Sable Lit Reviews

  Looks are deceiving and nothing should be left to chance in Barbara Karmazin’s Sci-Fi Erotic thriller Night Moves. IN this book we are taken on a fast journey through a ruthless urban city where gang bangers and crack heads roam and accost the residents by day and set car bombs by night. Karmazin acutely [...]

When an idea for a novel begins to form it can be the seed of any experience imagined or rooted in reality that brings the full body of the work to fruition. For Sue Monk Kidd, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, it was a combination of her own life [...]

Before going into the drugstore, Director Gina Prince-Bythewood tapped her young actor on the shoulder, “Jennifer, whatever you do, don’t hit anyone.” Confused, the Oscar-award winning actor of Dream Girls, Jennifer Hudson walked into the North Carolina drugstore unsure what would happen next or why she would need such a warning. The unique telling of [...]

Title: BET Black College Tour Location: Grambling, Louisiana Description: Occuring at Grambling State University in its 7th year, BET hosts the back to school college tour. Support BET as it creates excitement and social activites while boosting community awareness regarding the longevity of US Historically Black Colleges. For more information about the tour locations see: [...]

Hi All, This is just a reminder that October 15th at 11:59 PM PST is the last moment you can enter Sable Lit Reviews’ Hispanic Heritage Month Book Giveaway contest sponored by Hachettte Book Group. If you missed any of the questions there’s still time to enter. Here’s link to the info page which features [...]

On the surface, Sue Monk Kidd’s 2002 New York Times best seller The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, a young teen-aged Caucasian girl learning the lessons of love and family in the Civil Rights era of South Carolina 1964. Adapted to the screen and ready for a mid-October 2008 release, [...]

In general, I don’t consider myself a movie-hyper. As a matter of fact, I tend to shy away from movies that get too much press out of the fear that I will be severely disappointed come opening night. It’s the reason why I have not seen Men In Black, Independence Day, any of the Lord [...]

Pamela K. Kinney delivers a dose of haunted reality in Haunted Richmond. For those who enjoy historically-based scary stories, Haunted Richmond incorporates the rich history of Richmond, Virginia with the ghostly happenings that plagued the successive generational inhabitants of the tri-city area for nearly 300 years. With Edgar Allen Poe as the city’s resident celebrity [...]

With a presence that is all embracing, Dr. Maya Angelou has released to the world a volume of poetry and prose to the women she has adopted as daughters and to those who have claimed her as mother in Letter to My Daughter. Not unlike other works such as I Know Why the Caged Bird [...]

With women making the largest strides in the arenas of politics, education, entrepreneurship and business, no other time is more poignant for Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou’s poetic tribute to the emotionally adopted daughters who have touched her life. In response to the question regarding the reason for her tribute, she was quoted, “I [...]