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DieAReader
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith
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Bailedbailed

#Wardens2024 #ReadAway2024 #MarvellousMarch #BookSpinBingo #ReadMyRoom

Gave this one a shot in the overnight hours when I couldn‘t sleep 🎧📖 Sadly, I couldn‘t get into it & had to bail🙁

TheAromaofBooks I tired to read this one several years ago and couldn't get into it. 2d
DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks 🤷🏻‍♀️Bound to happen sometimes, I guess🙄🤣🤫 2d
Read4life Same here. Just not for me. #hailthebail 2d
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dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 2d
DieAReader @dabbe 😏I seem to have a lot of #HailTheBail moments this months🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ 2d
dabbe @DieAReader Better to find out quickly and move on to some good ones, right? 🤩 2d
DieAReader @dabbe ❤️‍🔥🤓Very true! 1d
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Hooked_on_books
The Darling | Russell Banks
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Pickpick

This one starts by exploring Hannah‘s life on her farm in upstate NY, in a sort of female enclave, then moves back to her years in Liberia as a younger person as the country moves steadily toward war. She‘s a complex character, which I really liked, and it was interesting watching a white American navigate an African country with all the privilege she retains. (My copy half-eaten by my dearly departed Gunther, but still readable!)

BarbaraBB ❤️ 7d
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fictionaddictbooks
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At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population.

Chinua Achebe, There Was A Country

#memoir #Nigeria #war #history

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fictionaddictbooks
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I've wanted to read There Was A Country for the longest of times but I'm really glad to be reading it now. From what I've read so far it looks like not much has changed since the last 60 years particularly with respect to our politics. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

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Ruthiella
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Two novellas and three short stories, each set in a different African country; all are devastating and heartbreaking. 💔 Most feature children. This is fiction, but we know it is rooted in truth: exploitation, religious violence, ethnic conflict, poverty, despair.

#The52BookClub24 Sticker on cover (Oprah)
#Pop24 Title complete sentence
#TBRtarot (January) YOU in title
#Roll100 February

rockpools That sounds like (!) a very hard read 💔 (edited) 1mo
Ruthiella @rockpools It was. 💔 1mo
Librarybelle It sounds like a hard read but a necessary read. I‘ve not read it, but you‘re probably right that the fiction is rooted in what is happening in reality. 1mo
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TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1mo
Ruthiella @Librarybelle I was kind of dreading reading it, in fact. 1mo
Ruthiella @TheAromaofBooks Thanks!😊 1mo
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Donna1980
The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver
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Reading about the Congo whilst in -23 temps in Finland is peculiar!

BarbaraBB Haha! Great view though 😍 1mo
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IndoorDame
Unbowed: A Memoir | Wangari Muta Maathai
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I especially loved all the quotes in this that hinted at the reasons behind Wangari‘s strength, determination and resilience.

I loved both the #auldlangspine books I read from @Chelsea.Poole ‘s list in January, and I‘ve started 2 more titles for February.

@monalyisha Thank you for organizing our lists and this giveaway! You did a killer job as usual! Please tell Moxie I‘d love a chance to win Lost and Found from your list.

monalyisha This reminds me of a discussion I just listened to between Maggie Smith & Katherine May! Hers is the only podcast I listen to. Linking to the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rJtjEsYYMuOy6NtMCFT37?si=ef1c4IDoQwG79k039LmwX... 2mo
monalyisha And thanks for participating in #AuldLangSpine! Moxie is taking notes. 😉 2mo
IndoorDame @monalyisha what a great conversation! Thanks for the link! Maggie Smith‘s poetry hadn‘t been on my radar, but now I‘m really interested to pick up one of her books. 2mo
Chelsea.Poole Wangari is such an inspiration to me ♥️ I'm so glad you picked this title from the list! I loved your list as well. I've finished 4 (American Sunrise, Becoming Eve, Foster, and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy) in January and I hope to read at least 3 others this year! 2mo
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diovival
Aya | Marguerite Abouet, Clment Oubrerie
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Finished my first book of #40for40 a few days ago and I didn't realize this was part of a series until now. Like, there's more!!?!!!?! OMG. I have a thicc stack of library books waiting for my attention but I'll absolutely be returning to this story.

A graphic novel set in the Ivory Coast, 1978. Brimming with drama and mess. Maury Povich levels of mess. Loved it.

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bcncookbookclub
Zoe's Ghana Kitchen | Zoe Adjonyoh
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#foodandlit 2024 January | Ghana
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Just to let my contribution for the Foodandlit I found this post with an impressively selection of cookbooks with Ghanaian recipes and wrote by great chefs,
https://bakeaholicmama.com/ghanaian-cookbooks

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Texreader Very nice 2mo
Catsandbooks Fantastic! Thanks for sharing! ❤️🇬🇭 2mo
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Bookwormjillk
Zoe's Ghana Kitchen | Zoe Adjonyoh
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Pickpick

I loved reading through this book and ended up making two recipes: mango & pineapple salad and veggie jollof rice. I‘m a big fan! (Full disclosure I‘m somehow out of paprika so the spice mixture probably isn‘t right.) I made enough for lunch the rest of the week so it‘s a relief that it‘s tasty! #FoodAndLit #Ghana

Texreader The rice looks delicious!! 2mo
Catsandbooks That's awesome! 🇬🇭 2mo
TheBookHippie I loved this cookbook! I was sad to return it to the library! 2mo
Jari-chan This looks so yummy 😋 2mo
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