Tag: book review
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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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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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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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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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Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood & Bone
Happy Monday! I feel like talking about books is the best way to begin the week, don’t you? First, what I added to my “To Read” list last week: Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X – Russell J. Rickford Now for the meat & potatoes (though I’m currently limiting my meat to fish only. #thestruggleisreal) Children…
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