Click for excerpts at Google Books Hmmm. Where do I begin? I read this book over the holidays. It was sitting on my shelf and I just grabbed it thinking this should be a nice read on the plane. Now, I wonder how it made it onto my shelf. It came via PaperBackSwap for sure […]
Little Bee: A Novel by Chris Cleave
Barnes & Noble link I requested this book from PaperBackSwap at the suggestion of a friend who had begun to read it this summer. Nothing else. I’m one of those who likes to read the back of a book to prepare myself for what is in store or to decide if a book is worth […]
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Amazon link This book grabbed my emotions so deeply that I could not stop thinking about it when I was doing other things. It was recommended to me by a Haitian-American friend who had studied it as part of her English/French PhD studies. It was read by the African Women’s Book Club (at her recommendation) […]
Powder Necklace: A Novel by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
This is a coming of age story that the African Women’s Book Club read a couple months ago. It would probably make a good young-adult fiction. The author is a friend of one of the members and we invited her for a book reading of this, her first novel. The book reading was held at […]
Rundown of books of yesteryear
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie This was the first book I read in my mission to become a book-reader again. The African Women’s Book Club had read it earlier in the year and I had participated in its discussion blindly. Shhhh, don’t tell. I picked it up from my local library […]
Literary Adventures II
About a year ago I vowed to pick up reading books for leisure again. I have a library card and have actually checked out a few books. I registered for PaperBack Swap, an online community where one can trade books for the price of postage. I now have about 30 exciting books to be read […]
Literary Adventures
During my interview for admission to Stanford University School of Medicine many moons ago, my interviewer asked me to discuss the last book I had read. See, I had listed “reading” as a hobby on my CV and actually continue to do so. Unfortunately, although I had just read a book in the months prior […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.