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Continue reading →: April 2022’s Reading ListThe April Reading List only has two books. ^_^That’s about how many I could get in this April. They were both intense books. I now think I probably needed the month to read both of them. My excuse is very valid. ^_^ Here is my list for April 2022 :…
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Continue reading →: A Snippet of Fiction – The Price of AmberHappy May! I’m so excited to share snippets of the story Ram and Amber, which now has a tentative name ‘The Price of Amber’. Still not in love with the title, in any case, I’m excited to have a 10K word count on this project. There is nothing like getting…
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Continue reading →: A Thousand Splendid SunsA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years – from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding – that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country…
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Continue reading →: Homegoing – ReviewHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons,…
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Continue reading →: March 2022’s Reading ListBelonging This book is available from Furaha Publishers in Kigali, Rwanda. It is about: Keza, who is in search of a place she can truly call hers. She carries on her shoulders a difficult past faced by her ancestors: her parents, grandparents, and relatives in her Tutsi tribe. Because of…
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Continue reading →: A Sky Beyond the Storm – ReviewPicking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off… A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning. At his…
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Continue reading →: A Reaper at the Gates – Review
A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister’s life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. Yet danger lurks on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless…
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Continue reading →: Slay – Book ReviewSlay by Brittney Morris By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is a high school student and one of the only black kids at Jefferson Academy. By night, she joins hundreds of thousands of black gamers who duel worldwide in the secret online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is…
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Continue reading →: Book Wishlist for the Blog’s Reading ListNairobi is super hot right now, and 2 pm is almost like mandatory naptime. It’s too hot to be outside, it’s better to be inside reading or checking out your FYP on TikTok (careful with this vortex though, you might not get any work done). It’s almost the end of…
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Continue reading →: A Torch Against the Night – ReviewA Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir In A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT, Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart…
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