Aminatta Forna
The Halloween Creatures Book Tag
Rules: Answer all prompts. Answer honestly. Tag 1-13 people. Link back to this post. ( For me it was SnoopyDoo!) Remember to credit the creator. (Anthony @ Keep Reading Forward)< Have fun! Witch A Magical Character or Book Terry Pratchett’s witches, particularly Granny Weatherwax. And DEATH (preferably in his Hogfather incarnation). No contest. […]
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2019: The Books I’ve Been Most Thankful For
24 Festive Tasks: Door 11 – Thanksgiving: Task 2 Tell us: Of the books that you read this year, which are you most thankful for, OR was there one that turned out to be full of “stuffing”? Alternatively, which (one) book that you read anytime at all changed your life for the better?”) With another […]
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BL-opoly: Dice Roll #9 … Parts a, b, c and d!
U P D A T E ____________________________________ Today is June 9 was another roll day for me, and it turnsed out as a result I’ll probably be I was set, reading-wise, for quite some time! Let’s take this one step by step … Beginning on my just-finished square, #16, my first roll today is was […]
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Responding to Moonlight Reader’s “call for papers (= titles / authors)” — there are quite a number of excellent lists out there already; anyway, here’s my contribution … or a first draft, at least. Links go to my reviews (or status updates / summary blog posts / author pages) to the extent I’ve posted any. […]
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Aminatta Forna: The Memory of Love
On Trauma and Healing (of Sorts) Sierra Leone gained independence from British colonial rule in 1961, but, like so many other African countries, after enjoying a few brief initial years of peace and democracy, it was torn apart by dictatorial rule, military regimes, civil war and corruption in the decades that followed. As a […]
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BL-opoly: Dice Roll #9 … Parts a, b, c and d!
Today is another roll day for me, and it turns out as a result I’ll probably be set, reading-wise, for quite some time! Let’s take this one step by step … Beginning on my just-finished square, #16, my first roll today is a double, which puts me on square 23: The Cape-to-Cairo Railway — read […]
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