Switching it up (just slightly) to bring you my 9 favorite memoirs I read in 2024 in no particular order cause wow, they were all so good. Plus a bonus of my 3 favorite works of fiction I read this year. As usual, each book is accompanied by my favorite line from it. Re-visiting theseContinue reading “My 2024 in Books”
Author Archives: Jackie Domenus
The Top 10 Books I Read in 2023
Happy end of year round-up! As usual, I didn’t read as much as I should have this year cause…life. BUT, the books I did read were phenomenal. Lots of beautiful queer stories, more fiction than usual (!), and finally completed the Kiese Laymon holy trinity. Sharing my countdown here, as well as my favorite lineContinue reading “The Top 10 Books I Read in 2023”
The Top 10 Books I Read in 2022
I didn’t read quite as much as I’d have liked to this year, but why fixate on not meeting a goal when I can spend time celebrating the beautiful words I did read instead? Right? Right?! Another year, another round of Canva-made images feat. my favorite lines from my favorite books. May your 2023 beContinue reading “The Top 10 Books I Read in 2022”
The Top 12 Books I Read in 2021
I could write another recap similar to last year’s…about how this year was a dumpster fire and how I was too lazy to write out a full review for each and every book…BUT, let’s just skip over that and jump right into my favorite lines from my favorite books I read in 2021. I amContinue reading “The Top 12 Books I Read in 2021”
REVIEW: HONEY GIRL Highlights the Importance of Found Family in Our Twenty-Somethings
“God bless these twenty-somethings” SZA sings on the final track of her groundbreaking 2017 album, CTRL, and though it’s a four-year-old song, it feels like the soundtrack to Morgan Rogers’ brilliant 2021 debut novel, Honey Girl. Honey Girl tells the story of Grace Porter, a queer Black woman in her late twenties who works herContinue reading “REVIEW: HONEY GIRL Highlights the Importance of Found Family in Our Twenty-Somethings”
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