***Spoiler Alert: if you have not yet read Kin, please kindly come back to this review after finishing! Thank ya!*** Rock-A-Bye Baby What the heck happened? It is both a simple and a complex question to ask. The inquiry implies something expected, tangible even…and being met with the opposite. It is this question that stoodContinue reading “Humbled Cadillacs: A Book Review – “Kin” by Tayari Jones”
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🎶 I Choose You, I Do 🎵
There are years in my life where music goes silent. It is usually paired with major life events. I can remember Int’l Players Anthem – UGK coming out in 2007 (nursing school graduation) and literally not having it in my musical hemisphere until 2-3 years later. It played maybe during a CIAA event I attended.Continue reading “🎶 I Choose You, I Do 🎵”
Get Here If You Can: A Book Review – “Zeal” by Morgan Jerkins
Zeal /zēl/ – powerful fervor in/whilst aiming to achieve (a mostly common) goal. Jerkins writes as if she’s stood in the historical bowels of Henry Louis Gates’ “Finding Your Roots”; had a conversation with the roaming ancestors guarding precious truths. Zeal is a call and response between the choir and congregation – the elders spreadContinue reading “Get Here If You Can: A Book Review – “Zeal” by Morgan Jerkins”
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That’s my name. First (and last) thing to ever belong to me. For, even my first and last breath, I was forced to release.
34 Chapters: A Book Review – “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The reading list for 2025 was a heavy one for me. So much so, that I vowed the last one of the year would be a romance novel. As if romance is somehow less heavy? With all of the vowing and pushing and pulling, the last novel of 2025 still chose me. Shifting around theContinue reading “34 Chapters: A Book Review – “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates”
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