Colson Whitehead “The Underground Railroad” – review
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“We should all be feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – book review
Adichie’s voice is warm and friendly and the situations she talks about are all too familiar to most women around the world. Continue reading “We should all be feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – book review
Stacking the Shelves Saturday
Stacking The Shelves is a book tag hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality, which is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, be it physical or virtual. This week I made use of the book vouchers that I got for my birthday. We are celebrating the year of Joseph Conrad this year, as it’s his 160th birthday. In order to celebrate, … Continue reading Stacking the Shelves Saturday
Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” – Book Review
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is definitely not a work of history. If you want a short outline of events that leads up to now, you are in the wrong place. Yuval Noah Harari is much more interested in the history of ideas that made humans what they are. That said, his narratives, though they may be based on fact ( I use the … Continue reading Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” – Book Review
Hay Festival Conversations – Book Review
Hay Festival Conversations: Thirty Conversations for Thirty Year is a lovely anthology of interviews done with authors speaking at the Hay-On-Wye Literary Festival. Continue reading Hay Festival Conversations – Book Review
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – review
George R.R. Martin’s book “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” was a welcome surprise. Continue reading A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – review
Hidden Figures- the book and the film
Hidden Figures is a story of three black women’s lives in 1960s America. Except that these particular women are working as mathematicians for NASA and are responsible for the calculations which will ultimately lead to men landing on the moon. Continue reading Hidden Figures- the book and the film
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