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.
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This is definitely not the stuff they teach you during Black History Month.
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My only complaint was that this wasn’t longer.
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Heart and Brain are a pair that show the inner conflicts that each of us face in balancing what we NEED to do with what we WANT to do.
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Lady Stuff: Secrets to Being a Woman is a collection of comic panels depicting the relatable stuff that comes along with being a lady. From self-care to ambitions, many of my fellow ladies will be able to relate. This quick read will have you realizing that you’re not the only one who goes through this.
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Anda has just moved from San Diego to Flagstaff, Arizona. She’s adjusting to the new circumstances and trying to figure out who she is, or at least who she wants to be. So when Miss Liza McCombs comes all the way from Australia to speak to her tech class about a multiplayer role-playing game called
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Following along the same premise as book one, Scott enters into further conflict involving relationships, rival bands, and another evil ex-boyfriend to battle. We are also given some backstory into Scott’s own past. New characters are brought in and old motives take center stage. Again, I really loved the art of the novel, but the
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The story of Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life is an awkward tale of 23-year-old Scott Pilgrim, his Indie Rock band, his high school girlfriend, and the perplexing Ramona Flowers. The encounter with the literal girl of his dreams changes his life forever. Scott will soon discover that there is much more to Ramona Flowers than
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The Kite Runner follows the friendship between Amir, son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, and his servant Hassan. It explores the ranks of classicism and its effects on lifestyle, education, and ultimate purpose of life. The two are eventually separated due to dynamic issues coinciding with the instability of the Afghan government. The story itself
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Little Rock Nine is a graphic novel set in 1957 that uses fictional characters to relay the true story of the first nine students to successfully integrate an all-white public high school in Arkansas. It presents the perspectives of those who were for and against integration, along with their reasoning. I enjoyed the graphics of
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