I posted a review of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing earlier this year. I tried my best to express how deeply I was impacted by the novel. Homegoing is grand in scope-a multi-generational, trans-continental, saga. It explores the African and diasporic experience, examining the atrocities of tribal strife, colonialism, slavery, and institutionalized racism. It’s painful in itsContinue reading “Book Review Time: Transcendent Kingdom”
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Book Review Time: News Of The World
I first read Paulette Jiles’ News Of The World a few years ago. I remember at the time thinking how much my dad would enjoy the story. He’s not a bookish man, but he is one of the best story-tellers I know. Engaging and comical, with spot-on timing. He has a bit of the entertainerContinue reading “Book Review Time: News Of The World”
Book Review Time: The Study of Animal Languages
I’ve been avoiding writing this review. With each passing day, yet another opportunity lost to procrastination. But it’s time to buck up and get it over with. It’s not that The Study of Animal Languages is a bad book, quite the contrary. It’s well-written, smart, and at times, unexpectedly comical. And it is anchored byContinue reading “Book Review Time: The Study of Animal Languages”
Book Review Time: Ehrengard
Once upon time there lived a young maiden called Ehrengard. She came from a warrior clan. Her carriage–steely, as was her resolve. A Valkyrie, Ehrengard was. One day she was called upon to assist in an act of royal intrigue. A pampered princess with child and a delivery date that doesn’t quite square with herContinue reading “Book Review Time: Ehrengard”
Book Review Time: what are you going through
It’s important to have a healthy amount of self-awareness. Depending on the audience, and perhaps the situation, measuring what we say; how we act and react, may be necessary. Of course, this requires a bit of skill. One must certainly avoid disingenuousness. In matters of great import, it is often the wiser course to speakContinue reading “Book Review Time: what are you going through”
Book Review Time: The Overstory
It’s been awhile, no? I’m not silly nor pompous enough to believe you all have been waiting in hopeless anticipation for my next book review. But I do think it’s only right that I provide some form of explanation for my weeks-long absence. Plain and simple…it was life. Or at least, life as we knowContinue reading “Book Review Time: The Overstory”
Book Review Time: Song For Anninho
Almeyda rests, recovering. The wounds she sustained to her chest are severe. Almeyda was discovered by a medicine woman, unconscious and disfigured. Now, the medicine woman carefully tends to her injuries. With trust well earned, Almeyda confides to this woman, Zibrata. She reveals to her the story of her life; how she came to beContinue reading “Book Review Time: Song For Anninho”
Book Review Time: The Night Swimmers
My book review process has developed into a set pattern that works really well for me. I read a book of my choosing (although I have accepted submissions in the past.) Once I’ve finished, I give myself a day or two. Just a little time to let the full story sink in. An opportunity toContinue reading “Book Review Time: The Night Swimmers”
Book Review Time: That Hair
The history of my hair and I may sound like a long-fought war to some. Picture me, as a young girl. There’s also a woman in the frame. She has been entrusted by my mother to render the task. I’m sitting in a chair. The woman is standing behind me. She has parted my hairContinue reading “Book Review Time: That Hair”
Book Review Time: Paris Never Leaves You
Charlotte Foret is in a dangerously vulnerable position. She is a French widow living in Paris during the German Occupation. Food is as scarce as reliable intel concerning the war effort. And German soldiers (with willing assistance from local gendarmes) can at any moment, decide to round-up French citizens, carting them off to places unknown;Continue reading “Book Review Time: Paris Never Leaves You”