2TreadsJun 9, 20201 min"You Never Miss The Water 'Til The Well Runs Dry"-A Riveting Caribbean Familial Tale. #ReadCaribbeanThere is nothing more rewarding, soothing, or engrossing as being able to sink within a story that so aptly and vividly captures the hist...
2TreadsJun 8, 20202 min#BLACKLIVESMATTER-Thoughts On Why It Was Created and Why It Must Continue.This post is not meant to defend the Black Lives Matter movement, as I believe it needs no defense. This is a post to call attention to w...
2TreadsJun 7, 20201 minTheory, Literature and Philosophy in Relationships. #ReadCaribbean Review.Dionne Brand brings dissertaional excavation to the novelistic landscape. -This is the way power works—it wants both power and forgivenes...
2TreadsJun 7, 20202 minErotic Folktales from the Caribbean. #ReadCaribbean Review.In My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales by Robert Antoni, the island of Corpus Christi comes to life for young Johnny as his grandma recount...
2TreadsJun 5, 20202 minJUNE IS CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH, SO CELEBRATE BY READING CARIBBEAN-AUTHORED BOOKS.In the month of June, which is recognized as Caribbean Heritage Month, Cindy from @bookofcinz on Instagram, has created a great initiativ...
2TreadsApr 28, 20202 minSyrian Brides: A Great Collection of the Shared Realities of being WomanHOOKED FROM THE VERY FIRST STORY!!! With each story read, the ingenuity, strength, beauty, struggles, and mistreatment that women endure ...
2TreadsApr 4, 20201 minMARCH IS FOR MAWENZI. OUR MONTH OF READING TITLES FROM OUR BELOVED SMALL PUBLISHING HOUSE.Mawenzi House is a small indie publisher in Toronto, dedicated to bringing diverse and marginalized voices in literature to the world. We...
2TreadsMar 28, 20202 minThe Skin We're In by Desmond Cole. A Critical look at the Polite, Nice country of North America.Every word, sentence and paragraph resonated with me as I read this book. I may not have, as of yet, experienced overt racism in Canada. ...
2TreadsMar 24, 20202 min#BLACKATHON2020: THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM. LAVALLE TAKES ON LOVECRAFT.LaValle gives us rich storytelling, intrigue, shady characters, and an engrossing mystery simmering with racial tension and undertones, f...
2TreadsFeb 11, 20202 minNot So Pure and Simple. In More Ways than One.In this young adult contemporary, Giles tackles societal standards and toxic masculinity. He does this in a fun, accessible yet informati...
2TreadsJan 29, 20202 minSimi Visits Grandma: Tales From Jalingo; Cue the Nostalgia.Going into Simi Visits Grandma, we were not sure what to expect. Being Jamaicans, we are from a culture that still retained stories influ...
2TreadsJan 11, 20201 min FAVOURITE READS OF 2019Happy New Year! 2019 just flew by, and it was a year of new and exciting experiences for us, one being starting this blog to share our th...
2TreadsJan 11, 20202 minIndigenous Lit. A New Debut That Solidifies Why Own Voices Is So Important.Crow Winter by Karen McBride is a great read. And the fidelity that flows from page to page re indigenous life and practices, is exactly w...
2TreadsNov 27, 20192 minHow Grief Transmutes Through Colours-The Astonishing Color of After.When I started reading Emily X. R. Pan's 'The Astonishing Color of After', immediately I knew that I would love it. It was the way in whi...
2TreadsNov 4, 20191 min#BookerPrizeWinner2019Winner of the Booker prize for 2019, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is told from the perspective of several women and a non-b...
2TreadsOct 31, 20191 minA TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR(JAMAICA).'No, but not everybody is mixed up in such a way that the pieces don't come together in any way that makes sense or form'-Moshe. A Tall H...
2TreadsOct 24, 20192 minWar Girls: A Story of More than Just War.This story carries a personal touch from Tochi Onyebuchi, whose mother experienced the Biafran War. A war that pitted the people of Niger...
2TreadsOct 14, 20191 minNo Angels Here. Short Review on Carlos Ruiz Zafon's 'The Angel's Game'.Ruiz Zafon is a true story weaver, the pages his loom of craft. In The Angel's Game, we meet David Martin, a struggling novelist-to-be, a...
2TreadsOct 2, 20191 minMy Totem Came Calling: A Search for Meaning.A coming of age tale that incorporates a search for meaning, one's heritage, friendship and family. Chanda is a privileged teen living in...
2TreadsSep 20, 20192 minSix Goodbyes We Never SaidThis is a story of grief, mental health struggles and being different in a world that sometimes constantly reminds us that those differen...
