I’ve been ignoring this blog for way too long. Part of the problem is I want to review all the books I have read this…
Top 5 Tuesday – Series Completion
When I say this weeks topic for Top 5 Tuesday’s I was about to skip it. It’s not that I am not in the middle…
Friday Finds | June 18, 2020
Lately, I’ve been craving a little romance in my reads. So, this week’s Friday Find is romance.
Review | What’s Left of Me is Yours
The story of a daughter finding out the story she was told about her mother’s death may have been a lie to cover up a possible scandal. Set against the backdrop of 1990’s Japan, an engaging story of family, romance, and deception.
Review | She Wears the Mask
The Synopsis Gripping and moving, She Wears the Mask is a novel about two women from two very different worlds, both burdened with secrets from…
Review | Not Without Laughter
The Synopsis Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes proves himself one of modern literature’s most revered…
Review | Push
The Synopsis Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters…
Review | The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
A hard hitting story of a family struggling to come to terms with the past as their lives take an unexpected turn. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls explores what happens when the facade of a family revered by friends and neighbors shatters.
Mini Review #1 | Historical Fiction
A mini review of three historical fiction novels. There is a Pulitzer Prize winning story set in pre-Civil War Virginia, a family drama set during the Nigerian War, and a coming of age tale set in Mississippi during the Civil Right Movement.