Hi, friends! Thanks for joining me today; I’m so glad you’re here 💙. Today I’m sharing my review of Margaret Atwood’s 2020 poetry book: Dearly. Despite containing several gorgeous poems, the anthology as a whole is overshadowed by the handful of pieces with questionable implications. Still, Atwood’s inspiration radiates in the breadth of work featured in…
Full-Length Book Reviews
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Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark ★ Book Review
Hi, friends! Thanks for joining me today; I’m so glad you’re here 💙. Today I’m sharing my review of Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark. Ring Shout features a masterful blend of historical fiction and real-life horror, as well as important themes that are as relevant in the story’s 1922 setting as they are today. With all that, it’s…
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ★ Book Review
Hi, friends! Thanks for joining me today; I’m so glad you’re here 💙. Today I’m sharing my review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel: Never Let Me Go. I didn’t really love this one, and I was hesitant to write a mostly negative review, but it ended up being an interesting case study, and I’m really…
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides ★ Book Review
Hi, friends! Thanks for joining me today; I’m so glad you’re here 💙. Today I’m sharing my thoughts on Alex Michaelides’s debut novel: The Silent Patient. Despite the writing many of the familiar pitfalls of a debut novel and side characters who fade in and out of existence as needed, The Silent Patient infuses a…
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ★ Book Review
Hi, friends! Thanks for joining me today; I’m so glad you’re here 💙. Today I’m sharing my review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, Between the World and Me. Undoubtedly heartfelt and profoundly introspective, Coates attempts to answer the question: what does it mean to inhabit a Black body, and how does one reckon with all that…