I’m not quite feeling my current format of titling these grouped review posts. The previous one is “Short Reviews of a Kang, a Clemmons and a Manyika“. On one hand, a generic “Review ...
The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Book Are My Favourite Things. The idea is to connect a book selected by the host to another book of your choice through six criteria of your choo...
I have read a ton of books in previous years but I’ve neglected to comment about them on this blog (not a surprise). There are several I want to rescue from the silent abyss and will do so ...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/06/06/short-reviews-of-a-kang-a-clemmons-and-a-manyika/
The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Book Are My Favourite Things. The idea is to connect a book selected by the host to another book of your choice through six criteria of your choo...
After a long absence, I’m delighted with this return to book reviewing! ——— Terror and dread, in my reading life, are measured on a scale of the mildly unsettling to the Pedro Paramo, Ju...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/05/on-andres-barbas-such-small-hands-and-jose-saramagos-cain/
“I decided as soon as I got up that there comes a time when the botheration and fabrication is too much, even for a man of my considerable fortitude. I want to spend my remaining years with Mor...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/10/20/mr-loverman-by-bernardine-evaristo/
Mini-reviews are how I catch up! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon – A very popular book about fifteen-year old Christopher and the mystery surrounding the death ...
I’m about to do a thing. 1. Jalada’s ‘Afrofuture(s)‘ was posted on January 15, 2015 and I haven’t read a single story from the issue. 2. The collective announced The Jalada Prize on Feb...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/02/16/jaladas-afrofutures-and-the-jalada-prize/
(This is what writing friends and feminist sisters are for: they save your blog from languishing and sinking into obscurity! Nana Darko Sekyiamah is a writer and a blogger. She co-founded the...
https://kinnareads.com/2013/08/14/nana-darkoa-reviews-yewande-omotosos-bom-boy/
Novels get all the love. Among Bessie Head’s novels, A Question of Power certainly hogs most of the (deserving) attention. But Ms. Head also wrote shorts stories, twenty five of which are col...
https://kinnareads.com/2013/07/09/on-bessie-heads-tales-of-tenderness-and-power/