September ’24

Saturn Returns

To Be Young, Self-Destructive, and Black

(I need to preface this post by saying Queenie should win some kind of award for its cover. I mean LOOK at that art! The nanosecond I laid eyes on that cover I knew I had to read this book, I didn’t even bother reading what in the world it was about.) If you’re looking…
An American Marriage

As someone who spends way too much time on Twitter, I’ve been plagued with reading countless arguments about whether it’s a good thing or the “right” thing for a woman to continue a relationship with a man who goes to prison. Each side of said argument thinks they’re right and the other is wrong, naturally,…
A Crash Course In Couture

I finally got around to reading Crazy Rich Asians! Kevin Kwan’s novel, the film adaptation of which took Hollywood by storm this past August (and I still haven’t seen) has been on my to-read list since around October, but I kept pushing it back because my method of choosing books to read is literally eenie meenie monie…
To Freedom

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad is a story we’ve heard before: an enslaved person runs away from a lifetime of forced servitude in pursuit of freedom. However, in Whitehead’s adaptation, the means of escape in this novel is anything but metaphorical; the Underground Railroad is a literal railroad underneath southern soil with conductors and passage…
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 at the time it was a Queen song, but I knew I had heard the singer’s voice somewhere before. Sure enough, the voice belonged to Freddie Mercury, rock and roll’s most flamboyant and legendary frontman, and from the day…
Fall In Love with Reading (Again)

First post of 2019, woo! Happy New Year, guys! I’ve said before that thanks to school and work and general laziness, reading was much less a priority for me since high school than ever. However, since summer ’18, I’ve managed to make my way through more books than I have since 2013 and it’s been…