Category: Book Talk
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Next Up… Hunger
Now that I’ve finally finished the first book on my summer reading list, I get to dig back in to Roxane Gay. I’ve been intrigued by her work since reading Difficult Women, and reading Ayiti earlier this year further encouraged me to read more of her work, so here we are at Hunger. Hunger is…
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I Deliberately Forgot About You!
So, I’ve finally finished I Almost Forgot About You, and I must say I enjoyed the rest of it. I won’t completely ruin the end for you, but I will say Georgia ends up in a whirlwind romance with someone she chose not to be with twenty years before even though they were both in…
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My Summer Reading List
I have come to accept I will never be one of those people who reads ten books per month… or five books per month. Some months I read one book—two if they are both really good—and sometimes I go two months without reading a single book. While it would make sense for me to shut…
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Edwidge Danticat: Everything Inside
I really wanted to have a list of amazing things to say about this short story collection. I really have enjoyed all of Danticat’s work that I’ve read thus far, but nothing really stood out to me in this one. Unlike Roxane Gay’s Ayiti where I was caught up in almost every story, the stories…
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Roxane Gay: Ayiti
Is this really the first book I’ve finished this year? Quite possibly, but all the months have basically run together at this point, so…. Ayiti! May is Haitian Heritage Month (today is Haitian Flag Day!), and Ayiti has been on my TBR list ever since I read Difficult Women, so I figured I should finally…
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I Feel Cheated! Tale of a Bad Buy.
Technically, it’s my own fault because I didn’t look at the page count in the item description. But I never do that! When I buy a book I assume it’s a book! So a few months ago I came across this book on Instagram…or maybe the woman’s YouTube channel was suggested in my feed…I don’t…
Christine Gabrièlle 