If you’ve followed me on here for a while you know there are two things I’m not so keen on reading. The first one is series and the second one is short story collections. Now it seems as if I’m turning over a new leaf with the later. Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson is my […]
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Day 5 – A historical fiction: Historical fiction is a genre I usually enjoy reading so I thought it would be easy to choose something from my shelves. Well it really took time. In the end, I decided on Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. This controversial novel definitely got people talking. I remember reading some rich blog […]
I hate expecting great things from a novel but as every page gets turned I feel a little let down. Ruby, not at all what I expected, is Cynthia Bond’s debut novel that explores the life of an African-American woman called Ruby Bell, who has mentally and physically broken down from plenty of neglect and abuse […]
I was reading when a notification popped up on my iPad. It read “Maya Angelou dead at 86”. I dropped everything in search of the article. I just couldn’t believe it. I still can’t believe it. Maya Angelou will be greatly missed. I heard someone say “My black feminist heart is weeping.” I couldn’t have […]
I can’t say I’ve read lots of books by Bernice L. McFadden. Actually I’ve only read two, Glorious and Gathering of Waters. Glorious was a story about a Harlem renaissance writer, which I enjoyed until it ended abruptly and left me searching for more. I embarked on Gathering of Waters for three reasons; 1. because […]
I’ve wanted to get my hands on this book for quite some time and the Clutch 2013 reading group on Goodreads gave me the shove I needed. Wench is the four-part story of Lizzie, Reenie, Sweet, and Mawu. They are more than wenches. In the beginning, before the novel really starts, Perkins-Valdez depicts the change […]
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