Last year I made a list of 13 books I wanted to read in 2023 – then proceeded to read only two from said list: one which was a poetry collection whose contents I barely remember by Emezi and a memoir by Soyinka which I fully remember but DNF-ed. Not only did I fail to […]
There’s something about Taylor Jenkins Reid and how she writes that makes you want to just continue saying “one more page.” I felt it first when I read the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – arguably the best book I read in 2021. Two years later I picked up a second book by Reid and
Books that have stayed with me long after I put them down.
Aké: The Years of Childhood” gives us the story of Soyinka’s boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced
Light(ish) books to keep you company during the month of love