Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas | Book Review

The following is from Goodreads: If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works

January Wrap Up | 2021

I’ll probably sound like a broken record every time that I post a wrap up, but I seriously can’t believe how fast January flew by. But at the same time, I feel like the month dragged, if that makes any sense whatsoever. Either way, I think this month was a pretty good reading month for

Author Appreciation | Angie Thomas

It’s been a while since I’ve done an Author Appreciation where I dedicate a post to gushing about a certain author who makes me happy. Not only that, but so far the some of the ones that I’ve featured deal with some tough topics in their books (Becky Albertalli and Elizabeth Acevedo). And also considering

Goodreads Monday | 1.11.21

It’s been a while since I did one of these posts, but I figured it’d be fun to do. Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme that was started by Lauren’s Page Turners. The meme is pretty easy to follow; to participate simply choose a random book from your TBR and explain why you want to

Diverse Books I’ve Read or Want to Read | Book Discussion

In light of everything that’s going one in the world, I want to sit and think about all of (or a majority of) the diverse books I’ve read and the ones I really want to get to. Because being that I’m not a person of color, I feel like I should educate myself as best

Book Review: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

On the Come Up is about a sixteen-year-old named Bri who wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least to make it out of her neighborhood one day. She has to live up to her dad’s name, the name of an underground rap legend who died before he had