2019 Reviews | Reseñas del 2019

See the links below for my thoughts on the books I read in 2019.

Vea los enlaces debajo para mis pensamientos sobre los libros que leí en el 2019.

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Mrs. Everything – Jennifer Weiner

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

‣ sista, siiiista

‣ detroit, but like no black people lmao

‣ so many stages of womanhood

‣ historical inaccuracy everywhere

"She loved [her daughters]. More than that, she admired them. They would be better than she was."

Full review here.

Tar Baby – Toni Morrison

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

‣ it's Toni fucking Morrison

‣ kind of weird

‣ complex relationships

“It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.”

Full review here.

Red at the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

‣ brooklyn

‣ family is hard

‣ black lit

‣ just like od heart wrenching

“If a body’s to be remembered, someone has to tell its story.”

Full review here.

Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together – Belinda Luscombe

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

‣ kind-of self-helpy

‣ relationship advice

‣ funny

"We don't find soulmates. We become them."

Full review here.

Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US – Lenny Duncan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

‣ I love this book

‣ attn: Lutherans

‣ black, queer, Christian lit

"The message of Jesus is radical and political."

Full review here.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

‣ so poetic wow

‣ queer lit, immigrant parents, drug use, trauma, war

"When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?"

Full review here.

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

‣ slow read, bildungsroman

‣ love story a lil bit

‣ lots of nature descriptions

"Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?"

Full review here.

Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

‣ sort of a bildungsroman

‣ nyc

‣ mental health, family stuff, a lil heavy ngl

"Love isn't enough. Not even close."

Full review here.

Sing to It: New Stories – Amy Hempel

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

‣ short stories

‣ beautiful, poetic writing

‣ complex

"But men don't care about a better person. You can't photograph virtue."

Full review here.

Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story – Jacob Tobia

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

‣ memoir

‣ queer lit

‣ not great with race, but otherwise solid

"Yes, I may have been queening out in the church musical, but I was queening out for Jesus, so it was fine."

Full review here.

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