Category: Book Talk
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Germophobe’s Guide to Library Books
I love libraries. I love books. I love having access to books from libraries for free. And so do lots of other people. I am the type of person who always has hand sanitizer in her bag. I also keep a little bottle of rubbing alcohol in my car and one next to my bed.…
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When Your Library Doesn’t Have It
So I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m trying really hard not to buy books that I can access for free, especially this year. I’m trying to curb my book junky-ism by being really selective about what I decide to buy, and I’ve been using my local library a lot since January. This is…
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Fighting Book Junky-ism
As you may know by now, I love books. I love the way a book feels in my hands, I love that new book smell, and I love flipping through pages as I read. I do have a problem though: I have neither the space nor the finances for every book I want to read.…
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Tananarive Due: The Black Rose
The Black Rose is a story of Madam Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, a hair culturist and one of the first Black female millionaire. In the simplest of summaries, Sarah Breedlove was the child of slaves, a washerwoman, a cook. She’d had problems with her hair most of her life. It was dry, itchy, and wouldn’t…
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2017 Reads
I can’t believe it’s the end of the year already! I’ve been contemplating whether I should write more or give this up, but I clearly haven’t made a firm decision. -_- Anyway, here’s a list of what I’ve read this year: One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Between the World and Me…
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What I’m Reading
I have FINALLY finished One Hundred Years of Solitude! It took me nearly a years to read because I couldn’t keep up with all the Arcadio Buendias. It was interesting though, and Marquez has a fantastic way with Magical Realism–like a trail of blood that flowed through the community to the mother’s house, or a…
Christine Gabrièlle 