Tag: Maya Angelou

• August 5, 2022

  Reading Through the Stacks: 2. Maya Angelou’s first book of poetry

  Join me as I read my way through the poetry section at the main branch of the Oakland Public Library! First of all, I can’t talk about this book without mentioning how fun this 70s sunset is on the cover–bold, interesting, and really quite simple. I think this library copy is probably a first edition. […]
• November 17, 2015

  Top Ten Tuesday: Great Quotes from Books I Read this Year

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic was to pick some of our favorite quotes from books we’ve read this year. So I went back through some of the books I read this year, and here’s what I came up with. Some books […]
• September 13, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms: Tea Cookies from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  Sorry this post is late–we had company staying with us and there wasn’t time to sit down and write out a post! As a child, your worldview is largely based on sensory input. Reality is what you taste, hear, smell, touch, and see. Looking back on these experiences, we can interpret these sensations and try […]
• September 10, 2015

  Women Writers Reading Challenge #39: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  In 8th grade when the other group of kids (in the other English class) was reading this book, we read The Outsiders, which is a fine book, but it doesn’t really hold a candle to Maya Angelou. I always felt that by not getting to read this book I was missing out, so I had to […]