Books

Daka I gradually open my eyes, allowing my vision to adjust to the world around me. The colors appear blurry at first, but I can still make out the vibrant hues of my mother’s floral-patterned gown as she stands by my side, peering down with concern to see if I’m…

When I look around myself, be it in real life or the digital world, I only feel the rush. The rush to be more, and do more. Perhaps, do 3 things at a time or achieve everything by the age of 21. …

All of them made it easier for me to stop overthinking — You probably spend too much time in your head. I won’t judge you because I used to do the same thing. For several years, I tried to eliminate negative thoughts that sabotaged my mental health. …

This existential ambiguity, she asserts, is not something to be feared. — “Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. Its mind is full…

This book about Black hair reintroduced me to myself — I recently read Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri. I read a lot of books but this one hit different. It somehow introduced me to myself and I walked away more confident in myself and in my identity. In her book, Dabiri uses history and…

‘Never marry’ and other secrets to a world-class writer’s success — Philip Roth isn’t quite the Tom Brady of American fiction. Even his most ardent fans don’t call him the greatest of all time, not with literary forebears like Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. But you could argue that no novelist of the past quarter century stayed at the top of…

Two books terrified me, neither was scarier than the monster in my home. — “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” — Edgar Allan Poe “Do you want to watch a movie?” I asked my wife the other afternoon. “Why don’t we watch tonight?” she responded knowing where this was going. “It’s a scary movie. I…

“The Author Has Knocked It Out Of The Park” — My Dream Book The Book Of My Dreams My Nightmare Book But In My Sweet Dreams (Wow, this makes perfect sense.) My Bittersweet Dream Book But In Reality My Sour Dreams That Will Make Your Heart Rate Spike My Spicy Dreams That Will Make Your Blood Pressure Spike (Mamma Mia…