• Book Review

    The Bluest Eye

    In an effort to expand my reading to incorporate black voices, I decided I'd start off Black History Month 2024 with Toni Morrison's first novel. I knew almost nothing about it going into it. But I did know that Toni Morrison is prolific author. I wonder how this book will…

  • Book Review

    Flowers for Algernon

    I've heard about this book a lot, but somehow it's never really made it to my reading list. I suppose that's because I never really knew what it was about. But recently I was seeing it on a lot of top sci-fi book lists and I thought, hmm, I didn't…

  • Book Review

    Of Mice and Men

    I’ve always been interested in reading John Steinbeck. In high school I had the option of reading The Grapes of Wrath or Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. I chose poorly, as the Grail Knight would say. Anyway, I’m wandering through a Maui Friends of the Library bookshop and am…