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  • Banned Books Week: Be Proud to be Banned

    Today, I’d like to highlight one of my favorite authors: Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison’s work to me has been these haunting tales of loneliness, sacrifice, desperation, and turmoil. Set during some of the most difficult times for black Americans, Toni Morrison has this incredible way of making you feel and understand what it must have…

  • Welcome to Banned Books Week!

    Happy Banned Books Week and it’s going to be a good one. This year’s theme is “the freedom to read,” which feels oddly relevant given that everyone has been talking about. Censorship is always around us telling us what to do and what to think and how to say things. It’s the faceless folks that…

  • The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas

    I picked up Joan from the bookstore the day before it was supposed to appear on the shelves of every bookstore in the country. I searched through Strand because it wasn’t something displayed just yet on the mounds of book tables in front of the store. No, Joan was a little secret left to those…

  • Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert

    Imagine you’re in high school. Now imagine you’re in high school coming to terms with your sexual preference, your decisions for school, your religious identity. Now imagine that you have a brother who is bipolar and you love him to death and you want to make sure he’s okay. LITTLE AND LION by Brandy Colbert…

  • My First Amazon Books Experience

    I was walking to the train the other day from a bridal shower my sister threw for me. The shower was a great time and we walked around and looked at expensive clothes I can never be able to afford. And as I was making my way down to the train station, I walked across…

  • Eight celebrities who love to read

    I love it when I find out that a celebrity is a book reader. Something happens to me where I light up and almost feel closer to that person even though I’ve never met them in real life. I do hope that one day that I do, but for now I can only dream. Perhaps…

  • Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

    TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains themes related to childlessness and child loss. Please proceed with caution if you are sensitive to this type of material. This is most definitely the year of diverse reads. I’ve read so many great novels in the past eight months about other cultures, other people, other gender identities, and everything…

  • Things that Happened Before the Earthquake by Chiara Barzini

    “California girls, we’re undeniable. Fun, fresh, fierce, we’ve got it on lock.” – Katy Perry When you think of California, you think of that easy breezy place where everyone surfs and eats vegan and worries more about how they’re composting than how people in the middle of the country are starving. However, California has its…

  • The importance of sharing diverse novels

    This world is huge. Massive. There are so many cultures of people represented on this speck in the sky and all of them have their traditions and heritages and lifestyle. They also struggle. They all struggle. And struggle for some reason brings us a host of stories. There’s this famous quote that writers all around…

  • #BADASSBOOKBABES – @bookish.harpy

    Every month, I feature a young person who loves to read. It could be about diversity, gender identity, being a human, being a reader. It’s to highlight some people who love to hug a book and imagine a better world for everyone. Why call yourself a reader when you can be a #badassbookbabe? This month,…