Monday, March 20, 2017

Red Rising (Red Rising #1) by Pierce Brown

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My friend Danielle insisted I read this. I am glad she did. When I started it I was only 40ish pages in and I was gutted and angry and I c...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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In the story of Cora the Underground Railroad is really and underground railroad. Station masters and conductors and locomotives carry runaw...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark #1) by Veronica Roth

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Veronica Roth has come back to familiar territory. As in the Divergent series ( Book 1 , Book 2 , Book 3 ) Roth creates a new world where pe...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin

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This book took me three full days and a few hours to read. I started it late on a Sunday night and ugly cried through the introduction befor...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird

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This book was used as the basis for the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria and watching season 1 made me want to read the source material. Qu...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

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The Oscar nominated film (which as of this writing I haven't seen yet) is based on this book. It is the story of how a group of women,...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White by April Ryan

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I enjoy April Ryan's work as a reporter and when I heard this book was coming out I new I would want to read it. For the sake of full d...