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I rarely come across good, if not great adaptations. The kind that makes you want to read the original work it was adapted from. usually my experience is that I love the book and hate or am dissatisfied with the movie or TV series or vice versa. The trick, as storytellers, is how to make […]
Elizabeth Gilbert has a new book release, All the Way to the River. She is like the Oprah of books, i.e., women (of a certain age) love her and will buy anything she writes. This is not my foray into Elizabeth Gilbert’s written works; I have read City of Girls, which is a historical fiction […]
Taylor Jenkins Reid has experienced a surge in popularity in the past five years, with the help of social media platforms like YouTube and TikTok. Her most popular books Daisy Jones and The Six (was adapted into a limited series on Amazon Prime) and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (in production) are still heavily […]
S. A. Cosby is an author I discovered a couple of years ago from a conversation taking place on Twitter (before the name change). Then I read Razorblade Tears, which I enjoyed. He released his current mystery thriller, All Sinners Bleed in 2023, which has similar themes of racism, corruption, and small town society. In […]
This is a solid debut in the thriller genre, which could use some new and cultured voices.We follow Ellice Littlejohn, who is a mature-aged, token, Black lawyer at her company: she was hired to combat racial discrimination and lawsuits. While she is managing her “little secrets” she discovers her boss lying dead in his office […]
Thank you to NetGalley and Alcove Press for providing an eARC. This is Anisha Bhatia’s debut novel. She is an Indian woman living in American. Her first novel has traditional Indian beliefs about women living in a patriarchal society. But it is not your typical hopeless or predictable story about a young woman whose only […]
Janet Jackson is one of the few names in pop culture who has been a successful triple threat throughout her entire career. In 1990, she headlined her first world tour. With the release of her fourth studio album, Rhythm Nation 1814, Miss Jackson performed songs from that album as well as her third album Control. […]
Verzuz Battle has become the alternative to live concert entertainment. With COVID changing the way we live our day to day lives—temporarily or permanently—we as fans have found creative ways to enjoy music during quarantine. Verzuz Battle was started by super producers, Swizz Beatz and Timberland. The live event is hosted on their Instagram channels […]
I was recently introduced to the Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty. I finished the first book, The City of Brass last week. It is a thick book; not what I call a quick or light read. This debut novel by Chakraborty’s was first published in 2017. Harper Voyager published all three books with the final […]
Tameka Fleming 