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This memoir didn't turn out as I expected. I set out to read a book that would 'educate' me on how someone who never stepped foot in a classroom, taught herself algebra and was able to pass the ACT (though after two attempts) and eventually end up with a P.hd from Harvard University. It turned … Continue reading Book Review: Educated by Tara Westover
Wow! I started this book and couldn't put it down until I was done. 'When Trouble Sleeps' is the sequel to 'Easy Motion Tourist' which I had read sometime in 2017. This book continues with Amaka's determination to find Malik who runs a secret sex club outside Lagos and hopefully bring him to book as … Continue reading Book Review: When Trouble Sleeps by Leye Adenle
"Hajiya Binta Zabairu was finally born at fifty-five when a dark-lipped rogue with short, spiky hair, like a field miniscule anthills, scaled her fence and landed, boots and all, in the puddle that was her heart". Set in northern Nigeria, this story is suppose to be about Hajiya Binta and her forbidden affair with 'Reza', … Continue reading Book Review: Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
My third Kerry Fisher book and I can't get enough of her. This story was captivating from the first page......... "Six weeks. That's all I had with you. Forty-two days. Time we throw away carelessly, wishing the days away, to Christmas, to a holiday, to the end of, to the beginning of, to when we … Continue reading Book Review: The Secret Child by Kerry Fisher
Kerry Fisher is the new author I have been looking for...…. After reading 'The Silent Wife" a few months ago, I have plunged into buying her books with reckless abandon and with no regrets. Maia's story is the story of a modern day Cinderella but with laughs on almost every page. Her life with her … Continue reading Book Review: The Not So Perfect Mother by Kerry Fisher
My Sister The serial Killer was a quick, fun, read packed with dark humor. A story about two sisters raised by the same parents who suffered abuse from their father but turned out to have personalities as different as the way they looked. Ayoola, the beautiful younger sister who turned the heads of every man … Continue reading Book Review: My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Published: 2018 by University Press Plc Pages: 74 Genre: fiction Purchase @ http://www.fb.me/Mannequin.novel Publisher's Blurb: Mannequin is situated in the modern day oil-rich city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where a small percentage of the population live in affluence. The story tells of the subtle destruction of the lives of promising young people saddled with heavy … Continue reading Book Review: Mannequin by Wakeni Mac’Odo-McCarthy
Published: February 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 288 Genre: Fiction Purchase on http://www.amazon.com Publisher's Blurb: Memory is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers … Continue reading Book Review: The Book Of Memory by Petina Gappah
Published: August 2018 Pages: 268 Genre: Christian Fiction Purchase on http://www.okadabooks.com; http://www.amazon.com Publisher's blurb: Sometimes first loves don't turn out the way you plan them to. . .Beautiful, strong and confident, Peju Adams has always been a woman who knows what she wants. When she finally reunites with her teen love, Abdul Layeni, it’s a … Continue reading Book Review: Once Upon a First Love by Tope Omotosho
nPublished: June, 2017 by Ballentine Books Pages: 342 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Purchase on http://www.amazon.com Publisher's blurb: For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings … Continue reading Book Review: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate