***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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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”
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”
Descendants of Wood and Water: A Book Review – “James” by Percival Everett
–In the Beginning– This will likely be more than a book review, as this book is more than a book. It’s a love letter of sorts, perhaps even a postcard sent from abroad, a Polaroid snapshot of a renamed landscape encompassing both past and future. Everett deserves all of the accolades garnered. Let me startContinue reading “Descendants of Wood and Water: A Book Review – “James” by Percival Everett”
Window Pains: A Book Review – “Holler, Child” by LaToya Watkins
There are eleven heart-moving stories placed into this collection by Texas author LaToya Watkins. Each story is tossed at the reader in an endearing manner; a manner that sets the reader up to succeed – to catch, to understand and to answer back truthfully with their own mental and emotional grasp and release. There areContinue reading “Window Pains: A Book Review – “Holler, Child” by LaToya Watkins”
