Day 10: True Life I began reading The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison last year. It’s been an amazing endeavour reading and learning about him. I have a love of letters and reading epistolary formatted books. Epistolary novels aren’t as prevalent these days as they were in the past. This being said a girl can […]
I had the pleasure of reading Blues to Blessings: Moving from Fearful to Faithful by Suzette Webb at the beginning of this year. I don’t usually read books like this which would be classified as self-help, but this one I found interesting and I could see how it could be a big help to a […]
Scrolling through my Instagram feed this morning I came across the announcement of the OCM Bocas Prize 2020 Longlist (9 longlist nominees), which I hadn’t heard of this prize. This OCM Bocas Prize was first launched in 2011 and it awards Caribbean authors who hold citizenship or were born in the Caribbean. Each category will […]
24 Books to Christmas is really making me look back on my past reading. There are so many really great books that I’ve read in the recent past but also in the far away past. I decided to go with The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race for day 4. The Fire This […]
Like who doesn’t want to read any of these four? Awesome! I’m expecting loads from all four of them. I hope not to be disappointed. These should all give me lots of food for thought. Which new releases are you anticipating? I’m an affiliate for The Book Depository. It would be much appreciated to click […]
I read these 2 memoirs amazing memoirs last year. They both touched me in different ways and I don’t think I’ll be able to forget them any time soon. You all know how I feel about Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay – powerful, poignant, unflinchingly honest, and full of teachable moments for everyone, and […]
Had to go with this amazing book, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro. I’ve started reading since Saturday. 100 Amazing Facts About The Negro is the newly published (2017) nonfiction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which is based on the first edition from 1957 by Joel Augustus Rogers entitled « A Negro Believe It Or Not ». […]
It was approximately five months ago that my book club was speaking about race since we were discussing Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I found myself being the unique reference since I was the only black person in the room. Scary. That brought home the idea that black people are not a monolith.Everybody else is […]
The inauguration of the newly elected president of America is upon us. Racism has shown to be very alive and well in the United States, contrary to popular belief. People are all questioning how we could go from President Barak Obama to what was elected on November 7, 2016. Deep down I think we all […]
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