It’s been a rough week. In addition to being injured and dependent on my elderly mother for transportation and dealing with the pain of this stupid Achilles strain, which I don’t recommend at all. I’ve been getting around to doing some of those tasks that I don’t always […]
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, that New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith describes as “a book that left me breathless.” On a cold […]
A Constellation of Minor Bears Thank you to HarperCollins, Heartdrum, and Jenny Lu for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The indoor climbing […]
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man “You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is […]
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment. For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. […]
Dominoes Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: racist microaggressions, mention of enslavement, grief, discussion of police brutality and institutional racism, racism A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race […]
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you’re all charged up for 2024, because I decided to kick this year off with a bang. Today’s topic is separating authors from their art, and I figured it’s a good one, because this has come up a few times recently, and […]
The Reformatory Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery/Saga Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is […]
Normally, I stick to the prompt that’s given, but I just wasn’t feeling this week’s prompt (characters from different books who should team up). So I asked my nephew to come up with a different prompt for me (I’m a bit tapped out on topics lately). And he […]
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years–using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social […]
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