When Is Mourning Enough? Childhood is a shield. You’re shielded from loss, protected from the emptiness that comes from it. I still remember vividly the first time someone close to me died around me and I was aware of death; He was my favorite uncle, my mum’s immediate elder brother and I saw my mum cry for the first time, and I couldn’t make sense of it. I was well aware my Uncle had just died but I didn’t actually get the grasped the concept of the finality of death. So when i see how broken my mum was, I was so sad about the fact that my mom was sad but not that my uncle just died and it ..read more

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt is Most Recent Reads. This weeks topic is an easy one- our ten most recent reads! 2021 somehow started out strong for me in regards to how much reading I’ve gotten done. Unlike Last year. I was in a not so great space mentally last year and that imparted on how much reading i got done. But this year has proven to be a bit kinder on my ability to focus and actually enjoy reading again  and I made a decision to read more books from African authors this ..read more

Not Everybody Is Going to Like YouHi Loves Feels so good to be back to blogging again and in honor of that, I have decided to broadens this blog as much as possible so I’ve decided that every week, I will be bringing to you a new segment about PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT and acceptance. I was always the smallest in class growing up and people would tease me about my size and thereby unknowingly develop a form of resentment and insecurity about my height and my undeveloped body even if I was significantly younger then most peers in my class and it was understandable to be smaller and underdevelop ..read more

I feel like I am often skimming on the book content for the blog, but have plenty of movies and TV shows to talk about. In an effort to combine those… Book to Screen Adaptations 2021 The post Book to Screen Adaptations 2021 appeared first on DIARY-OF-A-BLACK-CITY-GIRL ..read more

Affiliate links // After last years post We Need To Talk and the promise I made to myself that I would stop following the crowd and start posting … My 2021 Bookshelf TBR: 8 Books I Want To Read This Year The post My 2021 Bookshelf TBR: 8 Books I Want To Read This Year appeared first on DIARY-OF-A-BLACK-CITY-GIRL ..read more

So the dumpster fire of a year is finally over!! wow it has been a million years and also one day of a year and holy I think I speak for all of us … My Favorite Books From 2020 // Books That Saved The Year! The post My Favorite Books From 2020 // Books That Saved The Year! appeared first on DIARY-OF-A-BLACK-CITY-GIRL ..read more

In the spirit of following the advice I gave recently about ways to spruce up your book blog, I’ve been doing a spring clean of my own blog over the … Help Me Solve A Book Blogging Dilemma The post Help Me Solve A Book Blogging Dilemma appeared first on DIARY-OF-A-BLACK-CITY-GIRL ..read more

Not everybody is going to like you, and you know that? I accept that. We live in a world where there are so many people living to please others. So … Not Everybody Is Going to Like You The post Not Everybody Is Going to Like You appeared first on DIARY-OF-A-BLACK-CITY-GIRL ..read more

I have never loved a plot so much while also viscerally hating the way it’s written.  Scarlet and her sister, Donatella, have always dreamed of going… Book Review: Caraval The post Book Review: Caraval appeared first on DIARY-OF-A-BLACK-CITY-GIRL ..read more

how sweet to find this book   sitting outside on the window ledge of a downtown store   on a sunny saturday just waiting for someone to pick it up … book fairies. The post book fairies. appeared first on DIARY-OF-A-BLACK-CITY-GIRL ..read more