I remember when my first roommate in college (before I transferred) displayed milk and honey on her desk as decoration. Although she and I were incompatible, it still pops up in my mind from time to time 3 ½ years later. And knowing that Rupi Kaur has a lot of clout, I decided to look …
I gotta start off by saying this: take a moment to admire the book cover above. How nice does it look? I’m someone who gets wooed by well-designed book covers, and when books are high quality, it enhances their covers’ beauty even more. Especially when it sets the tone for the plot. Firekeeper’s Daughter is …
“The people who are exclusionary want to preserve what they have. They think others will take it all away from them.” -Misfit in Love, pg. 205 A great quote from Misfit in Love to serve as the epigraph for this article. First off, if you haven’t read my review for Saints and Misfits, you need …
Until I saw Saints and Misfits in the “teen” section at my local library, it was not a book I had heard of. Although, seeing a Muslim girl on the front cover got me very interested in reading the summary. And then after taking a slightly longer glance at the summary, I had no choice …
“I know what they’ll say. ‘That girl and her temper.’ For I’m a little girl when they want to belittle me, a woman when they want me to bear a child.” I want to start my review of Blood Water Paint with that quote from page 110, because it is so powerful and shows why …
You Bring the Distant Near is a book I’ve wanted to read for around 4 years. I remember seeing its shiny cover at my local library. Nowadays, book covers are so fancy that you want to read books without even looking at the summary. Though that doesn’t mean the summary is less compelling than the …
So, you may recognize Amanda Gorman from the poem she gave at Joe Biden’s inauguration. It was called “The Hill We Climb,” and if you haven’t heard it, go listen to it and then come back to this article. It’s been a while since I watched her recitation. Though given her rising star power and …
I remember the emotions I felt while reading the summary for Clap When You Land. I thought about shedding tears, and had I not been in the university library, I would’ve cried for real. It took a little while for me to arrive at reading the book, but when I did, I knew I was …
I was browsing Goodreads to find interesting books to read in the future when I first heard of With the Fire on High. Its summary was so interesting that I was excited to read it, which was further amplified by the attractive book cover. Seeing that my university’s library had the book, you know I had …
This may be so embarrassing to admit, but I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is the first book I have read for fun in approximately two years. And because this is my first book review since I’ve started this blog a year and a half ago, that’s how you know I haven’t read for fun …