Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Death, Parent with dementia After a school presentation goes drastically awry, Alaine is shipped to Haiti to spend quality time with her aunt and her estranged mother, also newly exiled to the country of her birth after her own outburst. But there are … Continue reading Book Review: Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
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Book Review: How Long ’til Black Future Month?
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 A collection of science fiction master N K Jemisin's short stories, from her early career (although she refuses to release her teenage novels and remind us that she is human) to now. This was fantastic, with many five or six star short stories that had … Continue reading Book Review: How Long ’til Black Future Month?
(TAG) End of Autumn Recap
I was tagged by the awesome Faith of You Are What You Read (who has a lot of friends btw not just me and Nana) to do this book tag! Books being talked about are what was read this autumn...and I'll stick with Faith and go with what I read from September through November. The … Continue reading (TAG) End of Autumn Recap
My Favorite Queer SFF of 2019!
2019 has been a fantastic year for queer science fiction and fantasy, especially for queer women! And to celebrate, I'm going to highlight my favorite queer SFF 2019 releases—oh who am I kidding? All of them were excellent (even the ones I rated three stars)! Lots of time traveling, a plethora of nuns in space, … Continue reading My Favorite Queer SFF of 2019!
Book Review: Cub
Cub by Cynthia Copeland 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 An absolutely adorable middle grade graphic memoir about growing up and finding your voice! Cindy Copeland loves to write, but has never met a woman writer! When her English teacher hooks her up with an internship with a reporter for the local paper, Cindy starts to hone her craft, learn … Continue reading Book Review: Cub
Book Review: The Downstairs Girl
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 By day, Jo is a maid to the spoiled daughter of the wealthiest man in Atlanta. By night, she's agony aunt Miss Sweetie—viciously spearing down racists, misogynists and white feminists with the power of her pen. This is probably one of my favorite books of 2019 (fuck I … Continue reading Book Review: The Downstairs Girl
Mid-Month Musings: December 2019
So. Close. To. 200. This has become my white whale, my windmill, my moon in the distant sky. 7 books left. So far this month I've read 8 books, and they've all been really great! All Wrapped Up So far everything has been a four or five star read! I just hope to keep this … Continue reading Mid-Month Musings: December 2019
Books I Want to Reread in 2020
This past year I was buried in 2019 releases and 2019 ARCs, and I kept having a hankering for re-reading old favorites. But I had a TBR ten miles long and quite a bit of a time-crunch, particularly towards the end of the year. So many books, so little time, amiright? One of my 2020 … Continue reading Books I Want to Reread in 2020
Book Review: All-American Muslim Girl
All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Allie has a secret. Well, not so much a secret but something she doesn't share: she's a Muslim. But she doesn't practice her religion, and as a Circassian-American passing as white, she can hide her religious background. Her parents aren't religious either, and yet Allie feels like … Continue reading Book Review: All-American Muslim Girl
Book Review: The Simple Wild
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Cancer in a parent In one day, Calla Fletcher's life has gone from okay to awful. She's lost her job, her instagram account is going nowhere, and her deadbeat bush pilot dad has popped up out of the blue to say that he has cancer. Rather—his new … Continue reading Book Review: The Simple Wild
The Suspected Bibliophile 