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…
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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…
A Book to Talk About: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
But then I read it..and while yes, it is about those things, but it is so much deeper and more beautiful than that. It’s a love story between two friends that spans 30 years.
A Book to Talk About: All My Knotted-Up Life
For the past 20 years, Beth Moore has been in my eye-sight. While she doesn’t know me, I’ve known of her for a long time.
A Book to Talk About: The Did Not Finishes
Not every book we read is a winner. Some books are hard for us to get through. There could be a variety of reasons for this, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn’t speak about the quality of the book or your character at all. Today, in an act of full vulnerability, we’re…
