Book Review: Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister
Erica Bauermeister is one of those authors who just resonates with me. After reading her The School of Essential Ingredients (read the review here), I knew she would instantly hold the title of my...
View ArticleBook Review: A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your...
I consider myself a rare breed. I’m an African American twenty-something woman who grew up in the suburbs of Boston. Though I currently live in NYC, my roots (no matter how bougie I may have become)...
View ArticleDemetria Lucas
Demetria Lucas is the author of the 2011 release, A Belle in Brooklyn, The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life. She got her start on the blog of the same title and has become widely...
View ArticleBook Review: Ten Beach Road by Wendy Wax
Ten Beach Road takes readers on a journey through the lives of three brilliantly different women: Madeline Singer, Avery Lawford, and Nicole Grant. The one thing they have in common? The fact that...
View ArticleBook Review: Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
I picked up Story of Beautiful Girl at a closing sale for what will always be my favorite bookstore. As I shopped the Borders in Columbus Circle, NYC with a handcart full of paperbacks, my eye caught...
View ArticleBook Review: I Dare To Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and...
Sometimes, a book comes along that reaches out and grabs at your soul. I Dare To Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival, is one of those books. Edited by Hilda Twongyeirwe through...
View ArticleBook Review: The Darlings by Christina Alger
I received a copy of The Darlings by Christina Alger for review from the kind folks over at The Penguin Group. The cover blew me away and communicated everything I imagined about the text: opulence,...
View ArticleBook Review: Ivyland by Miles Klee
When I read the synopsis of Ivyland by Miles Klee, I had to pick it up. I am constantly trying to test myself by reading new books outside of my comfort zone. I thought this would be a great piece to...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Who Asked You?’ by Terry McMillan
I must admit, I finally read my first Terry McMillan book a few years ago. I’d recently been wronged by a boy and decided to pick up Waiting to Exhale, and, man, did that book set me free. I really...
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