Why did I wait so long to read this?! The world might never know. James by Percival Everett, a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, follows an enslaved man called Jim. When he learns that he is to be sold and thus separated from his wife and daughter, he decides to flee instead, in the …
Tag: Black culture
Book Review | The Cost of Knowing (ARC)
Why does no one talk about Brittney Morris more?! If you haven’t read her work, you are missing out! I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments …
Book Review | Concrete Rose (ARC)
I didn’t mean to read this entire book in a day, but... I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Concrete Rose, Maverick Carter thinks his life …
Book Review | Happily Ever Afters (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Happily Ever Afters, Tessa gets a fantastic opportunity to go to an art school and take classes about …
Book Review | Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is an essay/letter to the author’s son. In it, Coates speaks about growing up in Baltimore, about going to Howard University, about love and fear and police brutality, all in an effort to show his son what life is like as a black man in America. This …
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