Category: Books
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Friday Favorites – Summer Edition
It’s hard to believe that it’s September! It feels like it was yesterday that I was anxiously awaiting the start of my summer break and wondering what the fall would like. Well, fall is here and it looks pretty much the same way that the spring/summer did but at least we’ll have the beautiful trees […]
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August Wrap-Up
Although it seems like August was only a minute long, I still managed to read 13 amazing books and listen to one audiobook. I broke down my thoughts on each book on my Instagram page but wanted to add mini-reviews for each on here!
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When No One is Watching
“When I think of a Black community, the first thing that comes to mind – even if i don’t want it to – is crime. Drugs. Gangs. Welfare. That’s all the news has talked about since I was a kid. Not old people drinking tea. Not complex self-sustaining financial systems that had to be created because racism means being left out to dry.”
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The Last Story of Mina Lee
“Sometimes there was not one more hour, one more day, one more week in this life. Sometimes, all you had left was right now – the seconds ticking away.”
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The Exiles
“Sometimes I’m like a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is a moment that mattered to me, or someone I loved.”
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Feels like Falling
“Because when the chips are down as low as they can be, when you’re lying on the bathroom floor in the fetal position, there’s a bare-soul, uncomplicated sort of truth about who it is that you are longing to have there beside you.”
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American Royals II: Majesty
“…. it’s easier to believe in things, believe in people, when you read about them in books. They’re so much safer when they’re fictional. The real-life ones… i’m not sure how to handle them.”
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Little Disasters
“Why is it that, in the still small hours of the night, our fears are more heightened, and our deepest anxieties swim up from our subconscious?”
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The Switch
“It’s easy to forget, when you’re missing someone, that they’re more than just the person you remember: they have sides to themselves they only show when other people are around.”
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South of the Buttonwood Tree
“No one is perfect. We all have flaws. We all have strengths. The things we do in the name of love might not be our proudest moments, but they’re actions that come from the heart.”
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You Had Me at Hola
“Everyone thinks telenovelas are low budget and ridiculous, but it’s a huge industry. So much culture comes out through the stories and characters. There’s romance and angst, imagination and emotion.”
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The Night Swim
“It was Jenny’s death that killed my mother. Killed her as good as if she’d been shot in the chest with a twelve-gauge shotgun.”
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White Out
Thank you to the author, Danielle Girard, for gifting me a copy of her new book WHITE OUT. “After surviving a car accident on an icy road in Hagen, North Dakota, Lily Baker regains consciousness with no idea where or who she is. Scattered Bible verses and the image of a man lying in a […]
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He Started It
“You want a heroine. Someone to root for, to identify with. She can’t be perfect, though, because that’ll just make you feel bad about yourself. A flawed heroine, then. Someone who may break the rules to protect her family but doesn’t kill anyone unless it’s self-defense. Not murder, though, at least not the cold-blooded kind. That’s the first deal breaker..”
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What You Wish For
“She knew better than to let a little pain hold her back. She knew that joy and sorrow walked side by side. She knew that being alive meant risking one for the other. And she also knew, as I was starting to understand.. that it was always better to dance than to refuse.”
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Mexican Gothic
“Driven to madness, driven to anger, driven to despair, and even now a sliver of that woman remained, and that sliver was still screaming in agony.”
The Bookend Diner 