5 Books to Read When You Can’t Take a Vacay–But You Need One
Summer may have moved on but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to dream of traveling to other places. Let’s face it: who doesn’t love going on vacation? It’s one of my favorite things—just ask my long-suffering husband who often complains that I spend far too much...
Book Review: In Black & White by Nia Forrester [Spoiler Free Review]
Nia Forrester has done it again: written a novel that had me so hooked I lost track of time and stayed up way too late reading and not wanting the story to end. Set in a leafy suburb of Philadelphia, In Black & White immediately drops us into what is every...
12 BOOK BAES IN BLACK ROMANCE YOU HAVE TO MEET [PART 2]
Old School Book Baes + New School Book Baes Sistah Girls, part two of my Book Bae list is here! If you missed part one you can read it here. This time I thought I'd mix it up, this list includes some new book baes with some old-school book baes. Trask Maxwell has the...
Writing Is My Therapy: A Conversation With Nako
"Writing Is My Therapy." -Nako Nako is a Black contemporary urban author who has published over thirty books independently. Nako didn't stop at self-publishing in the same genre, she's also branched out to author a devotional book for young girls. Girl + God + Grace:...
11 Novels by Toni Morrison That Will Change Your Life
A Tribute to a Treasure: Toni Morrison [Part1] Toni Morison passed away on August 5, 2019. Morrison was an author, Princeton University professor, and Pulitzer Prize winner for her book Beloved. Even though she is no longer here with us her work lives on. For Sistah...
Chasing Cashmere (Clover Chronicles book 2) by Mya Kay [Spoiler Free]
5 STAR REVIEW for Chasing Cashmere book 2 in The Clover Chronicles by Mya Kay Cashmere VS. Cashmere I was willing to confront her at all cost. Cost of entry: EVERYTHING -Cashmere Clover In Chasing Cashmere readers get a chance to know the Clover who lives by the beat...
Short Story: The Get Over by Ruthie Lenor [READER’S VOTE]
The Get Over by Ruthie Lenor “Whiskey, neat.” “I'll have the same.” Jackson looked at the woman who had just sat next to him. Her heels showing off cute red toenails, skin the color of his morning coffee and a bit of thigh peeking out from under the overlay of her...
Book Review: Battling Brelyn (The Clover Chronicles Book 1) by Mya Kay
"Being a Clover was about more than having the name. It's about the legacy." -Brelyn In Battling Brelyn readers are introduced to Brelyn the youngest of the Clovers, a prominent, wealthy family in Philadelphia. Brelyn is a teen entrepreneur, she has her very own...
13 Classic Urban Novels You Have To Read
13 Classic Urban Novels You Have To Read Urban novels have a special place in my heart. I've been reading them since I was a teen, today there are so many authors within the genre who are penning unique stories filled plot twists and turns that will have you losing...
SHORT STORY: He Touched Me by Sylvia Hubbard [READER’S VOTE]
He Touched Me by Sylvia Hubbard I was having a bad day. Two weeks from the worst break up of my life, some strange man put his hands up my dress and…Touched me. I should have moved. I should have been offended, but it felt… good. Rodney and I hadn’t been sexual in six...