The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Oct. 5th. Thirteen of us met here at the Wilson Library for a lively discussion of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves . This collection of essays gathered by Glory Edim features a wide array of writers describing the works that gave them a glimpse of themselves through literature. Shelara started out by saying that although she didn't see herself in the literature she read at school, her parents made it their purpose to buy books in which she was reflected. Kay said that when she was growing up she didn't recognize that she wasn't seeing herself in the stories she read, she related, " When I was growing up I think I was colorblind. I was going to the library three or four times a week. I loved the Dick and Jane books and later the white teenage romances. For me it has to be a good story. Of course now, I buy books by Black authors in order to su
The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series meets approximately once every six weeks at the Courtland S. Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in New Haven, CT.