I chose to read Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo, as I was looking for a lighter read following some heavier reads I had read recently. I particularly enjoyed the narration by Adjoa Andoh, who many of you will know her as Lady Danbury from Bridgerton. She brought her character acting that I’m familiar from […]
The original blurb for “The Other Black Girl”, the debut novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris described it as Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada, and this is one of the reasons that piqued my interest. The yellow cover with two broken teeth on an Afro pick was the other reason I thought this book […]
Once again, I was drawn to a book because of its cover, and what a stunning cover it is. Firekeeper’s Daughter is the YA debut novel by Angeline Boulley and narrated by Isabella Star La Blanc. It tells the story of Duanis, an Ojibwe teenage girl who ends up assisting the FBI, as an informant […]
“…We humans are reckless with our bodies, reckless with our lives, for no other reason than that we want to know what would happen, what it might feel like to brush up against death, to run right up to the edge of our lives, which is, in some ways, to live fully.” Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa […]
