Is There Hope?

It's Friday, instead of the typical Friday Reflections, let's ramble chat instead. Ha! 

I've got a lot on my mind recently but don't we all? 

I started writing this on Friday and only got to write two lines before I had to go back to work. I tried writing this on Saturday and had to upload this video, which kept failing so I spent my entire evening fixing that. Absolutely maddening. This is why I just write because all the other things are mad aggravating. I recorded like three takes, finally got a take that works, uploaded, and oops would not work no matter what I tried. Anyway, finally got it to work. So watch, watch, watch, comment, like, you know. Please encourage me because yo, those things are tough. 

And now, it is Sunday. So let's get on with this, shall we?

Book of the Month: Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

This was supposed to go out yesterday! But I completely forgot. Never mind, it's still Book of October. We'll get another Book of the Month in November: and this is a promise. Okay, welcome, folks, to Book of the Month. It's actually so crazy the year is about to end or maybe not because people, it has been a long year. I rarely get personal on here and I'm wishing I did because at least I could launch into how crazy this year has been. Yeah.

Anyway, the book of this month is Come and Get It by Kiley Reid, the same author who wrote the masterpiece, Such a Fun Age. To say that I loved that book would be an understatement so with that inherent trust for the author, I went into this one blindly, with no knowledge whatsoever what the book was about.

At about page 15 of this book, a Black girl (the daughter of a professor) overhead her a group of white girls refer to her as “ghetto.” And she found this so hilarious, so ridiculous. I chuckled and said out loud literally, “ah I’m going to like this book.” And like it I did.