Category: Book Review
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The Regional Office is Under Attack
When I first heard of this book, the blurb was something like this: what if super powerful assassins stormed your office and you had a bionic arm? While that is a very small part of the story, it does setup a powerful image in your head and it’s what made me pick up this audiobook.…
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Runaways
On the Libby site for Brooklyn Public Library, you can see the latest recommendations from the librarians and this month there was an awesome focus on Pride Month. An ebook that caught my eye was Drama by Raina Telgemeier – a lovely middle grade graphic novel about kids doing the spring musical – and instead…
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Linden Hills
Not too long ago, a friend of mine lent me a copy of the Women of Brewster Place. As I had never read it, I was excited to dive in. Before I started though, she told me – this isn’t my favorite book by Gloria Naylor, I think some of her other novels are better.…
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24in48 Read: Electric Arches
I’ve had this for ages – and decided this time was a perfect time to read it. So much of it reminds me of being a little girl and so much reminds me of that awful adolescent and painful early adulthood I lived through. We are nothing alike, but I see myself in these pages.…
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There There and Drunk History
It always seems to me that historical knowledge comes in waves when picked up for, “discovery” and discussion. I read There, There a few m months ago and while I took the characters stories as events that mirror those of indigenous people living in America, I left it at that. This shows me, that my…
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Well Read Black Girl – An anthology – edited by Glory Edim
Hello my loves, I’ve been so lucky lately! I started off 2019 with two great reads and here is the first. This is a collection of black women looking back at their reading lives and discussing in their own style what has impacted them the most. Over and over again we see that in the…
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Song of Blood and Stone
I received a copy of Song of Blood and Bone (Earthsinger Chronicles, Book 1) by L. Penelope from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. If you take an epic fantasy novel, pepper it with gods and magic, add a lovely dose of love and sexiness and top it off with sibling drama you would…
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An American Marriage
So last summer I was lucky to attend the Well Read Black Girl festival in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Among many other fantastic speakers, Tayari Jones was on stage to talk about authorship and writing. She read an excerpt from this novel and I knew then I had to read this book. Usually, I have to…
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