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Book Spotlight: Have You Met Nora? by Nicole Blades
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave You Met Nora?I met Nora and she so messed up, I like Nora and I sort of want to grab her and shake here. I am currently reading this…
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Excerpt The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Reading Time: 2 minutesBelated Happy Publication Day for The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia! Is that even a term? If it isn’t let’s make it one. Well The Beautiful Ones is out on…
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Book Reviews: Tackling Grief with Danticat and Clemmons
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn September I read two books that explored grief and death in very distinct and different ways. These books were Untwine by Edwidge Danticat and What We Lose by Zinzi…
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Book Review: Robot Coconut Trees by Kelsey Horton
Reading Time: 3 minutesI read a writers’ self-help book. This is best description I have for Robot Coconut Trees: Break Through Writer’s Block, Unleash Your Creative Voice and Become The Writer You Already…
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Book review: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you read Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia? I did it was filled with Mexican City vampires and death and blood and gore and well The Beautiful Ones is…
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Book Review: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Reading Time: 4 minutesI loved Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. The book is the best I read in 2017 (go far). Homegoing was one of the biggest and buzziest books published in 2016 and…
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Let Me Reintroduce Myself and My Jamaican Vignettes
Reading Time: 5 minutesHappy Sunday! I have avoided Sunday personal essays for several weeks (OK it’s been months). In fact, I have been avoiding My Jamaican Vignettes, the core of what this column/blog/personal essay…