Hello and welcome to the hand cell where interesting people tell us about books they think that we should read.

I'm Jen Northington coming to you from Book Riot and today's guest is Danielle

Prescott. Welcome, Danielle. Thank you. Happy to be here. Yeah, we're so excited. So Danielle,

you are an author now. Your memoir, Token Black Girl is coming out in October. It'll be out by the time people hear this.

So we're recording in advance, but it will be available when this airs. And you are also a veteran

of the beauty and fashion industry. You were the style director for BET.com. And now you have

your own consulting agency. So it sounds like you have a lot of things going on.

I do. I have a lot of things going on. Will you tell our audience a little bit about yourself as a reader as

well as an author? Oh, sure. Well, I have always been a reader. I love books so much and I feel so lucky that I

wrote one. I can't even believe it because I never really like thought, I guess, that I had

anything meaningful to say.

And so I was like convinced that, you know, only people who have suffered a great deal

deserve to write a memoir.

And so I have, yeah, I'm a person who reads every single night before I go to sleep.

I take many books on vacation.

I spend a lot of time with books and I always have.

Like since I was a little girl, I think that is a very consistent part of my personality

that I just have always loved reading and interacting

with books. Well, you're in the right place and I mean, same. So I'm really excited to talk to you

about these great books that you've picked as well as your book. Before we dive into that, let's take a quick sponsor, a break.

This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth. This year, I'm getting really intentional about resetting

my home, especially my evening routine, because that five to nine window is the part of the day

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