Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke is set in Lark, a small town in East Texas, where black people steer clear of a bar crawling with the Aryan Brotherhood and take solace at Geneva’s, a small…
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward is a haunting tale of the Jim Crow south and its reverberations, generations deep. In rural Mississippi, thirteen-year-old Jojo lives with his aging grandparents who he refers to as…
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew completely fooled me. The story begins with elderly Charlie Chan Hock Chye being interviewed by his biographer about the state of comics today. Let’s just…
Paper Girls Vol. 2
Previously I wrote about my love for Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan, a fabulous comic set in the late 80s following four paper delivery girls, Erin, Mac, Tiffany, and KJ. Volume two picks up…
Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2)
I loved Illuminae, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff’s young adult sci-fi novel about a group of people escaping an attack on their planet and trying to make their way to a safe spot, the Jump…
The Masked City
At the end of The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman, a book I really enjoyed, we uncover a secret about librarian Irene’s assistant Kai. His secret plays a big part in book two of the…
Irena’s Children
Have you heard the name Irena Sendler? The Irena Sendler who is called the “female Oskar Schindler” because she helped rescue more than 2,500 Jewish children in Warsaw in WWII? If you haven’t heard of…
March Books One, Two & Three
March Books One, Two, and Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and illustrator Nate Powell will go down in history as some of the best graphic non-fiction ever created. Telling the story of Congressman John…
Dark Matter
I’d never heard of Blake Crouch until I stumbled upon the TV show “Wayward Pines.” I don’t remember exactly what episode I stopped watching the show, but it was the one where they revealed the…
Underground Airlines
In Underground Airlines by Ben Winters, slavery still exists in the United States. This alternate history imagines a world where four southern states, called the “Hard Four,” still enslave black people because instead of losing…