By: Elizabeth Strout Because I like to go into books mostly blind, I, didn’t necessarily do my homework on this one. This was actually the last book I bought in 2019, before beginning this challenge in 2020. I didn’t realize that it was a sequel, and I...
By: Anthony “Ray” Hinton The Sun Does Shine is a heartbreaking memoir of a man who spent 30 years in a 6 foot by 9 foot cell in Holman Correctional’s Death Row for crimes that he didn’t commit. Ray was 29 when he was sentenced to death for...
By: Yaa Gyasi Wooooow. What a book. I was hooked from page 1, and stayed hooked throughout the entire novel. I say “novel,” and it is, but it really is essentially a collection of short stories that follow a variety of characters through the three hundred...
Happy Women’s History Month! February was rough and I only got one additional book in. Between work and work and running around, I intended to read about 6 books, and I just did not make it very far in any of them. I also attempted to take on The People’s...
By: Candice Carty-Williams Ha! On the front cover there is a review that says that Queenie is Americanah meets Bridget Jones Diary, and I am just not sure of that at all! It felt more like Fleabag with a black protagonist. It was, in some ways, very funny. Queenie is...