Tag: Books

• March ‘21 Reads and Ratings

  Links to books:Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins Caucasia by Danny Senna Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi Shades in Shadow by N.K. Jemisin The Devil You Know by Charles M Blow The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson

  Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure

  May 1, 2021

  Books

  Beverly Jenkins, Book Ratings, Books, Caucasia, Charles M Blow, Danzy Senna, Fiction, Four Hundred Souls, Good Reads Challenge 2021, Ibram X. Kendi, Ksisha N. Blain, N.K. Jemisin, Nancy Johnson, Non-Fiction, Shades in Shadow, The Devil You Know, The Kindest Lie, Wild Rain

• January ‘21 Reads and Ratings

  The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Patriarch by Brandon MasseyAwakening by Nora Roberts Dispossession by Tayari Jones The Patriarch was suspenseful with a wallop of supernatural! Finished the 3rd book in […]

  Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure

  May 1, 2021

  Books

  Black Buck, Book Ratings, Book Reviews, Books, Brandon Massey, Deesha Philyaw, Dispossession, Fantasy, Fiction, Good Reads Challenge 2021, Historical Fiction, Libby, Mateo Askaripour, N.K. Jemisin, Speculative Fiction, Tayari Jones, The House In The Cerulean Sea, The Patriarch, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, The Stone Sky, TJ Klune

• November Reads & Ratings

  *All book descriptions taken from Amazon.com The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby Book Description*: The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don’t know. Equal parts painful and inspirational, it details how the American church has helped create and maintain racist ideas and practices. You […]

  Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure

  November 30, 2020

  Books

  Books, Non-Fiction, Reading Fiction

• My Book Rating System

  I rate book with DNF – ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ stars based on each of the following: 1. Readability – Well written? – Strong chapter beginnings and endings – Well developed characters – Page turner? 2. Engagement – Was I fully engaged? Did I lose myself in the read? – Was it hard to […]

  Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure

  November 29, 2020

  Books

  #BookRatings, #Non-Fiction, Books, feature, Fiction

• Book Review: Pale by Edward Farmer

  Edward Farmer’s engrossing debut, Pale, begins in 1966 in the burning heat of Mississippi, when Bernice, whose husband left with all their savings and didn’t return, accepts her brothers invitation to join him in working on a cotton plantation. She is slowly immersed into a household full of secrets, deception, revenge, and downright cruelty, which […]

  Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure

  February 16, 2020

  Books

  ARC, authors, Books, debut authors, Fiction, Mississippi, netgalley

• Book Review: The Missing American

  Kwei Quartey’s newest novel, The Missing American, opens with a sniper assassination of a Ghanaian presidential candidate, and then we are introduced to Emma Djan, whose dreams of a promising career in the Ghana Police Service are dashed when she tearfully refuses an offer of a position in Homicide in return for sex. The Deputy […]

  Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure

  February 5, 2020

  Books

  Books, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Novels, Novels set in Ghana