Friday, August 25, 2017

Book Talk: Dorothy Koomson and Why I Love Her 😍 Books πŸ“š

Welcome to a book Talk all about the amazing Dorothy Koomson. 

  • How I Came Across Her Books
It's a long story and I tend to babble. So I was in sainsburys with my mum, - we normally never went into sainsburys because there were other food stores that were easier to get to where we lived - but this particular day we had gone to sainsburys because it was close to where we were going or had been. It wasn't the one in the town we lived in but the next town over where my mum worked. At the end of the aisle by the tills were some books on sale and for some reason I was drawn to two books in particular. Marshmallows for Breakfast and My Best Friends Girl. So my mum said pick them up. They were on a good deal 2 for £7 or £4.99 each. So I picked them up, we paid and left. From that moment on I loved her books. I found two more of her books (The Chocolate Run and The Cupid Effect and again fell in love) but the saddest thing was I lent three of the books out to someone and never got them back, years later I got one of the books as a present for Christmas and I found two more different books. 


  • Range of Topics
In the books that I've read (marshmallows for Breakfast, My Best Friends Girl, Goodnight, Beautiful and The Ice Cream Girls) there are a wide range of topics covered that 
  • Adoption 
  • Alcoholism 
  • Lies
  • Surrogacy
  • Murder
  • Love
  • Prison
  • Children
  • Single parenthood
  • Divorce
  • Betrayal
  • Racism 
  • Friendship
  • Loss of a friendship 
  • Loss of a relationship 


  • Diversity 
I find that most of the women authors that I read are white women who very rarely write a book with a black character in it (in fact even men authors there isn't a lot of black characters in their books or even characters of different ethnic origins. I can only think of four authors who have included different race and colour in their books. JK Rowling in the Harry Potter Series, John Green in Paper Towns, The Help by Kathryn Stockert and To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han are the only books that stand out that have various different ethnic backgrounds in them). But with Dorothy Koomson's book she has covered the fact that the characters are all different and not all just one ethnic background. What I also love about her books is that she covers all the topics and that she doesn't shy away from stereotypes and that people of colour go through more then what we think they do. 
What I liked about The Ice Cream Girls (which blew my mind it was so brilliant) was that even though I thought that one person had done the bad thing, it wasn't at all. It wasn't because of the colour of her skin it was because of the fact that she was the one to stand up for herself first. Also that your mind always changing back and forth between people who could have done it. 

  • Everyday Kinda Problems but not the classic First World Kinda Problems
Because of the vast majority of different topics that Dorothy covers in her books they are very much true to life kind of problems that majority of people go through everyday. They are so relatable to so many different people around the world. By first world I mean internet, tv, cell phone πŸ“± that kinda things. They cover bigger topics that people face everyday. 

  • UK covers
The U.K. Covers of the books are so beautiful  - not that the North American ones aren't - but the uk versions are so beautiful. 

  • Why I Love Her Books
Apart from they keep me hocked. It's the fact that Dorothy Koomson's writing style is right up my ally. Most books I read seem to have the same kind of themes, storyline, plots, how ever you want to put it, unlike most other books I read Dorothy's are from the perspective of black women. Dorothy has a way of bringing me in. For me I know a book will be good when I can imagine the characters off the page, and if they are standing in front of me and that's what Dorothy's books do so well. Admittedly I haven't read all of her books, but those I have are always on top of my recommendations for other people to read. 

Books I Have Read
  • The Cupid Effect
  • The Chocolate Run
  • My Best Friends Girl 
  • Marshmallows For Breakfast 
  • Goodnight, Beautiful 
  • The Ice Cream Girls





Books On My Shelf







Books I Don't Own



Lauren
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