My Rating: 4 awesome stars!! Book Name: An Embarrassment of Mangoes (A Caribbean Interlude) Author: Ann Vanderhoof Genre: Non Fiction/Travelogue/Culture&History/Caribbean food recipe guide 😀 Before I start my review, here is some trivia. Did you know (because I didn’t, before I read this book): Receta means recipe in Spanish? Conch is a popular seafood inContinue reading “Book Review: An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof”
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Book Review: I know how she does it by Laura Vanderkam
My rating: 3.7 Stars The mosaic metaphor is that life consists of many tiles. Some tiles are stressful and some are wonderful. – Laura Vanderkam Laura’s statement above sums up her time management lesson in this book. It’s funny how I’ve started opening up to more self help books lately. I read an awesome self helpContinue reading “Book Review: I know how she does it by Laura Vanderkam”
My reading recap for 2016
I have to begin with how proud I felt of myself when I was able to read more than my set challenge for 2016 on Goodreads! That said, I realized, people actually read at least twice of how much I did normally- at least the serious readers..lol! So my huge challenge of reading 12 booksContinue reading “My reading recap for 2016”
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi – Book Review
“White” could be the way a person talked, “Black” the music a person listened to – Marjorie Once in a while you come across books that leave an impression on you, teach you something new and make you want to think a lot, ask a lot of questions and want to know more about theContinue reading “Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi – Book Review”
How I rate the books I read
Since this is my first post for the ‘Books & Music’ review category, I thought it would be best I explained my rating process for the books I read, since that is what I will be writing about in later posts. Before I begin this post, I’d just like to mention that I am inContinue reading “How I rate the books I read”