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Review: The Last Cuentista

Review: The Last Cuentista

Posted January 29, 2022 by Richetta in #ownvoices, Book Reviews, Middle Grades

Storytelling, Mexican Folklore and Futurism I don’t really know how to start this review other than to state that The Last Cuentista is absolutely awesome and beautiful. If you read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and other short stories in school, then you will immediately recognize that this middle grade book is a […]

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Current Read: Black Girl, Call Home

Current Read: Black Girl, Call Home

Posted April 26, 2021 by Richetta in Currently Reading

Today I started reading Jasmine Mans’ poetry book Black Girl, Call Home in celebration of National Poetry Month. I sought her book out at the bookstore after seeing it mentioned repeatedly around the #bookstagram universe. But what got me to purchase it was landing on the poem, “Secrets” when I began to flip through it.  […]

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