How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
All in all very thought provoking I thought. That is the main reason why I give this 5 stars. When Kendi loops in his own personal history and how his thinking changed from racist to anti-racist behavior it sometimes get muddled. And I will admit that I laughed out loud when he decided that the … [Read more]
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L Carter
This novel sort of answers the question of what if Dan Brown wrote a John Grisham novel. And well, the answer to that question is probably not that interesting ultimately, but this novel is a solid legal thriller with some suspense and historical fiction elements wrapped in it. The novel begins … [Read more]
Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
It's difficult to review this novel, and would be difficult to recommend it because the experience of reading it can be confusing and disorienting. Two other books kind of come to mind for me with this book, one that seemingly borrows some of the technique in this book and the other that clarifies … [Read more]
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Whenever I read James Baldwin, especially his essays, I think about how when he talks about Paris in the 40s and 50s (and so forth) as being a place in which he doesn't always have to be conscious of his race as a Black man (and especially an African-American). There's a part of me that gets it, but … [Read more]
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
I am not entirely sure what I mean by this but this is one of the most 1990s novels I could imagine. Other examples from American writers: Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries, Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, and basically any TS Boyle … [Read more]
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Look who has fallen behind in her reviews again. Big surprise, right? But I've been reading so much, and such great books that I can't really complain. This was the last book I read in January, and it just brought sunshine into my life. I did not pick this book up on purpose. I'd seen it in … [Read more]
