My initial idea for props for this photo was to attempt to use some designer stuff I have but then it occurred to me that with #CrazyRichAsians designer and designer aren’t quite on the same level so I respected myself. #CrazyRichAsians is your typical love story – Boy meets girl, girl has no clue boy…
Tag: Book Review
Sympathy is more complicated then we think: A Review of THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY: A Family History, by Amara Nicole Okolo.
Alithnayn Abdulkareem has written this review on Amara Nicole Okolo’s spectacular memoir story – THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY; A FAMILY HISTORY, published in August by Catapult. You can read here if you haven’t or just for a refresher to understand it better. The story is so heavy and so dense a second read has had me…
BOOKREVIEW LONGTHROAT MEMOIRS – Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
Author: Yemisi Aribisala Genre: Non Fiction (Collection of Essays/Memoirs) Publisher and Year of Publication: Casava republic, 2016 Price: £12.99 or #5500 Number of Pages: 357
BOOK REVIEW; NERVOUS CONDITIONS
Author – Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwean) Publisher and Year Published – First published 1988 (The Women’s Press UK), later 2004 by (Ayebia Clarke Publishing) Genre – Fiction Price – Price; £8.99 Number of Pages – 211 Nervous Conditions is the coming of age story of Tambu, told many years later by her as she remembers…
Tuawa Adenekan Reviews Reedeming Love
Hollaaaaaa, Nope I didn’t forget December book review. This month, I asked my fellow book lover Tuawa to review Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love and she obliged. I decided I wanted it for this month just because I think that christmas and the end of the year is a good time to reflect on the undying…
OCTOBER BOOK REVIEW; DISGRACE.
Author; J.M Coetzee. (South African / Australian) Genre; Fiction Publisher/Year of 1st Publication: 1st published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg 1999 and Penguin Books 2000 (this edition) Number of Pages; 220 Price; $16.00 Other Titles; Dusklands, In the Heart of the country, Boyhood, Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man. Prizes won; Man Booker prize…
SEPTEMBER BOOK REVIEW; ME BEFORE YOU.
Author; Jojo Moyes (British) Genre; Fiction Publisher/Year of 1st Publication: The Penguin Group Number of Pages; 498 Price; £7.99 Other Titles; After You, The One plus One, The Horse Dancer, Silver Bay.
AUGUST BOOK REVIEW; FURIOUSLY HAPPY- A funny book about horrible things.
Author; Jenny Lawson Genre; Non fiction Publisher/Year of 1st Publication: Flatiron Books. 2015 Number of Pages; 329 (my hardcover copy) Price; $26.99 Other Titles; Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
JULY BOOK REVIEW; THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
Author; John Green (American) Genre; Realistic Fiction.Young Adult fiction Publisher/Year of 1st Publication: Dutton Books. Jan. 10 2012 Number of Pages; 316 (my hardcover copy) Price; £12.99 Other Titles; Paper Town, Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Kathrines
JUNE BOOK REVIEW; ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
Author; Anthony Doerr (American) Genre; Historical Fiction Publisher/Year of 1st Publication: Scribner. May 6th 2014 Number of Pages; 531 (my paperback copy) Prizes won; The Pulitzer prize for fiction 2015 and Andrew Carnegie medal for excellence in Fiction (2015) Price; £8.99 Other Titles; The shell collector, Four Seasons in Rome. This book has…
MAY BOOK REVIEW; THE FISHERMEN
Author; Chigozie Obioma (Nigerian) Genre; Fiction Publisher/Year of Publication; Little Brown and Company, April 2015 Number of Pages; 295 (hard copy) Price; $26.00 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
APRIL BOOK REVIEW; THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING.
Karanja was a guest writer on the blog last week and gracious enough to send in an extra piece (review) to fill in for me today, being book review day. He reviews the autobiography of Joan Didion. Thanks for doing this Karanja. You can read his beautiful post from last week here.
