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 Read Caribbean Releases
I know I say this every year but 2024 will be amazing year for persons who Read Caribbean. Some amazing debut Caribbean Authors will be hitting the shelves in 2024 and I am here to let you know about all of them! We will be reading novels, books from authors we haven’t read in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
BLOWN AWAY! What an unforgettable debut novel! Let me tell you, this book will be on every list come 2023. I truly cannot believe this is a debut novel, it is well written, filled with characters you cannot help but cheer for, who are going through relatable things. I cannot recommend Rootless enough. Rootless opens […]
God of Good Looks by Breanne Mc Ivor
The God of Good Looks steps on our necks and doesn’t let up until the very end! A satisfying, bold page turner with a heroine you can’t help but cheer for! In Breanne McIvor’s sizzling debut we are taken to Trinidad and Tobago where we meet Bianca Bridge, a budding writer who is starting over […]
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera
Neruda on the Park explores the age old question of “where is home”, is it a place? What is it? Home, she told herself, could be a place, a person, a feeling, at times, a profession, the end result of a long pursuit. A fluid thing, for sure, but precious. I absolutely loved reading this […]
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller
In Kei Miller’s long-awaited collection of essays Things I Have Withheld , he exams in the author note, silence, his body and how it is viewed by others. This is examination is continued throughout the collection. The title of the book Miller notes, was taken from poet, Dionne Brand. In each the essays he says, […]
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