Blog page category dedicated to book reviews.
Get in here! Diane Marie Brown’s, Black Candle Women checks these boxes: black and female characters of varying ages, family secrets, voodoo and hoodoo magic, and R&B music references. If this rings any of your bells, give it a read.
Book Review/Reaction – Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown Read More »
If you are in the mood for an informative, reflective, and fast-paced read, I implore you to please pick up this book. The content of Wash Day Diaries was very relatable. I felt seen and uplifted.
Book Review – Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith Read More »
Imbued with emotion and reflection, Call and Response will supply readers with a front-row seat into Botswanan life. In 9 beautifully written, self-revelatory stories, we experience the inner turmoil and contradictions of embracing cultural traditions in post-colonial Botswana, inevitable shifts and changes in shared bonds between people, coming of age, navigating familial expectations, and the all too familiar event and memories of homecoming.
Be prepared to traverse around cities of Botswana, and witness the characters’ revelations of themselves as they answer their call.
Book Review – Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng Read More »
A family on the run, in need of money and shelter, but we don’t know why. Insert a haunted house, whose owner is willing to pay the father of said family, to stay there, but won’t go inside or stay in the house themselves. For the “right” amount of money, will he risk it all?
Would you stay in the spite house?
Book Review/Reaction – The Spite House by Johnny Compton Read More »
This short story collection evokes laughter, inspiration, and reflection, and cause pause and ponder as one considers conjuring the sheer amount of drive needed to emphatically say Angola is Wherever I Plant My Field.
