Name: MGR July 2024 Newsletter
Start: 2024-08-01T02:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-01T04:00:00.000Z
Location: Online / Your Home

Join us every Saturday to dedicate 1 to 2 hours to plan your week/month or catch up on some things you need to do.

Grab your coffee, tea, water, or mimosa if you feel froggy! Use this time to plan, budget, journal, read, or catch up with some of your fellow Mocha Girls.

Host: Tenille Griffin

Date: Every Saturday

Join via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/xjy-igbb-tth

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

Mocha Girls Read - Harlem

Shatisha Gurley

Planning with Friends: Power Planning

Online event

Hey Mocha Girl!

**It's time for our next IN-PERSON book club meeting, facilitated by @tenderblackgirl!** Join us for some great chatting and socializing.

**Ujamaa Community Bookstore**
**2424 Dr. MLK Jr. St, Indianapolis, IN**
**July 28, 2024**
**2 pm**

What are we going to talk about? The book, **"[ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by S.A. Cosby"](https://amzn.to/3V7bYL1)**

Mocha Girls' Book Description:
Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student, and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon.

With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.
Charon is Titus’s home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning."

**📆 Mark your calendars and don't forget that you can attend even if you don't finish the book!**

Mocha Girls Read - Indianapolis

Ujamaa Community Bookstore

Alecia Barnes

Lolita

[IN-PERSON DISCUSSION] ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by S.A. Cosby

2424 Dr M.L.K. Jr St

**BOOK DISCUSSION:**
In July we are reading a memoir from none other than Whoopi Goldberg.

**BOOK SYNOPSIS:**
If it weren’t for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life, always encouraging them to be true to themselves. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010–and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later–she felt deeply alone; the only people who truly knew her were gone.
Emma raised her children not just to survive, but to thrive. In this intimate and heartfelt memoir, Whoopi shares many of the deeply personal stories of their lives together for the first time. Growing up in the projects in New York City, there were trips to Coney Island, the Ice Capades, and museums, and every Christmas was a magical experience. To this day, she doesn’t know how her mother was able to give them such an enriching childhood, despite the struggles they faced–and it wasn’t until she was well into adulthood that Whoopi learned just how traumatic some of those struggles were.

Mocha Girls Read - Tempe

Shon

Lynnette Harris-Scott

Shiki

[IN-PERSON Discussion]  by Whoopi Goldberg

Changing Hands Bookstore

**Hosted By: Renee Bailey**

Every Monday, all chapters come and take an hour and read together silently.

1. Pick any book you want.
2. Log in.
3. Read for as long as you want.

*It is not selfish to prioritize your happiness, so come and join us each week. Make time for yourself; you deserve it!*

**Join us virtually; each meeting will take place via Google Meet.**
[Video call link:](http:) [https://meet.google.com/msv-pyyp-eig](https://meet.google.com/msv-pyyp-eig)

Kris V. Bunny🇵🇷

Destiny Berry

Matt

Reading Time - Reading Apart Together

**\*\*\* This is not an event just a monthly Mocha Girl Read newsletter. \*\*\***
***July 2024***
**📖 Nominations for August monthly selection** 📖
Each month Mocha Girls Read members select one book to nominate and votes for the monthly book selection. But this month we will be reading our Sponsored Book. Penguin Random House has made a donation to MGR and select
ted the month of August for us to read a special title.
Penguin Random House is the international home to more than 300 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints.
Go to our website on July 15 to read more about our upcoming book and the author.

**August Monthly Book Selection**
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters by Jessica P. Pryde

**ARE YOU JOINING US? DON’T GET FOMO!**
Only 8 spots left!
There’s been buzz about the MGR WELLNESS+ BOOKS RETREAT for ages, but the hefty price tag got you sweating? No worries! We've got payment plans galore.
Choose one, grab your bags, and get ready for a magical bookworm getaway with your literary sistas!

https://mochagirlsread.squadtrip.com/trip/mgr-wellness--books-3541

**📕 What are we reading this month? 📕**
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg

If it weren’t for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life, always encouraging them to be true to themselves. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010—and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later—she felt deeply alone; the only people who truly knew her were gone.
Emma raised her children not just to survive, but to thrive. In this intimate and heartfelt memoir, Whoopi shares many of the deeply personal stories of their lives together for the first time. Growing up in the projects in New York City, there were trips to Coney Island, the Ice Capades, and museums, and every Christmas was a magical experience. To this day, she doesn’t know how her mother was able to give them such an enriching childhood, despite the struggles they faced—and it wasn’t until she was well into adulthood that Whoopi learned just how traumatic some of those struggles were.
Fans of personal memoirs such as Finding Me by Viola Davis and In Pieces by Sally Field will be touched by Bits and a moving tribute from a daughter to her mother, and beautiful portrait of three people who loved each other deeply. Whoopi writes, “Not everybody gets to walk this earth with folks who let you be exactly who you are and who give you the confidence to become exactly who you want to be. So, I thought I’d share mine with you.”

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