Book Reviews

The Cellar

Shoutout to COVID-19 for keeping me in the house and forcing me to pay attention to…
Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I need to preface this review by saying I, most unfortunately, abandoned…
My Sister, the Serial Killer

Though the title of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel may make you think it revolves around a…
The Nickel Boys

The perfect novel. This is my second Colson Whitehead novel (the first being The Underground Railroad,…
The System At Work

When Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries When They See Us took social media by storm on its…
To Be Young, Self-Destructive, and Black

(I need to preface this post by saying Queenie should win some kind of award for…
An American Marriage

As someone who spends way too much time on Twitter, I’ve been plagued with reading countless…
A Crash Course In Couture

I finally got around to reading Crazy Rich Asians! Kevin Kwan’s novel, the film adaptation of which took…
To Freedom

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad is a story we’ve heard before: an enslaved person runs away…
Having A Good Time: An Intricate Account Of the Life Of Freddie Mercury

When I saw a lipstick commercial last summer featuring Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” I didn’t know…