Sometimes cool opportunities fall into your lap. Around the time I published my book, I was connected to a number of Indie authors around the county. One of them was Ben Avery… who then asked if I would be interested in being part of an anthology he was putting together. I knew nothing about writing…
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A Book to Talk About: I’m Glad my Mom Died
Man, we should gather to talk just about the title of this book. I read the memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy last week and I can’t stop thinking about it, for a lot of reasons. And I think this is a good book to talk about. However, what I want to…
A Book to Talk About: Fourth Wing
Today, we’re talking a little detour from the normal weekly blog post. Oh, yeah, there’s still a book to talk about, but I AM NOT recommending it for a book club. But I read it and I want to talk about it. If you’re on Bookstagram, you’ve probably seen it as you skimmed your feed….
A Book to Talk About: The Book of Joy
Have you ever read a book that just made you smile? Like, you read the words in the voices of the people speaking and a smile breaks across your face? This is how I felt for the whole of my reading of “The Book of Joy” by His Holiness the Dalia Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu…
A Book to Talk About: The All-American
Just in time for Labor Day, a book as American as apple pie. Maybe it should have been featured at a different summer holiday, but this is when I finished reading it–and it’s still baseball season and a book fits whatever season you read it. This book was just released this summer and it was…
A Book to Talk About: Babel: An Arcane History
So, after plugging away at it for a while, I finally finished Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang. While it was not the book that I had planned for today, but I just need to talk about it with someone. (Mild spoilers ahead.) This is the second book I purchased at a pop-up book…
A Book to Talk About: Lessons in Chemistry
Have you heard about Lessons in Chemistry yet? This book, released in 2022, was at the top of all the lists. It was talked about everywhere. It was so popular that I put it on my Christmas list without actually knowing much about it. So, if you haven’t gotten your hands on it yet, you…
A Book to Talk About: Project Hail Mary
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things was the Scholastic Book Fair. The teacher would send home the notice and I would do extra chores and scrounge my change so I could buy myself a new book. I would visit the little shop every chance I could during the three days it…
A Book to Talk About: The Unfortunate Life of Genevieve Ryder
I’m back!! It’s been a crazy few months launching my very first book!! And I thought that The Unfortunate Life of Genevieve Ryder would make a PERFECT book to talk about. After all, that’s one of my main goals for this book: that people read it and talk about it. Don’t have your own copy…
A Book to Talk About: The Other Black Girl
In the month of May 2023, in my book club, we read and discussed The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris. I like to use my reading to force me into other people’s perspectives and experiences, using books as a doorway to empathy and compassion where I would otherwise not know. From the back…
