Sometimes a novel will to come to your attention when you are just scrolling through Goodreads recommendations. I rarely take much notice to those recommendations, but when I saw The Hacienda by Isabel Canas, I immediately stop scrolling. I’m glad I did. The Hacienda...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 136: A Red Death by Walter Mosley
by MHill | Feb 28, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Easy Rawlins Series/Walter Mosley, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
When the IRS comes knocking at your door looking for back taxes, it will put you in an untenable position that provides no easy way out. Easy Rawlins finds himself in such a situation in the novel, A Red Death. A Red Death is the second novel in the Easy Rawlins...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 135: Suder by Percival Everett
by MHill | Feb 16, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Percival Everett, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Percival Everett has quickly joined my favorite author’s list, which includes Paul Auster, Octavia Butler, Jonathan Carroll, Charles de Lint, Guy Gavriel Kay, & Haruki Murakami. Having read multiple novels by these authors, I must say that Everett has ventured...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 134: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
by MHill | Feb 5, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Sometimes when you dive into a highly praised novel with certain expectations for the storyline, only to swiftly realize it takes an entirely different direction. This is the case with Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Spending the entire first month of 2024...