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Cinematic Black Historical Fiction in Ashton Lattimore’s All We Were Promised
As soon as I found out that All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore is a Black historical fiction novel, I went straight to my library account and requested a copy. Thankfully, it only took a week or so to arrive, and I am only too eager to get stuck into it and get immersed…
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Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore – A Debut Short Story Collection to Devour
February is Black History Month in North America, so I want to take this time to read and share books by Black authors, spreading their stories and showcasing the brilliance of Black writers. All perspectives and voices are important, and Black voices deserve to be heard. Make Your Way Home came across my radar a…
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A Beautiful Short Story Collection in Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Short story collections are something I find myself gravitating towards at this stage in my life, and I am so happy that I can find such great recommendations and works to pick up from a range of authors. Interpreter of Maladies is a book that came across my radar some months ago (I am not…
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The Psychological Horror of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
As the bridge between scholarly classic reading and Spooktober’s chilling thrills, I thought Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House would be an excellent final post for September’s Scholarly Reading Month. Not only is Shirley Jackson an absolute beast of a horror writer in the best possible way, but The Haunting of Hill House serves…
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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is an LGBT Classic
This classic is powerful, mesmerising, and heartbreaking in so many ways. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is one of those short novels that fills the whole space, with life in every word and emotion seeping off the page. It is lyrical and intense and complex and impossible to ignore. It is rough, focusing on many…
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Let’s Talk About Ray Bradbury’s Dystopian Classic Fahrenheit 451
Did you really think I wouldn’t pick up the classic book about books and media literacy? How could I pass up Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 when the opportunity to read scholarly classic academic literature arose? It it true I hadn’t read Fahrenheit 451 before now, and I have more than a few things to say…
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The Succinct, Tragic Tale of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
As far as classics go, I am well behind in the literature. It honestly is a genre I struggle with, as has been established in various posts like The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four, and not-so-obviously my Frankenstein where I talked about Mary Shelley…
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Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Is Literary Gold
It pains me to say I hadn’t read any of Toni Morrison’s work before this point. Now, I feel irrevocably changed thanks to The Bluest Eye, the first novel of hers but by no means a little one. The Bluest Eye is raw, blunt, and makes known from the first page that no ordinary upbringing…
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