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Hello, readers and reviewers. I’ve spent two years bringing my dream of becoming a published author to life, and I hope you will review Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X here on AALBC.com. Synopsis: Inspired by the life and works of poet Sylvia Plath, including Plath's published journals, Maya Morrow presents her own coming-of-age journey in this collection of raw and uncensored diaries spanning a decade and a half. The story begins Christmas 1984 and ends in 1999, when the author, twenty-six, rediscovers the handwritten diaries for the first time. "These diaries are compelling enough on their own," Morrow writes. "However, what makes this coming-of-age story different from many others is that it gives the reader a glimpse of not just an average, American middle class girl's life—it highlights the fact that my life was that, and I'm Afro American. When The Cosby Show came on, I saw my family on television, and didn't understand why the media said the show was an unrealistic depiction of African American life. It was realistic; it was my life!" Set against a backdrop of cultural touchstones any Gen-Xer would recognize, Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X offers a deeply personal look at the emotional life of a teenager of color trying to make sense of race, class, and sexuality at the dawn of Post-Cold War America. Bio: Maya Morrow was born in San Jose, California to two mathematicians who had fled the segregated, civil rights-era South to create a new life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Safe within the cocoon of her middle class surroundings—both parents had long careers in technology—she understood both parents' emphasis on the importance of formal education and reading books, choosing instead to test the boundaries of her very structured, controlled environment and cultivate her rebellious and adventurous nature. “I’ve always expressed myself by writing, for as long as I can remember,” Morrow says. Her first published book is the brutally honest, autobiographical coming-of-age work titled Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X. Product details Paperback, hardcover, e-book 243 pages Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co. (June 29, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 148093514X ISBN-13: 978-1480935143 eISBN: 978-1480935372 Silicon Valley Girl is available in hard cover, paperback, and e-book editions and is available for purchase via the following online retailers: Amazon.com , Barnesandnoble.com , Abebooks.com , Bookdepository.com , Albiris.com , Indiebound.org, and Dorrancebookstore.com

Try this one. Eric Foner is the best author on Reconstruction. This was the first one of his I read but all of his books are in depth and fantastic.

Well, there is not much to say. It is what it is. Nothing unusual or out of the norm took place over this past weekend in Negro America. What you see is the by product of the seething pathology and chaos which is the outgrowth of the celebrated single baby mama matriarchal American Negro culture. The extreme violence and total disregard for human life are very similar to ISIS. Not much difference when it comes to the necrotic mindset of taking another humans life without any hesitancy or remorse. But since the 10 murders were black on black (the norm), Black Lives Matters and their supporting cohorts of intransigent Negroes will look the other way. Look carefully and you can see their mute button is in the on position. Oh well......

The marketing copy starts out, "Welcome to the long awaited Antidote to the Willie Lynch’s Making of a Slave document." Which sends up red flags considering that letter is a hoax... That said, Black Unity will likely remain a fantasy. The incentives for achieving this goal are all wrong, and the entire culture is aligned in such a way to prevent most of us from being interested in it as a goal. There are are indeed many people, I consider myself one, who find this a goal worth pursuing and actively engaged in it. But the evidence it pretty clear; collectively we aren't willing to make the necessary sacrifices to make Black Unity a reality. I wish I was wrong, and that books like this were unnecessary, but the evidence speaks for itself.