Another year is winding to an end, and we are waiting for a new year to begin. Readers In Motion Bookclub is a Facebook book club. Our book chats are held on our Facebook page throughout the year on the last Thursday in every month unless otherwise notated. The chats normally lasts for 45-60 minutes. Each month's chat will have a gift card drawing. The giveaway will consist on the names of those that participatedin the chat. If you do not participate during the chat while it is live which means within the night of the chat, you will NOT be eligible for the gift card giveaway. To be apart of the chat, to have to be a member of Readers In Motion Bookclub. For more information on book chats or membership, contact us at readersinmotion@yahoo.com
2013 Book Chats
January 2013
Febuary 2013
September 2013
You Can't Plan Love
By Synthia Williams
Knowing firsthand the heartbreak that comes when desire and emotion rule a relationship, Kenyatta Copeland assumes marrying Brad Johnson will lead to a safe and secure life. But as much as she believes she can plan her future, it’s hard to ignore the way her boss, Malcolm Patterson, ignites her passions with just one look.
2013 Book Chats
January 2013
My Woman, His Wife
by Anna J
For most couples, inviting someone into their bedroom is totally out of the question. Any normal woman would flip if her man even thought about trying a threesome with another woman. Jasmine is that woman, and more. It's not until her husband James pressures her into having a threesome that their once happy lives get turned into nothing but drama.
Febuary 2013
Intimate Sessions: 7 Moments of Pleasure
by Nadege
A hot collection of short erotica that is captivating, romantic, realistic and full of pleasure. Nadège has put together seven stories that allow the reader to become enthralled moment-by-moment, stroke-by-stroke. With each sexual adventure, you will be left pleasurably satisfied, yet yearning for more. Intimate Sessions explores the most sensuous encounters; steamy, risky, seductive and romantic, it is sure to incite and quench your sexual thirst. Knowingly aware of what is needed to keep things sexy, fun and hot. Nadège opens the door to her first lesson--Intimate Sessions 101.
March 2013
Animal
by K'wan
One bullet changed everything.
Three years after narrowly escaping a one way trip to the gas chamber, the fugitive known only as Animal finds himself drawn back to the scene of the crime, Harlem, NY.
Throughout his entire time in exile the only thing that kept Animal going was the thought that he would one day be reunited with his soul mate, Gucci. But one bullet changed everything.
When his enemies tried to murder Gucci they crossed the line, so he vowed to cross them all. While Gucci teeters between life and death Animal sets out on a bloody mission fueled by love and orchestrated by bullets...there would be no more innocents.
Alliances are formed and secrets uncovered while Animal wages his personal war on the streets of Harlem only to discover one great truth....he is but a small piece in a much greater puzzle.
APRIL 2013
Let Joy Arise
by Ashea Goldson
Taylor Carter has not always been a Christian all her life. Before Taylor found God she was in a very serious car accident that killed the married man that she was involved with and also took away her ability to walk. After all that was said and done with this life altering event, Taylor still was able to see her way through.
Fast forward to the present; Taylor is now the owner of Push It Fitness center and married to Keith Bryant. Of course like many say, you cannot be a child of God and not have trials. The wife of the man that was killed in the accident that she was involved in is back to get Taylor. She has a serious case of a woman scorned syndrome. Added to the chaos, Taylor has to deal with the house guest from hell named Paul who is the good friend of Keith, and may hold the key to a painful past that he has hidden from his wife.
Will Taylor and Keith's marriage survive all trails and tribulations?Will Taylor continue to support her husband once his secret past comes to light?
Fast forward to the present; Taylor is now the owner of Push It Fitness center and married to Keith Bryant. Of course like many say, you cannot be a child of God and not have trials. The wife of the man that was killed in the accident that she was involved in is back to get Taylor. She has a serious case of a woman scorned syndrome. Added to the chaos, Taylor has to deal with the house guest from hell named Paul who is the good friend of Keith, and may hold the key to a painful past that he has hidden from his wife.
Will Taylor and Keith's marriage survive all trails and tribulations?Will Taylor continue to support her husband once his secret past comes to light?
MAY 2013
GLASS GODDESSES, CONCRETE WALLS
BY KEITH WILLIAMS
In the middle of the night, our unnamed protagonist wakes to find Diana’s gun pointed at his head and he recognizes bloody murder in her eyes. While facing a scorned woman’s wrath, many of his past entanglements replay in his mind. Memories of women he has loved or refused to love surface like ghosts from the grave to haunt what could be his last moments. As he tries to reason with her for the sake of everything he has to live for, he realizes that there is so much that he deserves to pay for. Love, guns, sex and bullets can all be deadly in the wrong hands.
JUNE/JULY 2013
HOW COULD MY HUSBAND BE GAY?
BY ONDREA L. DAVIS, J'SON M. LEE, &
T. J. ADAMS
How could my husband be GAY? is an autobiographical look into the life of Ondrea L. Davis. On the outside, Ondrea s life is nothing short of a fairy tale. She has a dream home, the perfect husband and three beautiful children. Ondrea soon discovers that her husband, Marceous King, is not the man she thought she married. Exhausting all efforts to salvage her marriage, Ondrea finds herself in the fight of her life. In the process, she uncovers a highly sophisticated web of deception and shocking secrets. Marceous will stop at nothing to keep Ondrea from exposing the truth and derailing his plan even if it means destroying her in the process. In this battle of good versus evil, who will be the ultimate victor?
How could my husband be GAY? is an autobiographical look into the life of Ondrea L. Davis. On the outside, Ondrea s life is nothing short of a fairy tale. She has a dream home, the perfect husband and three beautiful children. Ondrea soon discovers that her husband, Marceous King, is not the man she thought she married. Exhausting all efforts to salvage her marriage, Ondrea finds herself in the fight of her life. In the process, she uncovers a highly sophisticated web of deception and shocking secrets. Marceous will stop at nothing to keep Ondrea from exposing the truth and derailing his plan even if it means destroying her in the process. In this battle of good versus evil, who will be the ultimate victor?
AUGUST 2013
Guilty Pleasures (Last Laugh) &
Men Don't Cry
by Boo Jackson
"Guilty Pleasures" will take you into the life of Janet Clark. She's beautiful, she's successful, she's been married for over 20 years, but she's bored. Thoughts of her husband having an affair drives Janet to join the local gym and that's where she meets Lucky. Lucky works Janet's body out in more ways than one and has her feeling like she's on cloud nine; until she finds out the truth about her husband's affair.
12 year old Brian is a typical kid that just want to have a normal life. Unfortunately, his father is making sure that his daily life is anything but that. Trapped in a house with an abusive father and a defenseless mother, Brian sees first hand the effects of abuse on a physical, mental, and emotional level. With no one to talk to he turns to his journal to let out his anger and sorrow. What do you do when the person that is sworn to protect you is the same person that is causing the hurt?
Guilty Pleasures (Last Laugh) &
Men Don't Cry
by Boo Jackson
"Guilty Pleasures" will take you into the life of Janet Clark. She's beautiful, she's successful, she's been married for over 20 years, but she's bored. Thoughts of her husband having an affair drives Janet to join the local gym and that's where she meets Lucky. Lucky works Janet's body out in more ways than one and has her feeling like she's on cloud nine; until she finds out the truth about her husband's affair.12 year old Brian is a typical kid that just want to have a normal life. Unfortunately, his father is making sure that his daily life is anything but that. Trapped in a house with an abusive father and a defenseless mother, Brian sees first hand the effects of abuse on a physical, mental, and emotional level. With no one to talk to he turns to his journal to let out his anger and sorrow. What do you do when the person that is sworn to protect you is the same person that is causing the hurt?September 2013
You Can't Plan Love
By Synthia Williams
Knowing firsthand the heartbreak that comes when desire and emotion rule a relationship, Kenyatta Copeland assumes marrying Brad Johnson will lead to a safe and secure life. But as much as she believes she can plan her future, it’s hard to ignore the way her boss, Malcolm Patterson, ignites her passions with just one look.
After Malcolm learns of her engagement, he makes a play for her heart and reminds her that passion between a man and a woman has its perks… but also its costs. When Brad confirms his suspicion that there’s more than work between Kenyatta and Malcolm, he devises a sinister plan to keep Kenyatta by his side.
Torn between her promise to marry Brad and her irrepressible longing for Malcolm, Kenyatta must decide if she can live her life in a passionless marriage of convenience or once again trust her heart. Yet Brad does not intend to let her go easily, and by the time she realizes the depths of his treachery, it may be too late.
October 2013
Merge / Disciple: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion by
Walter Mosley
MergeRaleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for twenty-four million dollars, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from a world very different from our own. This entity shows Raleigh joy beyond the comforts of twenty-four million dollars….and merges our world with those that live beyond.DiscipleHogarth “Trent” Tryman is a forty-two-year-old man working a dead-end data entry job. Though he lives alone and has no real friends besides his mother, he’s grown quite content in his quiet life, burning away time with television, the internet, and video games. That all changes the night he receives a bizarre instant message on his computer from a man who calls himself Bron. At first he thinks it’s a joke, but in just a matter of days Hogarth Tryman goes from a data-entry clerk to the head of a corporation. His fate is now in very powerful hands as he realizes he has become a pawn in a much larger game with unimaginable stakes—a battle that threatens the prime life force on Earth.
NOVEMBER /DECEMBER 2013
The Perfect Marriage by
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, Mackenzie, successful careers, and a beautiful house in a posh Chicago suburb. They are attractive, respected . . . and hiding a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs.
It started innocently enough. Denise occasionally used prescription drugs to help her deal with the long hours and demanding nature of her job. Derrek, also under pressure at work, began using cocaine socially with some of his colleagues.
They can quit whenever they want to. At least, that's what Denise would like to believe . As her job becomes more stressful, Denise can no longer get through the day without a fix. Derrek realizes his harmless habit has become anything but, and desperately wants to get clean. However, his attempts are derailed when there is a sudden family tragedy. Once soul mates, now this husband and wife are quickly losing the immense love that had been the cornerstone of their marriage. With her parents spiraling out of control, Mackenzie makes an unexpected move to take matters into her own hands. Is her sacrifice too late-or is there still hope? Is there a final chance to save the Shaw family?
It started innocently enough. Denise occasionally used prescription drugs to help her deal with the long hours and demanding nature of her job. Derrek, also under pressure at work, began using cocaine socially with some of his colleagues.
They can quit whenever they want to. At least, that's what Denise would like to believe . As her job becomes more stressful, Denise can no longer get through the day without a fix. Derrek realizes his harmless habit has become anything but, and desperately wants to get clean. However, his attempts are derailed when there is a sudden family tragedy. Once soul mates, now this husband and wife are quickly losing the immense love that had been the cornerstone of their marriage. With her parents spiraling out of control, Mackenzie makes an unexpected move to take matters into her own hands. Is her sacrifice too late-or is there still hope? Is there a final chance to save the Shaw family?
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