An important book in South African literature. It‘s an easy and entertaining read. Hard to believe it‘s from the 40s - before apartheid and still so accurate 🤷🏼
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An important book in South African literature. It‘s an easy and entertaining read. Hard to believe it‘s from the 40s - before apartheid and still so accurate 🤷🏼
#weekendreads Thank you for the tag @JenReadsAlot
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Lawrence Anthony details his struggle to save the last northern white rhinos.
Wonderfully written, albeit a hard read especially because rhinos are my favorite animal.
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Another week of books I‘ve never heard of, books on my TBR, and books by authors I‘ve read but not that book. Here are the 3/100 that I‘ve read. 😮
1. Things Fall Apart (very sad)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird ❤️
3. The Leopard (read in school but I couldn‘t tell you one thing about it) #TLT
Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list6
pick#JuneSpecials Day 2: This book features the village of Tos, in the remote hills of the Cameroons. In the introduction of the author, she described it as “isolated, with no paved roads closer to it than a full eight hours away. None but the most adventurous visitor would dare risk the steep and bumpy, rocky clay paths leading to the thatch-roofed village that clings to the side of an almost extinct volcano.” My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-Ut
Preparing for a 1-2 week long sick leave. Also have 5 books from NetGalley. Do you think this is enough? 🫣
As I am a white person educated in white schools, it should come as no surprise that I‘ve never heard of Diop until this morning. Was glad to find some of his works at the library.
1: During the last few months I discovered Alexander McCall Smith. I‘ve finished the delightful #1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency series, with the inimitable Mma Ramotswe!
2: tagged
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
pickThis is #Rwanda President Paul Kagame‘s story through 2008 (he‘s still president today). A young Tutsi refugee from the violence by the Hutus even back in the 1950s, he fought in Uganda, secretly training to become a rebel soldier to try to return to Rwanda. As he built a secret army, the genocide in 1994 occurred. He was able to dismantle the Hutu government and would eventually be elected president. He assembled a Hutu/Tutsi government, and ⬇️
