2025 BookOfCinz Book Club
BookOfCinz Book Club is going into its seventh year in 2025. For the last six years we have been meeting in person in Trinidad and Tobago and online so we can have people from all over the world joining. In 2023 we started reading Caribbean and African male authors. We do continue to read and […]
2024 BookOfCinz Book Club
BookOfCinz Book Club is going into its sixth year in 2024. For the last five years we have been meeting in person in Trinidad and Tobago and online so we can have people from all over the world joining. In 2023 we started reading Caribbean and African male authors. We do continue to read and […]
How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
This is the gold standard of memoirs. Brilliant, moving, an emotional journey, layered, spectacular, heavy, redeeming, unforgettable and un-putdownable. I read this book a month ago and I am still unable to put into words how brilliant this memoir is. My life is forever changed reading this book. Safiya Sincliar’s writing is forever in my […]
How Not To Drown In A Glass Full Of Water by Angie Cruz
WOW!!!! This book has everything! Stop what you are doing and go read this. In Angie Cruz How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water we meet Cara Romero who is originally from the Dominican Republic, she’s been living in NYC for decades after leaving DR and her abusive husband. She’s hit a bit […]
A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks
An exceptional collection of short stories that will leave you breathless. Friends, I am still unable to put into words how profoundly moving this entire collection is. Chimeka Garricks is a master storyteller who deserves to be read widely. I need to see more people talking about this book that left me speechless. A BROKEN […]
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
A novel that holds your face and shows you the reality that some people live and does not let go of you till you are weeping…. We waited six years for the author to write her second book and trust me when I say, this did not disappoint. As with her first book, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ […]
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer
This is what I mean by a stellar debut! I am blown away! Soraya Palmer was flexing on us when she wrote this debut novel and I am here for it, because it is truly an experience reading this book and I need everyone to engage with what true storytelling looks like. The Human Origins […]
2022 BookOfCinz Book Club
BookOfCinz Book Club is turning four years old in 2022! In 2018 I decided to start BookOfCinz Book Club to meet and engage with Readers. I read a lot, but getting to sit and discuss one book with a group of persons, that experience in and of itself is unmatched. The BookOfCinz Book Club is […]
Six Things I Learned Taking a Social Media Break
After an intense month of June, I decided to take a social media break. June is #ReadCaribbean month and I spent every single day of June showing up online for challenges, interviews and making sure the mission was being carried out. The last few days in June I was ready for the month to be […]
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