Day 4: Young Adult If you’ve been following me for a while you know I don’t really get into Young Adult so much. I feel like it’s written for young people so I don’t have to like it. This being said I had to think on what I had that was different from the typical […]
Day 19 – Celebrate Good Times I can’t think of a better way to celebrate good times other than with friend, family, great food and drink. So this cookbook Jubilee: Recipes from two centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton–Martin came immediately to mind. I have a thing for cookbooks. I can read […]
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. […]
Here’s another book that is on my 2018 TBR by an African-American writer called Jedah Mayberry. It’s a coming of age story. “It’s a lushly told reflection on a young man’s passage into manhood.” (back of The Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle) Check out the video below with an interview with Jedah Mayberry talking […]
I haven’t read many debut novels by African-American authors in the past few years, but The Hate U Give was published in 2017 and surprisingly enough had me gripped. As you know, I don’t usually read YA novels but I loved everything about what I was hearing from this book on audio. The Hate U […]
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