Title: Half Bad Author: Sally Green Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers Publication Date: 2014 ISBN: 9780670016785 Synopsis for Goodreads: Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifyingContinue reading “Review: Half Bad by Sally Green”
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Review: Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
*I received this book from Simon & Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Glory Over Everything Author: Kathleen Grissom Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: April 5, 2016 ISBN: 9781476748443 Synopsis from Goodreads: This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home,Continue reading “Review: Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom”
Review: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
*I received my copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: God Help the Child Author: Toni Morrison Publisher: Knopf Publication Date: April 2015 ISBN: 9780307594174 Synopsis from Goodreads: Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a taleContinue reading “Review: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison”
Review: Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady
*I received this copy from Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Emancipation Day Author: Wayne Grady Publisher: Anchor Canada Publication Date: paperback, November 2014 ISBN: 9780385677684 Synopsis from Goodreads: With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes theContinue reading “Review: Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady”
Review: Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird
Title: Boy, Snow, Bird Author: Helen Oyeyemi Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc. Date Published: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-14-318743-1 Released on Monday of this week, Boy, Snow, Bird, a postmodern retelling of the classic Snow White, features Boy Novak who we meet as a fifteen-year-old who is subject to the violence of anContinue reading “Review: Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird”
Lawrence Hill’s “Some Great Thing”
Some Great Thing Lawrence Hill Published: 1992 Publisher: Harper Perennial ISBN: 978-1-55468-694-0 Written by the same author who brought us The Book of Negroes, the novel Some Great Thing tells the story of Winnipeg native, Mahatma Grafton, a young and passionate journalist. As a young black man with a very unique name, Mahatma faces assumptions about raceContinue reading “Lawrence Hill’s “Some Great Thing””
Worn Pages and Ink 