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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malak's Bookshelf, bringing a world together
Speaker 1: with books, culture and community.
Speaker 2: What a dude? What a do? Everyone? This is Malie,
Speaker 2: the host of Malik's Bookshelf.
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a wonderful week and I hope
Speaker 1: that you're doing very well well to This episode is
Speaker 1: going to be about information, book reviews, and our upcoming
Speaker 1: event with Jay Ellis in conversation with Easter Ray With
Speaker 1: This has taking place August thirteenth, twenty twenty four at
Speaker 1: the Miracle Theater in Inglewood.
Speaker 2: Now, this is going to be a performance by Jay Ellis.
Speaker 1: And a book discussion centered around his new book that
Speaker 1: just came out, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend or
Speaker 1: Just Me?
Speaker 2: An Adventure in Boyhood.
Speaker 1: Jay's new book is a life affirming, hilarious, and vulnerable
Speaker 1: exploration of coming of age in the nineteen nineties with
Speaker 1: an imaginary side kick.
Speaker 2: Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend or Just Me?
Speaker 1: Is not only an AFFIRMI but also transporting a true
Speaker 1: beacon for both our younger and older selves who were
Speaker 1: once lonely and perhaps all still lonely at times, but
Speaker 1: have also been capable of wielding our immense imaginations. Whoa wait,
Speaker 1: This book is pot with humor and it's a fun read.
Speaker 1: This is a book that j Ellis trucks, an unforgettable
Speaker 1: story of looking inward to solve some life biggest and
Speaker 1: smallest challenges as he opens up his world and his
Speaker 1: mind in a way to bring joy, guidance, and fun
Speaker 1: to the readers at large. Now, August thirteenth, at the
Speaker 1: Miracle Theater in Inglewood at seven pm, Jay Ellis is
Speaker 1: gonna be in conversation with Issa Ray.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be an electric day.
Speaker 1: Now, what Jay is going to do is a performance first,
Speaker 1: which is gonna give a very telling, artistic and theatric
Speaker 1: portrayal of his new book.
Speaker 2: And after j Ellis's performance.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go right into the historic conversation with Ray.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna moderate the conversation with Jay Ellis?
Speaker 2: Is this gonna be electric day?
Speaker 1: And that's not all because right after the conclusion of
Speaker 1: the discussion, the performance and the book signing, because Jay
Speaker 1: gonna be signing.
Speaker 2: His new book, Did Everyone.
Speaker 1: Have an Imaginary Friend or Just Me An Adventures in Boyhood.
Speaker 1: After the conclusion of that part of the event, we're
Speaker 1: moving on to the Box Stage after party, which is
Speaker 1: gonna take place at the Miracle Theater at the conclusion
Speaker 1: of the first part of the event, and we're gonna eat,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna party, live band, and we're gonna talk,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna network, and we're gonna play games, and
Speaker 1: all of that takes place all on the same evening
Speaker 1: from six o'clock where the doors open till midnight. Is
Speaker 1: all going down at the Miracle Theater hosted by Milik Books.
Speaker 1: Register for this upcoming event go to milikbooks dot com
Speaker 1: now stay tuned for the rest of this episode on
Speaker 1: Malik's Bookshelf Bringing a world together with books, culture, and conity. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Malik's Bookshelf is all about community. But what's
Speaker 1: going on in the community, what's happening.
Speaker 2: In your neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I know that in Los Angeles we try to do
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of events to bring consciousness and culture
Speaker 1: to literacy because books are important. I read something the
Speaker 1: other day that sixty one percent of low income homes
Speaker 1: don't have books inside their homes.
Speaker 2: That's mind boggling. That blew me away.
Speaker 1: Also read with fifty percent of homes don't do any
Speaker 1: reading inside their homes. And also one out of four
Speaker 1: children grow up without learning how to read.
Speaker 3: That there's over forty five million functionally illiterates in America,
Speaker 3: the most advanced and superioration on the planet.
Speaker 2: There is a.
Speaker 1: Direct relationship between reading and juvenile offenders because eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of juveniles that are offenders have difficulty reading. So
Speaker 1: there is a relationship between crime and illiteracy.
Speaker 2: Now, we got to do better in this country.
Speaker 1: And we got to increase and promote reading because it
Speaker 1: is a direct result of your achievements and advancements. And
Speaker 1: so Malik Books is doing we can, but we need
Speaker 1: a lot more people to be involved and engaged in
Speaker 1: finding ways to help our young and our youth in
Speaker 1: America to read in order to achieve It's a direct relationship,
Speaker 1: and so we need to do better. This country is
Speaker 1: being most advanced nation on the planet and our test
Speaker 1: scores are low.
Speaker 2: There is a statistic that was done this show just
Speaker 2: reading twenty minutes a.
Speaker 1: Day helps children score in the seventy five percentile on
Speaker 1: the standardized tests that they give.
Speaker 2: Every year to students in school.
Speaker 1: And they say if you read five minutes a day,
Speaker 1: it increases to fifty percent on the standardized tests that
Speaker 1: they give students all over the country.
Speaker 2: So reading has a direct relationship to.
Speaker 1: Your grades, achievements, your ambitions, and just overall how you
Speaker 1: see the world and everything in it. I can go
Speaker 1: on and on and on the power and the effect
Speaker 1: of reading.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't you know.
Speaker 1: We specialize in African American and diversity books, but our
Speaker 1: recommendation is you to find books that can.
Speaker 2: Excite you to want to read. Because we get people.
Speaker 1: In the store all the time and say, hey, my child,
Speaker 1: he doesn't read a lie.
Speaker 2: What do you recommend?
Speaker 1: My first question is what does he like to read?
Speaker 1: Because we want to give a kid a book. If
Speaker 1: it's a comic book, hey you're still reading. If it's
Speaker 1: a graphic novel, if it's a book about mystery, if
Speaker 1: it's a book about humor, if it's a book about
Speaker 1: you know. Only thing about Malique books is that we
Speaker 1: specialize in black and diversity books, so we try to
Speaker 1: find a subject matter that they like, but the author
Speaker 1: is typically black, because most of our books in our store,
Speaker 1: not all, but most of them are written by black authors.
Speaker 1: But we try to find a book so that they
Speaker 1: could if they like a venture, if they like fantasy.
Speaker 1: You know, I go to Kobe Bryann's books, which you know,
Speaker 1: he has a series he created and God rest his soul,
Speaker 1: you know, he's no longer amongst us, but he was
Speaker 1: creating these series of books about the superpower within you
Speaker 1: and the work ethic and your ability to drawing from
Speaker 1: your inner strength by working hard, due diligence, stick to
Speaker 1: the determination, and harnessing your inner talents by through hard work.
Speaker 1: And he was creating this whole series of books, the
Speaker 1: Wizard series and the et Parking and the series of
Speaker 1: books that're all sitting around sports, but they're all center
Speaker 1: around work ethic. And he wanted to courage the next
Speaker 1: generation to see themselves as superhuman and if they apply themselves,
Speaker 1: if they worked hard and if they stuck to something,
Speaker 1: that they could become a master and therefore elevate. And
Speaker 1: so that whole series I always share that with a
Speaker 1: lot of people that comes to Maligue books, the Kobe
Speaker 1: Brown series that he created. He's no longer amongst us,
Speaker 1: but the series is still around, it's still evolving, it's
Speaker 1: still books are still coming out. So I definitely encourage
Speaker 1: that series because it teaches, you know, our young and
Speaker 1: our youth the importance of working hard and believing in themselves.
Speaker 4: But we got to do better and making reading exciting,
Speaker 4: reading important, and reading as a way to be a
Speaker 4: building block for success because we're competing against so many
Speaker 4: other distractions, video games, phones, you know, their cell phones
Speaker 4: are very addictive, and just kids strolling on their social media,
Speaker 4: which can be very time consuming for waste of time,
Speaker 4: doesn't elevate your brain.
Speaker 1: And there's so many influence on there, this misinformed, misguiding people,
Speaker 1: and we just got to do better at making reading
Speaker 1: more fun and entertaining and inspirational. So if you're out
Speaker 1: there listening, do what you can to create the next
Speaker 1: generation of change by using books to make a difference. Yo,
Speaker 1: we got another high event this August fourteenth at six.
Speaker 2: To nine pm to coven it with Black America twenty
Speaker 2: years later.
Speaker 1: Now, twenty years ago that was a bestseller written by
Speaker 1: Tavis Smiley. Well, today, twenty years later, we have the
Speaker 1: book relaunch twenty years later, The Covenant with Black of
Speaker 1: America by Tivis Smiley, the owner of KBLA Talk Radio.
Speaker 1: And we all know how important talk radio is. Where
Speaker 1: Tavis Smiley has a black owned, progressively owned black radio
Speaker 1: station that's progressively black, that talk about black issues all
Speaker 1: day long, twenty four seven, three hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: days a year, and he's having this explosive event, The
Speaker 1: Covenant with Black America twenty years later. Now check out,
Speaker 1: this is a pre launch pre event where Malik Books
Speaker 1: is the official bookseller.
Speaker 2: At the event.
Speaker 1: Now, this is a community event and it's free. And
Speaker 1: if you go to KBLA Talk Radio you can register.
Speaker 1: That's KBLA fifteen eighty dot com.
Speaker 2: You can register free full event.
Speaker 1: I got the links on Belief Books dot com too,
Speaker 1: make it easy for you.
Speaker 2: But guess who.
Speaker 1: All is in the house besides Tivins Smiley, Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be joining him for an evening filled with the inspiration
Speaker 1: a pre publication book party featuring Covenant contributors Cornell West,
Speaker 1: Malia Abdullah, Connie Rice, Mark Ridley, Thomas Tyrone Howard, and
Speaker 1: Lisa A.
Speaker 2: Dona, all contributors.
Speaker 1: Of the relaunch of the Covenant with Black America twenty
Speaker 1: years later. This is gonna be epic, It's gonna be community.
Speaker 1: They're all gonna be.
Speaker 2: In the house talking about the.
Speaker 1: Block agenda, the Covenant with Black America and where do
Speaker 1: we go from here and beyond?
Speaker 2: And this is gonna be stellar. You got to come
Speaker 2: on through. This is gonna be prolific, progressively.
Speaker 1: Black, and it's gonna be one of the events you
Speaker 1: don't wanna miss.
Speaker 2: August fourteenth at six pm.
Speaker 1: Now, Now, for those who don't know, doctor Cornell West
Speaker 1: is running for the presidency of the United States and
Speaker 1: his vice president is one of the founders of the
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter movement, Melina Abdullah. Now both of them
Speaker 1: are gonna be at the event and their contributors to
Speaker 1: the Covenant with Black America twenty years later. They are
Speaker 1: gonna be at the event, along with Tyvins, Smiley and
Speaker 1: the other individuals contributors that I mentioned. But Cornell West
Speaker 1: is one of the most intellectuals and speakers.
Speaker 2: In the country. Now he's running for president.
Speaker 1: I don't know all his views, but I imagine that
Speaker 1: evening he's gonna talk about his campaign and.
Speaker 2: His policy issues.
Speaker 1: But he's one of the most highly sought out speakers
Speaker 1: in the country for decades. He's one of the most
Speaker 1: highly respected black figures in the black community and America.
Speaker 2: So this event is going to be history. You don't
Speaker 2: want to miss this.
Speaker 1: Mark Really Thomas, one of the most decorated councilmen in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, is in the house as well. Listen, you
Speaker 1: gotta come on through and if you want to attend
Speaker 1: this event, you gotta go to KBLA fifteen eighty dot
Speaker 1: com to register for the event and receive the undisclosed
Speaker 1: location after you RSVP.
Speaker 2: So right now, if you want.
Speaker 1: To attend this event, you gotta go to KBLA fifteen
Speaker 1: eighty dot com. That's KBLA fifteen eighty dot com and
Speaker 1: after you register, you'll receive.
Speaker 2: The location of the event.
Speaker 1: This is an event you don't want to miss.
Speaker 2: Hey, I got a book review.
Speaker 1: Now, this book I came across I carried in the
Speaker 1: store as well. It's called The Seven Habits are Highly
Speaker 1: Effective People, Powerful Lessons and Personal Change by Steven R.
Speaker 2: Covet.
Speaker 1: Now, this book was very interesting and powerful and effective.
Speaker 1: Some of the things I learned from reading this book
Speaker 1: was how humans are creatures of habit. You know, that's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent accurate. We all have these habits, and
Speaker 1: these habits affect our lives, for the good.
Speaker 2: And for the worse. And so you've heard it takes
Speaker 2: twenty eight days the breaker habit. Well, it takes twenty
Speaker 2: eight days the former habit.
Speaker 1: Some of the other things I thought was powerful about
Speaker 1: the book was how to create lasting change, like act
Speaker 1: not react, predict consequences before pursuing endeavors, listen to others
Speaker 1: before speaking, schedule your priorities, seek the common benefits, keeping
Speaker 1: effective system running, work with others to achieve results. I
Speaker 1: thought that those were very simple and effective things that
Speaker 1: you can do to create lasting change.
Speaker 2: In your life.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that emphasized in this
Speaker 1: book that I thought was very striking was that we
Speaker 1: worry about things that we can't change instead of dealing
Speaker 1: with the things that we can't change. So, hey, if
Speaker 1: it's something that you can't do nothing about, that you
Speaker 1: don't have no power to do nothing about, then kind
Speaker 1: of leave those things to the side and let things
Speaker 1: happen as they going to happen. But the things that
Speaker 1: you can make a difference, and the things that you
Speaker 1: can make a change and the things that you can
Speaker 1: be more effective. Do those things, focus on those things,
Speaker 1: organize those things. One of the most effective things that
Speaker 1: you can do for personal development and personal change is
Speaker 1: to focus on yourself.
Speaker 2: That's mind, body, and soul. Working out makes you.
Speaker 1: Feel good doing the things that elevates you and enhances
Speaker 1: who you are. The book really emphasized that personal growth
Speaker 1: and investing in self sharpens you physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally,
Speaker 1: and socially, and it creates.
Speaker 2: Harmony and balance.
Speaker 1: So you must invest in yourself and that's very important
Speaker 1: because that's the only way you're going to unlock the
Speaker 1: potential inside you. And one more things we cannot underestimate
Speaker 1: the development of good relationships with others.
Speaker 2: Connecting emotionally with others.
Speaker 1: That's one of the most important ingredients that effective people
Speaker 1: are so good at, and they create these powerful relationships.
Speaker 1: Because of this effectiveness they have with people, they are
Speaker 1: able to connect and people are able to build a
Speaker 1: relationship and transcend the moment to long lasting friendships, business relations,
Speaker 1: professional relations. These are some of the habits that highly
Speaker 1: affective people are very good at, and these are some
Speaker 1: of the things that we can learn, learn to implement
Speaker 1: in our lives to make powerful relationships.
Speaker 2: Because when to grow, you need to.
Speaker 1: Have strong habits, effective habits, and these are some of
Speaker 1: the seven habits of highly effective people. Now there's old
Speaker 1: saying we don't have to reinvent the will, but all
Speaker 1: we have to do is study.
Speaker 2: People who are highly effective.
Speaker 1: So this book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,
Speaker 1: Powerful Lessons and Personal Change, by Steven R.
Speaker 2: Covey.
Speaker 1: Pick it up at melitebooks dot com or wherever books
Speaker 1: are sold. Thanks for listening to Maleak's bookshelf, where topics
Speaker 1: on the shelf are books, culture, and community.
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