by Lavaille Lavette | Mar 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
From brooding, surrealist epics by the crafting hand of Murukami, to dark, noir thrillers between Manila and New York, to political hot potatoes that consider the state of contemporary China, this list of 10 award-winning books by Asian writers in the last 10 years is...
by Lavaille Lavette | Mar 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Being a Latina, I am always on the search for books written by Latinx writers. It doesn’t matter if the characters in the book aren’t Latinx, I think it’s so very important to support them just as much. And this post is mainly about that: about shouting and screaming...
by Lavaille Lavette | Mar 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Bluest Eye In Morrison’s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will...
by Lavaille Lavette | Mar 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Just as I am by Cicely Tyson “Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. Here, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church...
by Lavaille Lavette | Oct 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
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by Lavaille Lavette | Apr 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Melbourne, Australia–Last year, Rio Tinto made an astounding discovery at its Argyle mine in Western Australia and never said a word about it. The diamond mining company unearthed a 9.17-carat piece of rough that yielded a stone Rio Tinto Diamonds’ Patrick...
