All Boys Aren’t Blue Audiobook Review

by Courtney Meunier | Dec 17, 2020 | Audiobook, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA contemporary

By George M. Johnson All Boys Aren’t Blue (Audiobook Review) Part manifesto, part memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue explores sexuality, gender, and race through the lens of George M. Johnson’s life as a queer, Black person growing up in America.  A stroke of genius...

Children of the Land Review

by Courtney Meunier | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, Nonfiction

By Marcello Hernandez Castillo Children of the Land (Review) Poetry made prose, Children of the Land is the memoir of a Mexican man growing up undocumented in America.  Metaphor-rich and vivid, the writing comes to life with themes of movement and belonging as the...

How We Fight For Our Lives

by Courtney Meunier | Aug 29, 2020 | Book Review, Bookish Blog, Nonfiction

By Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives (Review) The raw and unflinching look into the life of a black, gay man growing up in America, How We fight for Our lives is, and will continue to be, an incredibly poignant story.  An award-winning essayist, Saeed Jones gives...

Brain on Fire Audiobook Review

by Courtney Meunier | Jan 25, 2020 | Audiobook, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, Nonfiction

By Susannah Cahalan Brain on Fire (Audiobook Review) In a way, more startling than a Stephen King novel, Brain on Fire is the story of how, suddenly and without a known cause, Susannah Cahalan went from successful and neurotypical journalist to a paranoid mess who...

Blackklansman Audiobook Review

by Courtney Meunier | Dec 20, 2019 | Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, Nonfiction

By Ron Stallworth Black Klansman (Review) Blackklansman has gained popularity since being adapted into an award-winning movie directed by Spike Lee.  That’s how I first heard about it. But even so, I was intrigued by the premise: Ron Stallworth was the first...