Category: Book Talk
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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
I did it! And with 2 days to spare! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back and read my frantic post from last week. I’m still soaking in my thoughts about this book. It was simple, refreshing, interesting…kind of like cucumber water…but also like mango iced tea with a little rum mixed…
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Haphazardly Vanishing
How was your Christmas (or whichever other Holiday you celebrate)? I rested last week. Christmas week is the only paid vacation time I get at work, and it’s been one hellofayear (intentionally one word), so I decided to do nothing last week. I wanted to truly and intentionally rest my brain. I laid on the…
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Thoughts on Parable of the Sower
I finished Parable of the Sower about a week ago, but haven’t yet started on Parable of the Talents. There’s a lot going on in my head and in my life and I just haven’t been able to pick up another book this past week. I’m not going to recap what Parable of the Sower…
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Re-reading Parables
Sooo…I’ve decided to jump on the Parables bandwagon! If you’ve been here for any period of time you know that Octavia Butler has been my favorite author for years! Maybe a decade. Honestly, I don’t even remember when I picked up Kindred the first time. Anyway, you also may know that I have re-read two…
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Angie Smith: What Women Fear
I don’t often write about books I read as devotionals on this blog—I usually leave that for Insert Adventist—but this book spoke to me on so many levels that I had to share. I’d never before read a book that I identified with so much. I have talked about the anxiety I experience over on…
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A Few New Books
Tomorrow is my birthday and what does a book-lover buy herself for her birthday? Cake decorating supplies! I kid. I bought books of course (and cake decorating supplies)! I stopped buying books (mostly) at the beginning of last year in an effort to not overwhelm my limited storage space with loaded bookshelves. I dwindled my…
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Julia Alvarez: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
There are some books that I start and can’t put down until I finish them. They take up all of my available time. I forego TV and Netflix and cooking dinner on time and talking to my family and friends and laundry all because the book is just that good. This is not one of…
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Octavia E. Butler: Seed to Harvest (the Patternist Series)
I tend not to re-read books (even though I’ll watch the same movie a thousand times), but I decided to revisit two of Octavia Butler’s series this year. The first was the Xenogenesis series in the form of Lilith’s Brood; Seed to Harvest was the second. Seed to Harvest is the title of the four-book…
Christine Gabrièlle 