At first I though this would be a fluff piece of life as viewed by a wealthy old woman living in the past, but soon I was hooked. I was intrigued because I saw some personality similarities between my great aunt and the narrator Judith Kraft. I had falsely assumed this was another fluffy, eccentric … Continue reading Summer Reading: The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt & Local Girls
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Summer Reading: Saint X & The Other Black Girl
Saint X is a BEACH READ! I did not leisurely read this one beachside, but I still managed to read it in two and half days at over my lunch break, in the pool after work and in bed until my eyes would not stay open. I found this story of a young, beautiful, blonde … Continue reading Summer Reading: Saint X & The Other Black Girl
Book Review: Juliet Takes a Breath
I first heard of Gabby Rivera when she was a guest on Brene Brown’s “Unlocking Us” podcast where they talked about “how and why it’s so important for us to see ourselves as the hero in the hero’s journey,” Marvel superheroes, food and joy. I enjoyed the conversation so much that I added Gabby’s novel to my … Continue reading Book Review: Juliet Takes a Breath
Beach Reading: Last Train to Key West and The Alice Network
Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton I picked this up because of how much I enjoyed her beach read “Next Year in Havana.” This was a completely enjoyable yet predictable book about three women in Key West during the devastating 1935 hurricane. I give her bonus points for capturing my attention enough that … Continue reading Beach Reading: Last Train to Key West and The Alice Network
Such a Fun Age
Stop me if you saw this on Twitter, a young African America woman and her bestie are in a grocery store late at night with a white toddler. The women, dressed as women in their early 20’s dress for a night out, are dancing with the toddler. A middle-aged female customer and store security detain … Continue reading Such a Fun Age
One Good Mama Bone
“Lord, I reckon I’m not much just by myself,I fail to do a lot of things I ought to do.But Lord, when trails are steep and passes high,Help me ride it straight the whole way through. And when in the falling dusk I get that final call,I do not care how many flowers they send,Above … Continue reading One Good Mama Bone
Watchman
"For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." - Isaiah 21:6 Like millions of others, To Kill a Mockingbird was the first book that reached out and grabbed me. Because of the bond I developed in 1979 in my 8th grade English class with this … Continue reading Watchman
Zora Neale Hurston: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
“One of the greatest writers of our time,” Toni Morrison “Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick” is a collection of short stories written by Hurston between 1921 and 1937 shows the genius of the woman who wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in 1936. Several of the 21 short stories are considered “lost” … Continue reading Zora Neale Hurston: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Book Review: The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
A few years ago a friend and I were watching a movie when I realized that certain plot points did not make sense and I voiced my observations. She stopped the movie to ask if I was enjoying it, I was. And she asked it I wanted to stop watching, I did not. She then … Continue reading Book Review: The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
Book Review: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The Giver of Stars
Until recently I had never heard of the Pack Horse Library, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), that used women to be book mobiles on horse/mule-back in the Appalachian region of Kentucky from 1935 to 1943. The timing of the library wait list gave me the audio versions of The Book Woman of … Continue reading Book Review: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The Giver of Stars
