When you are coming back to reading after a long absence or starting to read for pleasure for the very first time, trying to answer…
Author: Hannah Bergstrom de Leon
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
– It’s Worth It! Handed to me by a teacher I have the privilege to work with on a weekly basis, Linda Sue Park’s “A…
Murder on the Red River by Marci R. Rendon
– It’s Worth It! Sometimes you just need to try something new, which was exactly my mood when I picked up Marcie R. Rendon’s “Murder…
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
– It’s Okay During my teen years I was obsessed with the Terry McMillian’s movie adaptations and as I was browsing a sale rack at…
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
– Meh… There comes a point apparently when one has read so many things that everything starts to sound the same and it takes a…
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
– It’s Worth It! Reading so often leads to more reading which is perhaps why it is one of my favorite pastimes. I reserved Natalie…
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
– It’s Worth It! Who doesn’t love a good sequel am I right? The same characters, a new challenge and often time a new foe…
We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile
– It Completes Me! I would never have expected a book written about farming to be such a page turner, but Natalie Baszile’s research, writing…
Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology
– It Completes Me! It won’t complete everyone and there are many people indeed who do not and would not like this anthology, but if…
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
– It’s Worth It! 2023 opened as the year of the short story. Whether it will last or not I have no idea but so…