Book Beat quick takes on The Epic Crush of Genie Lo! Miles Morales and more!

The Lovely Erica August 1, 2017 Book Beat, Book Reviews, The Lovely Erica

San Diego Comic Con may be over (boo!), but there are plenty of books that will let you hold onto that feeling! The Epic Crush of a Genie Lo is a perfect popcorn book featuring a girl battling to get into college and demons. Did you catch Donald

Book Beat’s best of 2016! Recommending my 30 (!) favorite books of the year!

The Lovely Erica December 10, 2016 Book Beat, Book Reviews, The Lovely Erica

Can you believe we’re almost done with 2016? Yeah, good riddance. While this isn’t the best year, there were some remarkable books that helped make this year tolerable. These are my books I read in 2016 so a few came out last year and there are some

Book Beat! Quick takes on #WeNeedDiverseBooks with The Great American Whatever and All American Boys!

The Lovely Erica March 15, 2016 Book Beat, Book Reviews, The Lovely Erica

The world is a huge rainbow of humanity and this is slowly being represented in our arts. Real slow if you look at this year’s Oscars which strove for greater diversity, but then included racist Asian jokes and ignored others all together. So, yes, diversity sucks in

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