My rating: Chrisy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo is everywhere! And with the release of her latest book Songbirds, I thought it was time to finally see what all the reviews were about. The novel predominantly follows Nuri and Afra, husband and wife, as they travel to England in an attempt to seek asylum. They were livingContinue reading “Book Review: Christy Lefteri // The Beekeeper of Aleppo”
Category Archives: Racism
Book Review: Kiley Reid // Such A Fun Age
Such A Fun Age isn’t such a fun book.
Book Review: Delia Owens // Where the Crawdads Sing
My rating: I get scared to read bestselling and highly recommended books because my expectations are so high. But I went into Where the Crawdads Sing knowing nothing other than it made people cry. Owens didn’t make me cry, but this book is for sure one of my favourites of the year so far! The book followsContinue reading “Book Review: Delia Owens // Where the Crawdads Sing”
Book Review: Jessie Burton // The Minaturist
If someone made a little figure of you and then threw it out of the window, would you feel its pain?
Book Review: Alice Oseman // I Was Born for This
Alice Oseman restores dignity to fangirls which white men in the music industry has stripped them of for years in I Was Born for This
Book Review: James Baldwin // Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin breaks out of the room of Black writer only writing Black characters and shows readers how easier it is to do.
Book Review: Brit Bennett // The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half deals with many contemporary issues with sophistication.
Book Review: Bernadine Evaristo // Girl, Woman, Other
How Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other provided me with friends and a determination to ensure nothing stopped me from fulfilling my potential.
Book Review: Kathryn Stockett // The Help
How Stockett’s The Help made me equally hate and love my mother.
Book Review: J. M. Coetzee // Disgrace
How Coetzee’s novel Disgrace taught me that I was born a disgrace.
