5 out of 5 stars ★★★★★ Synopsis: The controversial story before the story continues in the critically acclaimed and award-winning series The Original Sinners. For years, Kingsley Edge warned Eleanor the day would come when she, the mistress of a well-respected Catholic priest, would have to run and hide. She always imagined if that … Continue reading REVIEW: The Virgin, by Tiffany Reisz
5 out of 5 stars ★★★★★ Synopsis: A novel in verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow … Continue reading The Backlist: Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
I met Bernice McFadden at a reading and panel discussion a couple years ago. The brief conversation we had inspired my Master’s thesis. I’d already read both Sugar and This Bitter Earth by that time, so I was a little star-struck. But, a friendlier and more open woman you will not meet. So, thank you Ms. … Continue reading #fbf to Being Completely Enamored of a Book and its Author
Recently, Andrew Smith, a YA writer and author of The Grasshopper Jungle and The Alex Crow, did an interview with VICE which he made some controversial comments: I was raised in a family with four boys, and I absolutely did not know anything about girls at all. I have a daughter now; she’s 17. When … Continue reading Addressing Sexism in Writing and Publishing
Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Synopsis: No strings. No regrets. And no going back. I didn’t think he wanted me. And I wasn’t about to get involved with him, not after what I’d heard. Sure, Alex Kennedy was tall, dark and unbearably hot, but I’ve been burned before. When I solicited him to … Continue reading Re-Read: Naked by Megan Hart
Around the World in 80 Books 