About

Rae is a Haitian-American writer and educator, born and raised in South Florida. She received a 2018 Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition for her poem “Red Blood Cell.” She earned her bachelor’s as a double major in Psychology and English with a Concentration in Multicultural and Gender Studies and her master’s in English Literature with a Specialization in Caribbean Literature from Florida Atlantic University. Her poetry has been published and/or forthcoming in Rigorous Magazine, The Anti-Languorous Project, and Strange Horizons. You can find her nerding out over her latest reads @raethereviewer on Instagram and Tik Tok.

  • Mini Review Monday -Thrifting Adventures

    So last Monday, my best friend and I went to World of Thrift. As the book nerd I am, I went with the sole intention of finding some bargain books. They just renovated and the book section was really nice. I didn’t take the best pictures while I was there, so I’ll just include pictures

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  • End of the Streak

    So these past two weeks, I’ve been posting end of the week recaps. I had been posting daily during that week. It wasn’t even on purpose, it just kind of happened. This week, I didn’t post on Wednesday, so that ended the 14+ day streak. I think I’ll still post these at the end of

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  • The Poet X (Book Review)

    The Poet X (Book Review)

    I added this book to my collection at the start of the year after all it’s hype. You can check out that post here. Before getting into the review, we have to look through this mini photo shoot:

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  • Grownish Season 2 Episode 4 Recap + Discussion

    I guess I’m making this into a regular thing. *SPOILERS AHEAD* Recap So the episode started with Zoey doing her little monologue on geniuses and what it meant to be one. There’s all this news about some mystery artist dropping an album and Aaron decides to throw a kickback for it.

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  • Two for Tuesday Participants

    If you missed it last week, I posted my official prompts for the February Two for Tuesday. It’s a tag that I’m trying to start for book blogging. You can join at any time, just make sure to comment here or on last week’s post and link back to me in your Two for Tuesday.

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  • Mini Review Monday – The Last OG

    I’m trying out a new series! If you’d like to participate, just comment down below. Mini-Review Monday is just that, a mini-review on a Monday. It can be on books, products, or TV shows/movies.

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  • Another Week of Posts

    I know last week I said that I wouldn’t be keeping up with this whole posting every day thing. I don’t know how, but it happened again. I posted for another week straight. That’s two consecutive weeks of posts! It may not seem like a big deal, but this is the most active I’ve been

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  • The Hookup Plan (Show Review)

    I had seen this around social media but I hadn’t thought too much of it until I saw Kat gushing about it on her blog. I decided I should watch it, and boy was it worth watching. I finished all eight episodes one after the other. It was beautiful. The basic premise is that Elsa’s

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  • My 2019 Reading + Blogging Goals

    I know I’m super late on the trend. I’ve been reading a bunch of other bloggers’ goals for the year and it left me inspired. This year, I’m going to set four major goals for myself. Two for reading, two for blogging. Reading Goals:

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  • Grownish Season 2 Episode 3 (Recap + Discussion)

    Last week’s recap seemed to get a lot of attention. Let me know if this is something you’re enjoying! *SPOILERS AHEAD* Recap This episode was filled with drama. It was definitely something I could see going on in real life, but I wish these episodes were an hour long.

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