The banning of books in schools has seen a steady rise, but 2021 has been an exceptional year. Most of the targeted books are about Black and L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to the American Library Association. The country’s polarized politics has been blamed for fueling this new rise. Every year, the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top […]
The Caribbean diaspora is a sizeable, well-educated, and affluent demographic whose socio-economic interests are many and varied. Additionally, they represent a large segment of the book readers’ market that publishers cannot afford to ignore! Below are the titles of 10 favorite books that one would find within the household of members of the diaspora: 1. To Kill A Mockingbird This […]
The novel titled, “Honey Girl” by Morgan Rogers is captivating and intriguing. A check out of this book at the cash register would be worth the return on investment. With her newly completed Ph. D. in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes […]
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev follows music journalist, magazine editor, and lifelong fan S. Sunny Shelton covering the unexpected reunion of the controversial 70s Afro-punk duo Opal Jewel and Nev Charles, most remembered for an iconic photo of the two outside of their infamous theater show that ended in a violent riot in which Shelton’s father, Opal & […]
Tanzanian novelist 73-year-old Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah migrated to England as a refugee in the late 1960s. He was a Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury, until his recent retirement. Gurnah is the first black African author to have won the award […]
Former President Trump said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley should be court-martialed if it’s true that, as reported, Milley thought Trump would orchestrate a coup. Trump’s latest angst comes against the backdrop of a book titled, “I Alone Can Fix It,” by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. Excerpt from the book charged that Milley believed Trump would try to stay […]
William Henry Gates III, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist, recently announced his summer reading list for 2021. In a blog post announcing the list, Gates wrote, “When I finish one book and am deciding what to read next, there usually isn’t always rhyme or reason to what I pick. Sometimes I’ll read one […]
Are you looking for something worthwhile to read this summer? I have the perfect book just for you. “Murphy’s Law” is the first in a series of 17 mystery novels written by Rhys Bowen, the author of the Anthony Award- and Agatha Award-winning Molly Murphy Mysteries. We meet Molly Murphy, a no-nonsense, feisty, redhead Irishwoman from Ballykillin, County Mayo. Today, […]
The novel titled, The Search For God At Harvard by Ari L. Goldman is not only inspirational but also educational. The following is Dallas Librarian Catherine Ritchie’s take on this book: In 1985, New York Times religion reporter Goldman – currently a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University – was granted leave to take a year of classes at Harvard […]
Brian Malloy’s acclaimed debut novel titled, The Year Of The Ice has its setting in Minneapolis in the late 70s. This book is a story of a painfully revealing year, threatening to shatter the tenuous bonds between a father and his teenage son. Teenager Kevin, our narrator, is coping with the recent death of his mother in a car accident […]
