Book 13: The Taste of Salt-Martha Southgate

In essence, this novel is about flawed people with a flawed family, who try to do right, try and lead normal productive lives, and still find themselves in messy, difficult, overwhelming situations. What was refreshing about The Taste of Salt, was that it had atypical Black characters with both typical Black-life problems and typical life problems…

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All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks (Book 11)

Admission: this is the first bell hooks work I’ve read cover to cover (I’m not much of an Oberlin alum). I chose this book out of intrigue–the first sentence of the back cover description read: “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet…we would all love better if we used it as…

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