![]() ![]() ![]() Who is Binyavanga Wainaina, you ask? It is now a cliché to say that in 2005 Wainaina wrote the half tongue-in-cheek, angry essay How to Write about Africa – a seminal piece that confronted the complicated relationship between the West and what is or what should be African literature. Indeed there are several issues in this book that would make for robust all-night drunken debates. Wainaina pulls no punches, he lays it all out there, self-absorbed warts and all. This memoir is a delightful and important coming of age book that describes Wainaina’s world (and our world) with riotous clarity and shimmering brilliance. Let me just say that he has written the memoir that many writers are too chicken to write. ![]() One is reminded repeatedly that there’s no fine line between brilliance and lunacy Wainaina is a brilliant lunatic. Wainaina entertains and educates with his brilliance and lunacy as displayed in the many exhilarating chapters of this unusual memoir. Scratch “African,” every thinker should read this enigmatic book by one of the most enigmatic thinkers I have never met. Graywolf Press 272 pagesĮvery African thinker should find a copy of Binyavanga Wainaina’s new book, One Day I Will Write about This Place and read it carefully from front to back. ![]() Book Review: One Day I Will Write About This Place. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The feeling Rick and Morty must have had when they realized there was no way out and they had been intellectually out matched is how I felt upon finishing this amazing book, The Invention of Nature by profound author Andrea Wulf. The deception is layered and everything the protagonists see, hear and feel is controlled by a higher power. As they run the camera zooms out and we see that our heroes are actually still in a now larger virtual world, designed in a way that makes them only think they have escaped into the real world. Have you seen that episode of Rick and Morty where our duo are trapped in an alien virtual reality that is so good that they can’t tell they are in the real world or the virtual one? Rick figures it out and finally they make a daring escape from the VR, they remove the interface helmets and start to run away from the evil alien facility. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor Harden built an unhackable system, and in front of everyone, it's hacked. For my next audio, KING OF CODE, Ill be making sure that the Twitter posts sound. English 329 pages 22 cm From New York Times Bestselling author, CD Reiss, comes an all new, sexy tale of secrets, intrigue, betrayal, and a love worth crossing a continent for. My only complaint is it seemed to end abruptly. AudioFile Magazine chats with author CD Reiss about her award-winning. I find myself longing and wishing for more chapters from the male perspective and this book had it 100%! It is refreshing hearing the male side of facing feelings and fears as he falls in love!Īnd lastly, the suspense and mystery threaded throughout was perfectly intertwined with the love story… which provided some hot and steamy scenes for sure!! Great story line! Loved the tech/hacking aspect! Second, the fact that the whole story was from the male perspective was so refreshing! I wish more authors did this! I often find myself annoyed with the female POV being the majority of the story line-often droning on with so much in their head, back and forth drama. ![]() LOVED this book! I could not “put it down” (turn it off).įirst, Christen Fox… as always a stellar performance and perfect for this story! I could listen to him single narrate almost anything! He is so talented! ![]() ![]() ![]() A bold and epic novel of a rarely visited point in history, it is a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable. ![]() The New York Times Book Review called him simply "a genius." Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian's claim that "each of his books seems entirely different from that which preceded it." The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a stunning departure for this brilliant, restless, and wildly ambitious author, a giant leap forward by even his own high standards. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruining Dahlia is a full-length reverse harem novel in the dark and twisted Mafia Wars world. It’s me against them, and only time will tell If I'll be the winner or be destroyed in these cruel and merciless Mafia Wars. ![]() But what disturbs me most is that I just might like it. They play a game for keeps, a game where the only rule is that there are no rules. ![]() The thing they don't realize is that I'm more than what I seem.Ī dahlia has always bloomed best in the light, and even though everything about this place and these men is shrouded in darkness, I’m determined to thrive…to win. Where Lucian, Raphael, and Gabriel Rossi now think they own me. New York City, the powerful head of the Cosa Nostra, is my new home. We aren't Butchers in name only, and surely the Rossi family can’t be as bad as the devil that’s been destroying me since I was eight years old. I should know all about how to survive monsters, though I come from a family of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Why We Took the Car : * "" action- and emotion-packed story of surprise summer adventure. But will they ever be called boring again? Not a chance. Will they meet crazy people and get into serious trouble? Definitely. Will they get hopelessly lost in the middle of nowhere? Probably. Forget the popular kids: Together, Mike and Tschick are heading out on a road trip. Turns out he wasn't invited to Tatiana's party either, and he's ready to do something about it. But one day Tschick shows up at Mike's house out of the blue. He always looks like he's just been in a fight, his clothes are tragic, and he never talks to anyone. Andre Tschichatschow, aka Tschick (not even the teachers can pronounce his name), is new in school, and a whole different kind of unpopular. And he's never invited to parties - including the gorgeous Tatiana's party of the year. (Okay, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. Mike Klingenberg doesn't get why people think he's boring. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, it wends its way through time, from Windsor's childhood to her realization that she was gay to her heartbreaker days in underground women's clubs to her career at IBM to her marriage(s) and beyond, with warmth and charming informality. ![]() There was a lot of life in the lead-up.Ī Wild and Precious Life, which takes its name from a widely beloved line in "The Summer Day" by the late lesbian poet Mary Oliver, is in no rush to get you to the steps of the Supreme Court. It was that victory that propelled Windsor into the national spotlight (and made her runner-up to Pope Francis for Time's 2013 Person of the Year), but it was one won when she was 84. Windsor, overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and helped pave the way for marriage equality. Edie Windsor's posthumously published memoir, written in collaboration with editor and sometimes ghostwriter Joshua Lyon, charts the rich and delightfully rambly history of the Jewish lesbian activist whose 2013 Supreme Court case, United States v. As an avowed fan of the Old LGBTQ People Telling You About Their Lives literary genre, I have to confess that I came to A Wild and Precious Life biased in its favor. ![]() ![]() Siddons offered argument after argument about why she couldn't do the book," The Atlanta Journal and Constitution wrote in 1988, "she mentioned that a woman friend of hers had just died. She had long admired its vigor but felt that its relentless growth had gone too far. ![]() She was urged by her friend, writer Pat Conroy, to write a major novel that would reflect her ambivalence about Atlanta, her adopted home. Her breakthrough, "Peachtree Road" (1988), was a generational saga about Atlanta's evolution since World War II told through the stories of two cousins. Siddons had been an advertising copywriter and a magazine writer when she started writing novels in the 1970s. Her stepson David Siddons said the cause was lung cancer. Anne Rivers Siddons, whose popular novels, set largely in the South, took female characters on emotional journeys that touched on the region's racial and social attitudes, died on Wednesday at her home in Charleston, South Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() He published five volumes of poetry: 38 Poems (London: Fortune Press, 1940), then by Faber & Faber Invitation and Warning 1942 The Black Seasons 1945 The Haunted Garden 1947 and The Exiles 1952. Their son, Richard Treece, became a musician with Help Yourself and other rock bands. ![]() In 1939 he married Mary Woodman and settled in Lincolnshire as a teacher at Barton-upon-Humber Grammar School. After graduating from the University of Birmingham in 1933, he went into teaching with his first placement being at Tynemouth School. ![]() Treece was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and educated at the town's grammar school. He wrote a range of works but is mostly remembered as a writer of children's historical novels. Henry Treece (22 December 1911 – 10 June 1966) was a British poet and writer who also worked as a teacher and editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. It's funny, touching and written in a highly appealing voice - JOANNE HARRIS The Humans is tremendous a kind of Curious Incident meets The Man Who Fell to Earth. very human and touching indeed - PATRICK NESS Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy * * The Times * *Įxcellent. It's funny, clever and quite, quite lovely - Sam Baker * * Sunday Times * *Ī wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. ![]() Haig's unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter. One of the best books I've read in a very long time - S J WATSON Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot * * Guardian * *Ī brilliant exploration of what it is to love, and to be human, The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious, weird, and utterly wonderful. ![]() |