2T Reads

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....

LaValle gives us rich storytelling, intrigue, shady characters, and an engrossing mystery simmering with racial tension and undertones,...

In this young adult contemporary, Giles tackles societal standards and toxic masculinity. He does this in a fun, accessible yet...

Going into Simi Visits Grandma, we were not sure what to expect. Being Jamaicans, we are from a culture that still retained stories...

Happy 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...

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...

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...

Winner of the Booker prize for 2019, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is told from the perspective of several women and a...

'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...

This story carries a personal touch from Tochi Onyebuchi, whose mother experienced the Biafran War. A war that pitted the people of...

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 coming of age tale that incorporates a search for meaning, one's heritage, friendship and family. Chanda is a privileged teen living in...

This is a story of grief, mental health struggles and being different in a world that sometimes constantly reminds us that those...

This story brims with black girl magic. Junauda Petrus takes us on a journey from Trinidad to Minneapolis, charting a tale that mixes...

In Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind, he takes his readers on a labyrinthine adventure, one that starts with the find of a mysterious novel...

Louise Bennett-Coverley, who was born on September 7, 1919 and died on July 26, 2007, was affectionately called Miss Lou. She was a poet,...

A Small Gathering of Bones by Patricia Powell, centres around a small group of gay men living in Kingston, Jamaica in the late 1970s. The...

Brown Girl in the Ring is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel and introduces her imagination for the fantastical; blending seamlessly, African...

"One Saturday morning, not very long ago, I dropped dead and turned into a duppy". In The Duppy, Anthony C. Winkler gives us an...

Going into this anthology by Shelley Sykes-Coley, we had no idea that we would latch on to every poem and ride it as an experience that...