Category: Book Talk
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Mid-Year Reading Roundup
It’s been a while, and boy what a while it has been! This COVID-19 thing is crazy crazy, and I hope you are hanging in there. Wishing you good health. Unfortunately, my little book club came crashing down as the stay-at-home orders were put into place in March. As you know if you’ve been here…
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Reading Pet Peeve: Mid-Book Pronunciation
You know what really throws me off? When I’m 150 pages into a book and the author decides to have a character pronounce the name of another character, or has that character pronounce his or her own name. Like, ma’am, I’ve been saying this name in my head the way it looks or the way…
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Year-end Wrap Up
I did it you guys! I read 12 books this year. While that doesn’t seem like a lot, considering I read a lot more before, I am proud of myself because I hadn’t made reading a priority in the years after completing grad school. I didn’t exactly read one book per month though, some months…
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Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Virtue & Vengeance
My last full read of the year! I read Blood & Bone earlier this year and loved it so I couldn’t wait for the second book in this series to come out. Children of Virtue and Vengeance was released December 3rd, a week later I picked it up at my local library. I was very…
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Walidah Imarisha & Adrienne Maree Brown: Octavia’s Brood
You know once of the things I’m really into? Science-Fiction. I like Sci-Fi movies and shows, and I like Sci-Fi books too. Octavia Butler was not my first Sci-Fi author to read, but she is my favorite, so when I found a book full of Sci-Fi short stories that was named after my favorite author,…
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Francine Rivers: Redeeming Love
Hello fellow readers! I seriously missed writing about books you guys, and so here I am, giving you four new posts to wrap up the year! We’ll start with Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, which our book club read a few months ago, then get into Octavia’s Brood and Children of Virtue and Vengeance before…
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Candice Carty-Williams: QUEENIE
Queenie Queenie Queenie…. The was the first book that the entire book club group enjoyed, even those who hadn’t read it all the way through. It was highly entertaining….and so, so cringy. The series of gross men and bad decisions that Queenie went through…I literally yelled at the book several times. The women in this…
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Book Club Update
Okay, I know you’ve been waiting for me to talk about Kathleen Collins’ Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary. We’ve officially rescheduled our book club meeting for this week Thursday. If all goes well, I’ll be giving you guys and gals my thoughts next week Monday. Fingers crossed. In the meantime, let me know what…
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