Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins is best known for The Moonstone and The Woman in White, but I highly recommend this enjoyable social issues novel. The action keeps moving and the morals come quick and fast. Collins knew how to write a fully realized character and how to keep the reader's attention continuously … [Read more]
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
I've read the first book in this trilogy (Some Luck) two or three times and really enjoy its structure and descriptions of farm and internal life. I therefore read this second book with interest, but I don't think it was as good as the first one and I don't think I would reread it. I'm still going … [Read more]
A Library by Nikki Giovanni
My Poet by Patricia MacLauchlan
Words are important. There are all types: good, bad, ugly and the words chocolate (a most important one). And the below books are about words. On the surface, A Library by Nikki Giovanni is a silly little story about a young girl and the possibilities of the library she goes to. But it is more … [Read more]
Maya’s Song by Renee Watson
Maya’s momma was right. Maya was a preacher, a teacher. A Black girl whose voice chased away darkness, ushered in light. Maya’s Song is an introduction biography of Maya Angelou. Done in prose poetry, (most likely inspired by Angelou's own writing style. Though I am afraid I … [Read more]
Curse of the Chosen Volume two: The Will That Shapes the World by Alexis Deacon
WHAT THE FLAMING TORCHES DID I JUST READ? I could probably fill an entire review with comments like the one above for Curse of the Chosen Volume two: The Will That Shapes the World. This graphic novel by Alexis Deacon is just that, graphic in imagery and subject. It is not for the faint of … [Read more]
Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
It probably doesn't bode well for my enjoyment of the rest of this series to be earnestly relieved that this fifth book marks the end of the first phase of the series. I possess all the others, which generally means that I will stick it out, or at least have a hard time removing it from my to read … [Read more]
