The Broken Earth: A story for the oppressed
N.K. Jemisin’s fantasy novel, The Fifth Season, which is the first installment in her trilogy, The Broken Earth, was published in 2015. It’s the first fantasy I’d read for adults and I was a little intimidated to start it thinking it would be difficult to understand and follow. I’d heard so much about this series though, which won a Hugo Award for each volume, the first Black writer to do so, that I had to get it.
When I Was Puerto Rican: A New Identity
In a previous blog post, “Kill Jane Austen,” I wrote about wanting to read more Latino authors and through my research had found a memoir by Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican, published in 1993, which immediately intrigued me because my mom is Puerto Rican, born and raised, so I hoped to learn more about what it was like to grow up on the island.
Kill Jane Austen
Nobody can deny that Austen is an amazing writer whose stories should be read by everyone, especially aspiring writers, and her name and works should never be erased from the literary canon. But that’s the thing: She will never be forgotten, so must Hollywood continue to adapt her books?
Rabbit out the Trap
I first saw stand-up comedian Ms. Pat in 2017 on one of my favorite podcasts, Your Mom’s House, hosted by comedians and married couple, Tom Segura and Christina P., where they discussed her memoir, Rabbit, a book she completed with writer Jeannine Amber, who did a fantastic job transcribing her life.
A Spark of Light: Pro-the-Life-of-the-Woman
A Spark of Light, a novel written by the prolific and brilliant writer Jodi Picoult, is a great story that I really enjoyed reading, and where I happened to learn the most truths about abortion clinics. In an interview on C-Span conducted in December in 2018 (it can be found on Picoult’s website) Picoult said that she loves the concept of the novel as a medium to educate people on social justice.
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