Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby The Blind Side by Micheal Lewis Never Ran, Never Will by Albert Samaha When Pride Still Mattered by David Maranis Friday Night LIghts by Buss Bissinger The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 by George Howe Colt Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton When the Read more
A list of authors that have inspired me! Langston Hughes Richard Wright Toni Morrison Zora Neale Hurston Fredrick Douglass Alice Walker W.E.B Du Bois Ralph Ellison James Baldwin Alex Haley Amiri Baraka bell hooks Phillis Wheatley Lorraine Hansberry Nikki Giovanni Newer authors to read! They are definently worth picking up! Roxane Gay Octavia Butler The Read more
Novels: The Bluest Eye Sula Song of Solomon Tar Baby Beloved Jazz Paradise Love A Mercy Home God Help the Child Children’s Books (with Slade Morrison) The Big Box The Book of Mean People Remember: The Journey to School Intergration Who’s Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or Read more
For anyone not wanting spoilers, these posts will be labeled as spoilers. I will make the posts not visible unless you click on them. I tend to find out the book club selections earlier than they are released each month. I know some people do not like this while other do. I do as I Read more
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I am giving this book a 4.5 to 5 star review. What a book!!!! Her characters and mysteries are like no other. I could not wait to see what happened. I loved following the clues and piecing it together with the main character! This story is about family, redemption, survival in the family and the Read more
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When day comes we ask ourselves,where can we find light in this never-ending shade?The loss we carry,a sea we must wade.We’ve braved the belly of the beast,We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,and the norms and notionsof what just isisn’t always just-ice.And yet the dawn is oursbefore we knew it.Somehow we do it.Somehow we’ve weathered Read more
I am rating this book a 2 star review. Unpopular opinion: I really did not enjoy this book. I hated the characters and plot of this book. I really had to force myself to finish it. This book follows three generations of dysfunctional motherhood. It follows unloving mothers who abuse their children. You have Blythe’s Read more
Here is a list of all their book selections so far: “The Better Liar” by Tanen Jones “The Spider” by Barry Levine “Half Moon Bay” by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman “Pretty Things” by Janelle Brown “The Holdout” by Graham Moore “Natalie Wood” by Suzanne Finstad “The Ghosts of Eden Park” by Karen Abbott “The Other Read more
What a cute read! I did enjoy this one and could not wait for that happy ending! Daisy is happy to be single. Liam is also happy to be single. Daisy hates Liam as he stood her up for her prom. Daisy’s family is constantly trying to arrange her marriage. Liam gets offered the family Read more
I am rating this book a 4 star review. Five women who on a corporate hiking adventure and only 4 come out of the woods. The woman that is missing was working with Det. Falk to exposed the corporation on some illegal activities that would have everyone lose their jobs. Needless to say, everyone had Read more
I did not like this book as much as the 1st one. But it was enjoyable. This is not my typical genre. I am rating this book a 3.5- 4 star review. I do not want to give too much away as this is the 2nd in the series. But basically Elias and Laia are Read more
This book is written in verse and beautiful. This novel is really important for YA and adults to read alike. I am reviewing this book with a 4.5 star review. This is her memoir as a child growing up in South Carolina and Brooklyn as a young black girl in the 60s and 70s. She Read more
Book 1: An Ember in the Ashes Book 2: A Torch Against the Night Book 3: A Reaper at the Gates Book 4: A Sky Beyond the Storm Watch my blog for my reviews for each of them. As of 1/15/21, I finished book 1 and almost completed book 2. This is not my typical Read more
Thanks to the Netflix series as well as Shonda Rhimes (Greys Anatomy as well as other notable shows), people are in love with this series. Here are the books in order as well as a link to a family tree. Book 1: The Duke and I Book 2: The Viscount Who Loved Me Book 3: Read more
I am giving this book a 5 star review! I really enjoyed everything from the characters, mystery, and setting of this book! The story centers around two things that happen in a small town in Tasmania. The one event happened a decade before during a storm where 2 people died trying to rescue the main Read more
A complete list of Reese’s book selections as a check sheet is listed below.
I am giving this book a 3 or a 3.5 star review. This book is about the influenza of 1918 in Ireland. The setting is at a “motherhouse;” mothers who are inflicted with the “gripe” go here. The story is told from the nurse’s perspective and takes place for about 3 days in that ward. Read more
Thanks to Netgalley for this beauty! I mean look at that cover. I fell in love with Christina Lauren with Unhoneymooners and Holidaze. She is becoming one of my favorite authors. I cannot wait to read this one! My review will be on Netgalley, Goodreads, here on my blog and social media. Happy reading, Book Read more
Here is a list of all the books in a check list for anyone wanting to know.
Here is all her books for 2021. If anyone is interested. The book club will up for one year. She is to announce later if this will continue. Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew, Black Futures (January) Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby (February) Brandon Hobson, The Removed (March) Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk, Blood, Heat(April) Kaitlyn Greenridge, Libertie (May) Gabriela Read more
For a complete list of all of her books, click the PDF above.
I subscribe to the Book of the Month Club. I just started in June 2020. But I love it. I signed up to get an early release of Riley Sager’s new book in June instead of waiting until July. That is a perk to the club is early releases. But they are physical books and Read more
I was approved on Edelweiss for: The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson One by One by Ruth Ware Netgalley Outlawed by Anna North One Two Three by Laurie Frankel The Address Read more
