A book review of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Low-key spoilers ahead. In Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi brings the full force and breadth of a high fantasy adventure novel to Africa. High fantasy – typically described as fiction where action takes place in an invented magical world – is … More Fantasy, but Make it Yoruba
In Columbus, Ohio, there’s an area just north of Downtown called the Short North; once a neighborhood-friendly haven for the arts, it has become synonymous with trend-chasing mediocrity and drunk people named Chad. Among other more nuanced issues, the impossibility of finding parking makes the happiness meters of most who go there half-empty before they … More Bad Waffles at Belgian Iron Wafel Company
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman It will come as a surprise to none people that Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published 1792, was too dense for me to finish. I started reading it in January as the first of my self-imposed book club of one focusing … More A Vindication of My Rights Not to Finish this Book
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