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And Just Like That

Have you been watching And Just Like That on HBO? I have to admit that I was a little (very) hesitant about the idea of this show. It is...

Just As I Am

Close your eyes. Keep them closed. Think back to your childhood when your grandmother or great-grandmother would gather everyone around...

2020 Goodreads Reading Challenge

We did it (in my Kamala Harris voice)! I completed yet another reading challenge. My 2020 reading challenge was to read 25 books in one...

Audible’s Best Listens

Christmas is fast approaching and the schools are already closed for the holidays. If you’re lucky, your job has closed up shop until...

The New Yorker Best Books 2020

What have you been reading lately? I don’t know about you, but I have definitely surpassed my Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2020. I...

Little Fires Everywhere

It is a New York Times fiction best-seller, it was adapted into a mini-series on Hulu that is now Emmy-nominated, and most importantly,...

Spring Book Recommendations

Last December, I provided you with some book recommendations from each genre to get your inner book worm moving. Since we will all be in...

Feed Your Inner Bookworm

If one of your New Year’s Resolutions was to read more, let me help you out! One of my fave sites – goodreads.com has recommended some...

2019 Goodreads Reading Challenge

Another year, another reading challenge. Last year I pledged to read 20 books in 2019, and I can proudly say that I surpassed my goal by...

Set It Off is Back On

Here we go again. There is a rumor going around that Issa Rae is interested in a Set It Off remake. Are you here for it? I’m personally...

One Taught Me…

It’s been a long time since Khadijah James, Regine Hunter, Maxine Shaw, and Synclaire James strutted into our living rooms on a weekly...

Goodreads – The Biggest Books of Fall

Goodreads has released its Biggest Books of Fall list and it includes fiction and non-fiction books, mystery and thriller books, young...

Toni Morrison 1931 – 2019

“If I hadn’t killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her.” – Beloved, 1987 I first fell in...

Vans x HARRY POTTER

As soon as Hagrid uttered the words, “You’re a wizard Harry,” I have been hooked on J. K. Rowling’s groundbreaking masterpiece known as...

CLAWS

Are you ready? Season 3 of TNT’s Claws premieres on Sunday, June 9th at 9/8c. The drama centers on an all female-run nail shop in South...

An Anonymous Girl

I’m already ten books deep into my Goodreads 2019 Reading Challenge, and my latest book really captivated me. It was a psychological...

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

As part of the 2019 GoodReads Reading Challenge, Where’d You Go, Bernadette was the third book that I completed. The book is by Maria...

2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge Complete!

At this same time last year, I pledged to read 15 books in 2018 as part of the Goodreads Reading Challenge. As of December 31, 2018, I...

Growth

Can we talk about growth? Let’s rewind seven years. It’s 2011, and it’s the first season of the first franchise of Vh1’s now-infamous...

Will Boomerang Ricochet?

There is word on the street that the 90’s classic movie Boomerang is being remade. I love and hate this idea for a couple of obvious...

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