Today is my stop on the Delicious Monsters Book Tour hosted by Hear Our Voices! Check out my review below! Review Delicious Monsters is a well-crafted paranormal thriller that will hold you down in your seat until you finish the last page. With dual timelines and point of views, I found myself equally intrigued by […]
Today is my stop on the A Mighty Long Way book tour hosted by TBR and Beyond Tours. Check out my review below. Review: What I’ve learned in the past few years as I read more memoirs written by Black authors, is that there is a lot of history packed into people’s individual stories. You […]
This is why you should probably give yourself a few weeks into the year before making any New Year’s resolutions. Because if I had, hypothetically speaking, made a resolution about reading more from my bookshelf and backlist I would already be behind the game. Backlist Challenge All of the books I have lined up from […]
December was a busy month, per usual. So I didn’t put a lot of expectations on myself for reading. I was moving around running errands and cleaning and cooking and still doing regular things. As a mom this time of year can be hard for me to focus on my own self-care because I am […]
Happy Book Birthday to You So Black by Theresa the S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D., illustrated by London Ladd!!!! It is my honor to host a book tour stop today for You So Black for Hear Our Voices Book Tours! Review: If you are looking for a book to kick off Black History Month, this is it baby! This […]
I wasn’t playing when I said that it was a “Read What I Want” December Reading List! Because even though Saints of the Household by Ari Tison isn’t out until March 28, 2023, it has been on my mind to read it sooner rather than closer to its debut. I’m so glad that I did […]
Join me for another “Do What I Want” December Reading Goals list!!!! December is a super busy month for me as a working mom. So I’m going to continue my tradition of not putting too many expectations on my reading goals this month. Last year it worked out pretty well and I had a chance […]
The irony of November this year was that I was deeply entrenched in all things books and simultaneously too busy to do a lot of reading. So this post is dedicated to all of the Moms Who Read and I hope we are all blessed with quiet time during this holiday & winter season to […]
The National Book Awards are November 16 and one of the books that I’m rooting for is Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile. If you are a fan of John Lewis’ March graphic novel series, then you want to run, not walk to check out Victory. […]
Affiliate Link: https://bookshop.org/shop/cocoawithbooks November Book Drive The Bookshop.org team is partnering with Penguin Random House for the launch of Michelle Obama’s latest book, The Light We Carry On: Overcoming in Uncertain Times. To help give back to our communities, Bookshop.org will donate 10% of all sales of Michelle’s latest book to We Need Diverse Books (WNBD) – a nonprofit organization that promotes […]