori Bratby-Rudd, this anthology "Under the Belly of the Beast" asks the reader to examine the nature of all things ...beastly. Join Ako and Marci as they laugh, get off track, and discuss... Introduction: 0:00 -20:30 Initial Thoughts: 20:45 -51:00 Favorite Picks 51:12 - 1:15:48  

Look at us making it into 2020 with a new episodeeeee! If one of your New Year's Resolutions was to read more then girl you are in LUCK because we're hitting you all with a dope interview with the one and only, Jiaqing Wilson-Yang! Sit back in your New Years glow and tune into our conversation about ancestry, ways to funnel anger, Hazel's perfection, and the meaning of the GOOSE!  Introduction: 0:00 - 4:34 Interview: 4:53 - 59:23 Check out Jiaqing on her Facebook or shoot her an email at jiaqingwilsonyang@gmail.com. Check out other books similarly published by Metonymy Press (https://metonymypress.com/) and Brow Books (https://browbooks.com/). Lastly, you can check out more of Jiaqing's work in Nia King's "Queer and Trans Artists of Color Volume 3" (https://artactivistnia.bigcartel.com/product/queer-trans-artists-of-color-volume-3) LASTLYYYYY, join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Heads up cool kids, this one's a little deep, a little heavy, but very good! So join the dynamic duo as they discuss life, death, and anger in the second half of "Small Beauty". And yes, you guessed it, Hazel is BACK to snatch y'alls wigs in part 2! Intro: 0:00 - 15:15 Summary: 15:30 - 48:30 Discussion: 48:40 - 1:26:30 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Oof chile, we are BACK for another week, this time to talk about the beautiful and melancholy "Small Beauty" :) Grab a snack and set on some mood lighting as we talk about the beauty of melancholic storytelling, Sandy's tendency to lowwwwkey do too much, and, of course, our queen, the goddess herself--Hazel Henrietta Jenkins (Middle and Last name might be slightly fabricated). Intro/Discussion Question: 2:15 - 16:31 Plot Summary: 16:48 - 35:52 Book Discussion: 36:02 - 1:09:19 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!  

Join your favorite Colorful Duo as we interview Larissa Lai, author of Tiger Flu! Listen to us discuss everything from the role of lovers in story telling, coalition building and collateral damage, and the corporate machines that have been running countries long before the internet. Also, just so ya'll know -- Larissa Lai holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary and directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing there. Check her out at https://www.larissalai.com/

♫ Back seat, windows up, that's the way we like to READ ♫ Anyway, haiiiiiiii, your favorite book sorceresses are back with Part 2 of Larissa Lai's "Tiger Flu"! Grab some wine (or, actually, maybe not...) as we conclude our discussion on this ~interesting~ tale and talk about world-building, the politics of cheating death, our reading habits in high school, and SOOOOOO much MORE! High School Discussion: 2:54 - 18:11  Plot Summary: 18:32 - 46:25 Discussion: 48:26 - 1:13:37 *Spoilers from the Black Mirror Episode "San Junipero" 1:01:44 - 1:02:52* Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! Support Joamette's amazing kickstarter for Power and Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Volume 2 at (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/powerandmagic/power-and-magic-the-queer-witch-comics-anthology-volume-2) Lastly, play with our friends at Black Nerd Problems at blacknerdproblems.com, @bnplit & @blackne

And the Blerds are back at it again this week with a sci-fi post-apocalypse story. We got clones, we got feminist communes, we got consumptive mother figures, we got predatory corporations, we got regeneration, and we got questions--oh, do we got questions! Join Marci and Ako as they take a tour through this novel and contemplate how to stop the apocalypse with love! Intro/Discussion Question: 1:10-18:00 Plot Summary: 18:15 - 50:37 Story Discussion: 50:51 - 73:07

What's good lovebugs?! So, for the first time in CPBC history, we're actually going to be joined by a guest during our discussion section! This guest's name is Curtis and he is the creator of the podcast, I Found This Great Book! Join the three of us as we wrap up our discussion of Dread Nation and discuss how shamblers lowkey might be the good guys, how Jackson clearly has teleportation abilities, Sue's fall from relevance, and so much MORE! Hypothetical Shambler Discussion: 3:42 - 9:24 Plot Summary: 9:40 - 49:19 Discussion WITH CURTIS: 49:29 - 1:39:42 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! Support Curtis' amazing initiative to build a directory of Black Mystery Novels at IFoundThisGreatBook.com Lastly, play with our friends at Black Nerd Problems at blacknerdproblems.com, @bnplit & @blacknerdproblems on Instagram, and @blknrdproblems on Twitter!

We know Halloween is next month, BUT we're coming at y'all with some Civil War historical fiction about a zombie apocalypse! Join us while we talk about what we ourselves would do in a zombie apocalypse, the complexities of passing privilege, rude-ass Ms. Anderson, and SO. MUCH. MORE.  Zombie Apocalypse Discussion: 2:58-12:02 (HEAVY spoilers to the movie "Train to Busan" from 6:20 - basically the end of the damn section lmao) Plot Summary: 12:20 - 50:18 Discussion: 50:28 - 1:23:54 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!