Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The best book I read this year and the one I have recommended the most to others. This powerful book should be required reading, as it taught me so much about the black experience, both here in America and in Africa, over the past two centuries. Homegoing follows two branches of a family tree, starting in eighteenth-century Ghana. One branch of the family stays in Africa, while the other is sold into slavery …
Category: Reading
What I’m Clicking: November
More and more I’m interested in good long-form writing. And by long form, I mean more than a two-paragraph news blurb. The market for this kind of writing has been decimated in the past decade—to write an article of any length is complete anathema to the digital reader. But part of me wants these stories now. They are interesting. They explore topics I hadn’t known I wanted to learn more about. They tell me more …
My Favorite Books of 2016
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I had a book review blog. And while I don’t blog there anymore, I certainly didn’t stop reading and I definitely didn’t stop having opinions about what I read. So once a year I like to share my favorite books, the ones I’d recommend you pick up as well. Let me know what you’re reading and loving, too! If you have a macabre fascination with cults (like me), …
