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Welcome back to Street Reads, where I share monthly recaps of the books I’m reading, as well as my blurbs and reviews for them.

If you read my newsletter last month, you know that March was a bit of a slump for me. Only two books that whole month, which was a low for me since I began this new reading push over a year ago. But April was a bit of a return to form! Back up to five books, which is more like it! And what a great set of books to review, be...

Welcome back to Street Reads, where I share monthly recaps of the books I’m reading, as well as my blurbs and reviews for them. March turned out to present a twofold problem for my reading pace: 1) it was just a busier month by nature, and 2) I found myself starting so many great new books that finishing them all by the end of the month became impossible. The bad news is that I really only managed to finish two books this month. The good news is that April’s edition of Str...

If there’s one thing I’ll never forget, it’s the sound of my mother‘s footsteps as she came upstairs on the morning of Easter Sunday in 2005, exactly 20 years ago today. “I don’t know how to tell you this,” she said as her eyes filled with tears. “There’s been ...

Welcome back to Street Reads, where I share monthly recaps of the books I’m reading, as well as my blurbs and reviews for them. February was Black History Month, and although readers should be immersing themselves in a variety of story worlds from a wide range of perspectives all year round, this month is an especially good time to enjoy and reflect more deeply on books written by Black authors. From Viola Davis’s showstopping memoir to Percival Everett’s breath...

Welcome to Street Reads, where I’ll share monthly recaps of the books I’m reading, as well as my blurbs and reviews for them. Although 2024 proved largely to be a dumpster fire of a year, it was my lifetime personal best year for reading. Stories are critically important to me, and sharing them is equally sacred. I hope you might find inspiration for your next amazing read right here! I welcome conversations about these books, and any recommendations you may have for me for ...

I’m going to state right off the bat that, yes, I have a set of layered, nuanced points to make about what it means to “grow up” even after you’re well into adulthood. If you’re here to read about that, I promise you it’s coming. And I think you’re going to love it!

But to properly illustrate those points later, I first need to talk to you about one of my favorite films of all time:

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Call it confirmation bias, but in my circles, there seems to be a consensus: 2024 was not as kind to many of us as we would have liked. For some of us, 2024 was actively unkind, and some of us found ourselves spiraling out of control, crashing into the abyss of human crisis, and wondering which way is up.

It’s me. I’m some of us.

And like so many people do, I kept much of the hardship of this dis...