Black Sunday

My 13th Aspen Words Literary Prize 2021 Longlist read and review. Despite my best efforts, I did not make it to all 15 longlist books before the shortlist was announced. However, I made it through this one, so I was only two books short. I’m honestly not upset about that – I was pretty close!…

Girl, Woman, Other

I had never heard of Bernardine Evaristo before this novel won the Booker Prize this past year (and yes, I am going to choose to believe that she won it singularly, for many reasons…agree or disagree, that’s my stance). In any case, I knew that I wanted to support Evaristo, so I went ahead and…

Disappearing Earth

This National Book Award Finalist is one that’s been on my TBR since I read the synopsis…and, honestly, since I realized that I was well on my way to reading all the NBA finalists for 2019. That’s not usually a goal that I have, but since I’m close to it, I kind of want to…