I’m Reading….Invention of Wings
I really enjoyed this book. I will say the beginning when the two main characters, Sarah Grimke and Hetty “Handful” Grimke were young was slow but very telling. As they two characters progressed in the age the story started to pick up steam. Sarah Grimke is the ugly-duckling of the Grimke family, slaveholders in the […]
I’m Reading…To Paris with Love
To Paris with Love written by Carl Weber is the third book in the Duncan Family Business novels. I have to admit Carl Weber is my guilty pleasure. He writes urban African American fiction that usually focuses on money, sex, and family relations. I enjoy Carl Weber, he can write from the female and male […]
I’m Reading…Where’d You Go Bernadette
Where You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple is an adventurous book, taking the reader on a topsy-turvy journey about Bernadette Fox. The main character Bernadette Fox is a complicated character to say the least. She was a promising architect well on her way to world recognition. However, something horrible happens, a prize building she was […]
I’m Reading…Black Like Me
The most amazing, awe-inspiring book I have ever read. A white man literally takes “walking a mile someone’s shoes” seriously. John Griffin transforms into a Black man in 1959. In 1959, at the height of segregation and Jim Crow. He tours the South, the Deep South and experience blind hatred for the pigmentation of skin […]
