2T Reads

'Seeing didn't transform into doing.' -Vern 🧬⚗🧪 Solomon is very good at writing stories that parallel and question our existence in a...

'The world moves swift in its boasted modernity, forgetting those it leaves behind, or grinds beneath the gearwheels of progress.' - The...

Son Of The Storm is heady with political and tribal nuance, inflected with the richness of place and cultural practices and a hierarchy...

"We just going round and round, we creatures of passage. And we gonna keep going round til we understand the Loop." -Grandmother 🌌🌌🌌...

-Paradise lies at the feet of your mothers- Prophet Mohammed This collection is both funny, engaging, and sobering. Upping the ante from...

-Water does not battle, nor fight among itself. Water moves collectively to achieve its aims- The Book of the Ark 🌌 Newland uses...

🌊Reflections 🌊 Let me start by saying that there are things to love and enjoy about this book. The fact that Callender was able to...

Being a science-inclined individual, I tend to be drawn to books that feature as the main character, someone who is also driven by a...

This is one of those historical accounts that needs to be read. African Europeans have been creating and sharing knowledge for centuries....

Smart uses the lush landscape that roils with spiritualism and culture to craft her fantastical clash between covens that hold to...

With dialogue that is sharp, fluid, vibrant, and vibrates with the spirit of a culture and people that we are intimately linked to and...

The Life and Deaths of Frankie D. by Colleen Nelson transports us to the world of Frankie, a teen just trying to live without letting her...

-the best tales leave some riddles unanswered and some mysteries hidden- 🦚 Lord's prose is alive with the voice of our Caribbean...

In a word, this story is gripping. From the cautionary tale of the tunnels, I was invested in how this would unfold and was not...

Hopkinson's stories are always informed by her experiences of a certain time, place, people, and she uses her vivid imagination to craft...

-All I wanted was a home. For the ground to stop shifting beneath my feet. For something, anything, to stay the same long enough for me...

🌊Reflections🌊 I have so many thoughts on Sigourney Rose. Callender definitely gave us a new take on a familiar narrative; yes her main...

This is a story that is multi-generational, multi-charactered, and multi-relational with prose that weaves an interconnecting magic that...

-No. Zeus who is old as stars thinks Earth spins for him, that he is entitled to our bodies. He will never learn. Vengeance is ours-...

In a year that was defined by a global pandemic, reading offered many of us an escape and we were no different. We read close to 200...