Does OOSA Rock?
OOSA Online Book Club has been nominated for the Black Book Clubs Rock Awards in two categories - Best Reviewer and Book Club of the Year. The Black Book Clubs Rock Awards is the only show of its kind that honors excellence in the literary community for book clubs and other literary entities....
read full entry »Greetings! LOVE, BLACK HISTORY MONTH and NOMINATIONS are in the air!
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OOSA has received two nominations...
read full entry »Deal With Death
Endy's DEAL WITH DEATH tells the story of a mother and her two sons struggling to survive in an impoverished neighborhood. The mother is a functional drug addict. The two sons are very different. The oldest, Malik, is a drug dealer and is somewhat of a disappointment to his mother. The youngest, Marquis, is the apple of his mother's eye. He is in college and has a bright future ahead of him until circumstances beyond his control lead him into another direction.
The book started off kind of slow, introducing characters that were not the main focus of the story. Once the book addressed...