A heartbreaking look into the formative years of Maya Angelou, one of America’s greatest poets and humans.
Category: Books
I have honest and completely biased – cause I’m human – reviews on all the books I’ve been reading since December of 2016.
The Roxy Letters by Mary Pauline Lowry
The Roxy Letters is filled with magical little moments pushing against the linguist patriarchy in an endearingly hippy-dippy way. It's a fun book to distract from the raging pandemic going on in the world.
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
Dreyer's English is the closest thing to porn for word nerds.
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama is funny, complex, intelligent, thoughtful, realistic, loyal, hopefully, and more. It’s so easy to water down a person to the image presented by the media; more often than not, she was left to be the woman standing behind the man in the white house. Up until Becoming, I knew very little about her life outside of the basics.
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer delves into magical realism and familiar themes of justice, humanity, freedom, and equality. Ta-Nehisi Coates sets his debut novel in pre-Civil War Virginia. Though the prose is excellent and interesting, I found the story largely forgettable.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The book is pretty much summed up in the quote, “We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to be not racist. Now let’s know how to be antiracist.”