Hello folks! My first monthly “Wrap it up” is here!!! (Please click on pics for reviews) Welcome to you all, this is my January monthly reading wrap up! Just sharing with you, the 5 books I read this past month, and letting you know about my progress with my Goodreads challenge of 40 books for…
Category: Literary Fiction by People of Color
Book Review: “The Best of all Possible Worlds” by Karen Lord
Synopsis from   “The Best of all Possible Worlds” is one of this read that made me want to re-discover the sci-fi genre. If you are not into sci-fi and fancy going outside of your comfort zone this will be a nice start. Hope you enjoy my review Wow! I had not heard…
Book Review: “The Book of Unknown Americans” by Cristina Henriquez
Synopsis from   What a great read! This piece has definitely made it to my list of nominees for my “Best Read in 2015”!!! But since we’re talking about the end of the year there’s plenty of time for that so back to the book!! Could you tell what the book was about by…
Book Review: “The Moor’s Account” by Laila Lalami
I discovered @lailalalami this past year purely through this novel. I had not read her before. “The Moor’s Account” recounts the story of Mustafa who grew up in Morocco, became a merchant and then a slave during The Spanish conquest of the New World. I know very little about this time in history and…
Book Review: “Everything I never told you” by Celeste Ng
synopsis from I pretty much discovered Celeste Ng ( @pronounced_ing ) around the same time I discovered @rgay and was not surprised to learn that “Everything I never told you” was nominated as Amazon Book of the Year 2014. I suspect this piece will make it to a lot of people’s reading list in 2015….
Book Review: “An Untamed State” by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay! Roxane Gay! Roxane Gay! I am sure that I have read somewhere that 2014 is the year of Roxane Gay, but somehow I had to reach the end of the year to discover her. Well, I am glad I did and I have become a fan of @rgay like many I am…