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Continue reading →: Deeply Grateful! – This Blog Featured on The Dailies
Yay!! The blog made it into the Daily Paper! It’s not every day I get a message with a picture of a blog review. I got one, and there was the blog name in the heading, and for a whole minute I thought it was a mistake! ^_^ After the…
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Continue reading →: Copy Paste vs Authenticity – Did You Know Intellectual Property is Gaining Importance in Kenya?This post is going to explore the threat of plagiarism faced by most writers, bloggers, content creators, and others. Since the world is online, and content has become a means to earn, copy-paste is more prevalent than authenticity. I recently received a message from a reader about content that might…
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Continue reading →: January 2023 UpdatesHappy New Year 2023! Book Reviews this January! I Made A Place For You is Damien White’s debut poetry book. This short compilation of poems speaks on spirituality, inner thoughts, and their power on our souls. Each poem is matched to a colorful, thought-evoking illustration done by Francesco Orazzini. It’s a…
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Continue reading →: I Made A Place For You – Book ReviewI Made A Place for You Written by Damian White / Illustrated by Francesco Orazzini Description: What if I told you the golden rule of speech is to speak when spoken through? This poetry collection explores a number of themes, ranging from spirituality and religion to perseverance and humility. The…
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Continue reading →: 2 Book Series that are Surprisingly InterestingThe worlds brought to life by a book series can be epically amazing (LOTR), hard to forget (HP), or a bit hard to imagine (Twilight). The one thing they all have in common is the adventures and characters that live through a number of books. I have always been a…
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Continue reading →: 5 Books Filled with That Good Authentic InspirationHere’s a list of five books that I’ve picked up this year that filled me up with that good authentic inspiration. Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist Description Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world…
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Continue reading →: Manga Mania!October is here! My favorite month. I’m also over excited because the creators of Bleach are blessing fans with a new final arc called BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War on October 10th, 2022. This blog post is going to take a minute to celebrate VIZ Media by taking a moment to…
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Continue reading →: Call Us What We Carry – A Beautiful Poetry CollectionCall Us What We Carry Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores…
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Continue reading →: The Gilded Ones – Book ReviewThe Gilded Ones by Namina Forna Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like…
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Continue reading →: August Adventures and a Fun Bookstore Named NuriaAugust 31st is here and it is a mix of warm and cold. Our little corner in Nairobi is feeling dry-ish. Still waiting for decent rain. The month was filled with a voting week and the strange limbo that follows result week. Kenyans, we remain resilient. The business continues, and…
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