"I need to keep up the act that I have been keeping up successfully for three years. You are allowed to have your own identity. I have to create mine." -The Gilded Years, Karin Tanabe The moment you realize the book you're reading has your mind spinning, your heart racing with the gravity of a … Continue reading The Gilded Years – Review
The best of 2019 continues, I am trying not to take the whole of January 2020 to share everything but I also don't want to spam anyone. Lesson learned, I will plan better to have these done in December but sometimes that's hard when you're trying to finish just one more book. STAND BY YOUR … Continue reading Best of 2019 – Nonfiction
Thank you to Penguin Classics for gifting this book to feature and review. "What, indeed, was fifty, sixty or seventy dollars when one was leaving behind insult, ostracism, segregation and discrimination?" There is much to discuss in the pages of this satire and I'm not sure if I'm ready. But I want to give it … Continue reading Black No More – Review
I'm back with the next installment for my best of 2019, I wanted to wait a few days to share my favorite fiction reads including short stories and historical fiction. Three of the books on this list were published this year. UNMARRIAGEABLE by Soniah Kamal “Jane Austen is ruthless when it comes to drawing-room hypocrisy. … Continue reading Best of 2019 – Fiction
As 2019 ends (ended) and we're 3 days into 2020, I have been busy writing to share the books the fall into the best of the year. Reading 111 books isn't bad, but makes it somewhat of a challenge to narrow down my favorites into just one post, like I did last year. But when … Continue reading Best of 2019 – Classics
"Elwood never ceased to marvel how you could walk around and get used to seeing only a fraction of the world. Not knowing you only saw a sliver of the real thing." I don't often, matter of fact, I don't think I've ever, pre-ordered a book. But I promptly and without hesitation pre-ordered Colson Whitehead’s … Continue reading The Nickel Boys – Review
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness." Why hello there Dantès! I thought it would be nice to reach out to you, telling you about the epic … Continue reading The Count of Monte Cristo – Review
"You don’t know, sir, what I suffer. You don’t know the struggle going on in my heart and mind." - The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas Tulips are a BIG deal in the Netherlands. I discovered that when I visited a few months ago. So when I started reading this book, I felt like I'd been … Continue reading The Black Tulip- Review
"And the wind never will blow all life away, you just got to find a way to live in the wake of that wind. Cause it leaves a wake, full of trash flying around everywhere." There are few who can craft and create as J. California Cooper does. Her work should be savored while you … Continue reading The Wake of the Wind – Review
Hello blog buddies! I'm back with an unpopular opinion on a book I recently attempted to read but stopped and DNF (did not finish). Let's jump right into things. "Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience." As black people in America, our histories are complex, our present and future, bright and hopeful, … Continue reading An American Marriage – Review
