Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Did your book club meeting get canceled due to COVID-19? Fear not! Dive into BookTube, the best digital book club on the internet, from the comfort (and safety) of your own home. (Wine optional.)
YouTube Originals has premiered the series’ sixth episode, an in-depth conversation with author Jacqueline Woodson, where she discusses her best-selling novel Red at the Bone and the National Book Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming. Along the way, she shares her perspectives on race, place, gender, and queer identity, and the “expensive lies” she tells about them. Jacqueline is joined by guest BookTubers CeCe Ewing (ProblemsOfABookNerd), Ebony and Denice Nuñez (Team2Moms), and Elaine Welteroth (author of More Than Enough).
And for those of you using this sequestered time to catch up on your reading, BookTube has several prior episodes worth watching, as well:
- Pilot episode featuring Michelle Obama (Becoming)
- Episode one featuring Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers)
- Episode two featuring Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments)
- Episode three featuring James Patterson (Alex Cross)
- Episode four featuring Melinda Gates (The Moment of Lift)
- Episode five featuring Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption)
A new episode premieres the third Thursday of each month.
