Have you ever heard of fire cider? I heard of it a few years ago when I was watching Youtube video on it by Jessica Sowards of Roots & Refuge Farm. Fire cider is a kitchen remedy that will help you and your family stay healthy during the cold & flu season. I was intrigued […]
Today is my stop on the TBR and Beyond Book Tour for Maybe an Artist by Liz Montague. Check out my review below and follow along with the other stops on the tour this week! Who am I? and Why do I do what I do? Those are two questions that Maybe an Artist by […]
This year’s spooky book releases lend themselves to some automatic horror flick pairings. Now, don’t get too excited because my scary movie repertoire is extremely small. But here are a few Spooky Book and Scary Movie Pairings to inspire you. The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson and Stephen King’s Carrie. The obvious choice. […]
If you follow my blog, then you know I am quick to read a book featuring #BlackGirlMagic or Diverse Magic worlds. I’ve noticed a little trend that I’m loving in middle grades where Black girls and girls of color are taking center stage in a space that previously excluded them. A generation of writers that […]
October is a fun month to read whether you are into spooky reads, cozy mysteries or just sticking to your regular favorites. For those of you who live in an area where the weather gets a little chillier or sometimes downright cold. October is the beginning of cozy reading season, the best season in my […]
This reading wrap-up is dedicated to all of the moms who are trying to get some reading in during the first month of school, especially if you are also an educator. It can be a tough season for reading. This month my finished book list was short because there was a ton going on, per […]
Slip by Marika McCoola is a graphic novel about a teenage artist named Jade and her grief over her best friend’s attempted suicide. Most of the novel focuses on Jade’s struggle with her feelings over what her friend Phoebe did and that the two are separated because Phoebe is a treatment program. She works out […]
This week I’ve been listening and reading a variety of literature that includes both Politics and Prose. I have a fiction and nonfiction book going via audiobook and I’m contemplating which physical book I’m going to read next. That can be a challenge because I usually like to have both the ebook and audiobook in […]
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander is the kind of historical novel that those of us who are adults now deserved when we were in school. This book embraces and emphasizes the narrative that the history of Black people in the diaspora did not begin in the countries where they were enslaved. Our […]
The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi is the book I needed in my arsenal right after I had kiddo #1. Now as a mom with 3 young kiddos, I found this book absolutely helpful in so many ways that I went out and bought it Halfway into reading the arc. It isn’t written specifically […]