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Every Thursday you will find Color Me Brown Links. This feature grew out of our Color Me Brown Challenge. This week's links:

Neesha Meminger reviews Down To The Bone. Neesha hits all the right points. If you haven't read Dole's book, you'll want to after reading this review.

When we ran the Color Me Brown Challenge, one of my hopes was that readers, especially winners, would publish reviews of their book prizes. And reviewing they are. Check out Jason Gignac's review of Maya's Ganesan's debut collection, Apologies to An Apple at 5-squared. I'm nominating Maya's collection for Cybils as soon as I can find the isbn.

Every Thursday you will find Color Me Brown Links. This feature grew out of our Color Me Brown Challenge, which was a call to action issued by me for readers to blog brown. CMB was a huge success and my hope is that we continue to build on this momentum.This week's links:

Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad reviewed by Jill at Rhapsody In Books.
She was born in 1950 in Philadelphia. Her father, George Moore, was involved in a car crash that left him a paraplegic when Bebe was just ten months old. Soon thereafter, her parents separated. Her father moved back to his childhood home in North Carolina. As a young girl, she spent every summer with her father.

The Other Side of Paradise reviewed by Imani Perry at The Defenders Online.
Staceyann Chin’s memoir, The Other Side of Paradise is a kuntsleroman, the coming-of-age story of an artist. It begins with her early childhood. Staceyann and her older brother are being reared by their efficiently loving and spiritually devout grandmother, two small poor children in rural Jamaica. By memoir’s end she has attended the most elite University in the Caribbean, found her actor’s voice through a theatrical production of Barbadian poet Kamau Braithwaite’s The Arrivants, and is departing for New York City.

Biracial Picture Books featured in Renee's Multicultural Minute #4 at Shen Books.
Down To The Bone reviewed by oyceter at Sakura of Doom.
Laura Amores is kicked out of Catholic school when a nun finds a note sent to her from her girlfriend, Marlena. She's then kicked out of the house by her mother. She manages to find shelter with her best friend Soli, and she spends most of the book trying to figure out her sexuality and what communities she wants to belong to.

Once a month, I will randomly pick a reviewer to receive a free book from our Prize Bucket. If you find a review you think we should feature, write me at [email protected].

Happy reading.

Recently we concluded a very successful Color Me Brown Challenge and last week I shared that we would follow up with a new feature: Color Me Brown links. Every Thursday, I'll post links to reviews that feature POC characters. Great way to find new reads and an opportunity to promote some cool bloggers.

While I love discovering great reviews, feel free to drop me an email with your suggestions. You can write me at [email protected]. Now on to this week's links:

Bayou, Vol. #1 by Jeremy Love. Scroll to the near bottom of the post. Find this at Eva's A Striped Armchair. Eva is a voracious reader and her reviews will cause you to pick up more books than you can read.

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Find this at Amanda's The Zen Leaf. Amanda and Jason are a very cool couple. Must be very fun to be their kids.

No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan. The participants in the 50book POC challenge at Livejournal is a treasure trove. This review is from Wordsofastory.

The Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins. Find this at Edi's Crazy Quilts. If you don't know, Edi is my wise mentor. And I've made it clear what I think about Mitali.