SCCCLD Book Challenge

I really enjoyed Binti so much. It was a quick read, more of a novella than a novel, but the story was tight and not at all wasteful in th...

One of the categories for the 2019 Read Harder Challenge is to read an epistolary novel. Epistolary novels are my favorite and I have alre...

Underground Airlines was an amazing ride! The book is set in 2016, but in an America in which the Civil War was never fought and amendme...

Though published in 2016, this is an old-school romance. And I mean that in a good way. Jenkins builds a community here with a wonderful ca...

Kindred is one of those books I've been meaning to read the last couple of years and only finally got around to it. The story in...

Isaiah Quintabe was a 16 year old urban teen in LA with a great future. Teachers were already beginning to talk about Ivy league school appl...

Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean were the best of friends in high school during the late 1960s; they were dubbed "The Supremes" a...

Multiple reviews and several recommendations led me to this title.  I was also familiar with Kidd's popular title The Secret Life of  Be...

Wrong place and wrong time? Or guilty as charged? Doesn't matter. For a young black man in the South in the late 1940's the outcome...

"In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven...

   I read this on the recommendation of Lisa Kimmel at Kisker Road. We had been talking about how much we enjoyed Bel Canto  when Lisa said ...

Highly successful producer of a TV talk show, Maxine McCoy returns to her childhood roots in Philadelphia to help her grandmother, Lindy.  L...

Suddenly, Coltrane finds himself dumped in a rough neighborhood in north Philadelphia . At her wits end, his mother has turned him over to ...

Another good Sugar Plum Ballerinas book. This time, the character featured is Jerzey Mae, one of the triplets. She seems to have a mild o...

This the second in the series and is just as good as the first book. This book focuses on Brenda instead of Al as in the last book. The f...