Happy October Sistah Girls! Fall, or autumn if you’re fancy, is my favorite season of the year. I like the medium-cold weather, wearing cozy clothes, and getting into atmospheric reads. Check out my October TBR (to be read) featuring fantasy romances. These picks...
Filter House by Nisi Shawl October is Black Speculative Fiction Month. The speculative fiction genre covers anything that explores a setting that is not “the real world.” Spec fic is not only science fiction and fantasy, but horror and any writing that imagines a...
Sistah Girls is it easy for you to predict your favorite books? Sometimes a new favorite book takes me by surprise. I’ll pick it up expecting to enjoy myself and have fun reading, only to end up obsessed and abandoning the rest of my reading list to read it all over...
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney At the start of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, Quinn (the protagonist) is afraid of so many things in her life. She keeps her emotions under a tight leash, writing lists of her dreams and fears in her journal rather than facing...
Sistah Girls it’s May, and I can hear the graduation march in the air. Ending high school and starting that transition into adulthood is a turbulent period and makes a great setting for a coming-of-age novel. It’s been a few years since my own high school graduation...
For women of color to continue the conversations that we have in the nail salon, beauty parlor, church, and during our lunch breaks at work. This is a place where you can kick off your shoes and get comfortable.