Tag: Brit Bennett
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April Showers Bring May Roundups
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, Arsenic and Adobo, books, Brandon Taylor, Brit Bennett, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Charles Yu, Daughter of Fortune, Edward Carey, Elisabeth's Lists, fiction, Get a Life Chloe Brown, Hafsah Faizal, Howards End, Interior Chinatown, Isabel Allende, Isabel Ibanez, Isabel Wilkerson, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Lucy Worsley, Mia P. Manansala, Reading, Real Life, Salman Rushdie, Talia Hibbert, The Girl with the Louding Voice, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Mitchells vs the Machines, The Mothers, We Free the Stars, WolfwalkersEventful Events and Happening Happenings We got our first Covid shots! And our second Covid shots! Two steps closer to quasi-normal life! I’m very excited about it (if you couldn’t tell). It took almost two weeks to get an appointment and we’d been checking every day and then all of a sudden appointments! It was…
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My Top 10 Reads of 2020
Akwaeke Emezi, Alix E. Harrow, Angela Carter, books, Brit Bennett, Casey McQuiston, favorite books 2020, Geraldine Brooks, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Novik, People of the Book, Reading, Red White and Roya Blue, Spinning Silver, Stone Mattress, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Magic Toyshop, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Vanishing Half, V.E. SchwabThis year I read 150 books, and though it was a bit of a mixed bag with plenty of books I didn’t finish and lots of reading for classes, there were still a number of great books. In fact there were well over 30 books this year that I unreservedly loved, and narrowing it down…
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