Nancy Mitford’s Love In A Cold Climate is considered a companion volume to The Pursuit of Love. But it can be read as a stand-alone work. In which case, it may just take the reader a little longer to figure out who some of the characters are and what their relationship is to one another.Continue reading “Book Review Time: Love In A Cold Climate”
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Book Review Time: Whatever Happened To Interracial Love?
This book of short stories comes with its own interesting backstory. Kathleen Collins was a playwright and filmmaker, with notable credits to her name. In 1982, she wrote and directed a film called Losing Ground. It was one of the first feature films to be made by an African-American woman. It was and continues toContinue reading “Book Review Time: Whatever Happened To Interracial Love?”
Book Review Time: A Novel Bookstore
Full disclosure, I’m a huge fan of Europa Editions and the works they publish. The Elegance of The Hedgehog, Farewell My Orange, A Girl Returned, and don’t even get me started with just about every title with Elena Ferrante’s name next to it. Europa puts out great material, plain and simple. They introduce to AmericanContinue reading “Book Review Time: A Novel Bookstore”
Book Review Time: Red, White, and Royal Blue
This book has received a lot of attention in the bookstagram world. There’s rarely a day that goes by that I don’t see a photo of Red, White, and Royal Blue accompanied with words of ringing praise as I scroll through the social media outlet. Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to this book, IContinue reading “Book Review Time: Red, White, and Royal Blue”
Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Every year I need to have my Jane Austen fix. The last few years, it’s been Pride and Prejudice. But this is the year of Persuasion. Austen’s female characters usually have some distinctive flaw that drives the storyline, and gets them into varying degrees of trouble. Elizabeth was too proud. Maryanne, too impulsive. Elinor, tooContinue reading “Jane Austen’s Persuasion”
Book Review Time: Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy Jones & The Six reads like a “Behind The Music” documentary. It’s told in the form of an oral history and documents the meteoric rise of the eponymous rock n’ roll band as well as the events leading to their abrupt and mysterious disbandment in the late seventies. Many reviewers have noted the similaritiesContinue reading “Book Review Time: Daisy Jones & The Six”
Book Review Time: Cooking With Fernet Branca
Have you ever read a book that was so off-the-wall ridiculous, it left you feeling giddy and slightly disoriented. A feeling that one could liken to a night spent in Dali-esque semi-consciousness with the Benny Hill theme song playing as backdrop? If you haven’t, Cooking With Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Patterson, may provide you withContinue reading “Book Review Time: Cooking With Fernet Branca”
Book Review Time: Children Of Virtue And Vengeance
After reading Children Of Blood And Bone (the first book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy,) I had zero-hesitancy jumping into the next book. Tomi Adeyemi’s Children Of Virtue And Vengeance picks up pretty closely from where the previous story left off. Zelie, with help from Amari, Tzain, and others, has completed her mission ofContinue reading “Book Review Time: Children Of Virtue And Vengeance”
Book Review Time: Children Of Blood And Bone
I probably won’t be able to fully express how much I absolutely loved Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone. It’s action-packed!!! And it’s filled with all the elements that make for great drama. There’s family loyalty and obligation; conflicts and betrayals; politics and power struggles; romance and trust issues; love and loss. But whatContinue reading “Book Review Time: Children Of Blood And Bone”