Books are forever! When I say that, I literally mean it. We can’t forget about books from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and even the early 2000s. Backlist books are still around and can shine light on our thirsty TBRs. I describe our TBRs as thirsty because they contain nothing more than the newest books […]
September has already started off with a book bang with Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone. This is not a new novel. It was published back in 2016. I don’t know what it is with backlist books but they always seem to hit the sweet spot. These days there are so many books coming out that it’s […]
Kindred takes place in 1976 and in 1815. Dana a young African-American woman periodically experiences dizziness and black outs which enable her to go back in time to 1815. The experience of going back to the slave days is shocking and terrible for her in the beginning. She is extremely distressed since she has no […]
Brown Girl Reading has made 9 years today. I can hardly believe it. So in honor of my blogging birthday I’m reposting one of my first reviews. You won’t believe it but I reviewed a zombie novel called Warm Bodies. Hated it! Surprise, surprise… Thank you all for reading, commenting, and supporting all these years. […]
Poetry is not something I pick up very much but in the past 4 years I’ve had the pleasure of reading some fantastic poetry collections. This year has started with Dear Ancestors Poems & Reflections on the African Diaspora by CP Patrick, author of the compelling novel The Truth About Awiti. There are poems in […]
Zane Pinchback, the light-skinned reporter from the black newspaper The New Holland Herald is back! The graphic novel Incognegro introduced us to Zane and the daring way he goes about writing stories about the lynchings that were taking place all over the south during the 1920s. Zane continues to use this approach in a new graphic […]
When I heard about the release of this American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, I knew I had to read it. I don’t often read poetry but when I do it’s because I’m sure the collection is going to move me. And this one did that and more. This collection was savvy, intelligent, […]
JJ Bola’s, debut novel, No Place To Call Home attentively develops the themes expected in a novel about refugees surviving in a strange new country. Bola touches on language, community, parent-child relationships, specifically father-son and father-daughter relationships, expectations of first generation African children, religion, moeurs, and most of all home. All of these subjects are catalysts for […]
The Unkind Hours is the latest exciting thriller from Dwayne Alexander Smith, the author of terribly underrated Forty Acres. (You need to read Forty Acres if you haven’t already!) We meet an ex-baseball player Steven who’s married to Nichole. They are happily married and have a little girl named Luna who is four years old. […]
Michael Eric Dyson is back with his newly released book today, What Truth Sounds Like. What Truth Sounds Like is Dyson’s continued discussion of race in America, carried over from his book last year called Tears We Cannot Stop A Sermon to White America. It was a book that was written specifically to speak to […]
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