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Gave this one a shot in the overnight hours when I couldn‘t sleep 🎧📖 Sadly, I couldn‘t get into it & had to bail🙁
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Gave this one a shot in the overnight hours when I couldn‘t sleep 🎧📖 Sadly, I couldn‘t get into it & had to bail🙁
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!)
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. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
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
Reading about the Congo whilst in -23 temps in Finland is peculiar!
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.
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.
#foodandlit 2024 January | Ghana
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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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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