Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis It’s become harder for me to enjoy urban fantasy since I started writing it, so I was delighted by this well-crafted YA book about a girl who can speak to the dead. The way her magic works–she writes a letter and the spirit appears–felt fresh and creative. Trell has …
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Jan 05
Book Review: The Color of Water
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride A novel, or memoir, at its best, will give you a window in to the life of someone you might never meet in real life. This memoir, if you can call it a memoir when half of it is about …
Jan 13
Book Review: Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates If the point of a book is to experience the world from another’s viewpoint, just for a little while, this book succeeds. It’s short, around 150 pages in the hardback, and it takes the frame of a father’s letter to his son. It’s dark enough that I …