Grayson Studios Blog

I haven’t posted much on books lately.  That doesn’t mean I am not reading!  Over the last several weeks I have read all kind of books on different topics.  Below I have shared what I have recently read AND I list a few of the titles in my stack for summer reading. Nnedi Okorafor I [...]

The last couple of weeks have been great for reading for the African Diasora Reading challenge. I completed two books last week. The first book was Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa. The cover of the book alone made me want to read it.  Then I realized that the maternal ancestor was an artist [...]

This novel is poetry in prose.  I mean the language, THE LANGUAGE is really beautiful.  For me the book reads like a fable.  I hear the voice of the narrator actually reading to me.  This is the first book I have read by Yvonne Vera.  I was not aware of her work but I am [...]

Well, I have finished my first read of 2010 for the African Diaspora reading challenge.  I read Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House. I have to admit I didn’t love this book. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either.  I felt like I never got into the interior lives of the characters in [...]

So reading challenges are new for me but I found this site while surfing the web for books to add to my vacation reading list and I could not resist joining the African Diaspora Reading Challenge.  In the last three days I have caught up with all of my magazine reading (American Craft, FibreArts, Studios [...]