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  • What I Read In November

    I want to pat myself on the back and say, ‘you did it, you read more than one book’. And that is correct-ish, if you include the two comics. But I can assure you December would be better because as I write this, I’m on my second book. So what did I read in November?…

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  • Book Review: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty

    I’m now the kind of person that reads one book each month; what has become of me? While we’re still figuring out the answer to that, in October, I read You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty, my third book by Akwaeke Emezi. The first being The Death of Vivek Oji (5/5), absolutely…

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  • How Women Rise - A Book Review

    It’s been so long since I wrote a book review and why this is not particularly one of the books that’d make it to a review, I need to restart somewhere. In September I accidentally read, ‘How Women Rise’. I say accidentally because I thought I had borrowed ‘Ask For It’, Book 2 of ‘Women…

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  • On Emotional Abuse: Book Review

    This year I’ve read two books on abusive relationships that I quite liked; or rather what I liked about them was that they focused on a subset of abuse that is easily downplayed- psychological abuse. It doesn’t come as a surprise how psychological (emotional) abuse is overlooked because we as humans love evidence, proof, and…

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  • Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

    No matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.” TL;DR: Girl makes Faustian bargain with darkness, Girl becomes immortal and forgotten. Girl sleeps with darkness, Girl meets boy. Boy remembers her. Girls falls in love with boy. Darkness sneers. 4/5, would recommend. SYNOPSIS: Picture this. 18th century France. 23-year…

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  • The Romance Marathon I Should Have Done in February.

    I went on a Romarathon in May because I realised I rarely ever read purely romance novel and I was feeling empty, so I did what any logical person would do. Bought a bunch of romance novels with cartoonish covers and segmented a part of my shelf to them. Whether I felt better at the…

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  • Perverse evil spirits, women that saved your crusty asses and failed matchmakers – MY FEBRUARY READS

    “Chereoge, where is your January Wrap-Up?” It is my opinion that January is a trial run month, that’s why you’re legally and socially allowed to leave your Christmas decorations up till 31st but the moment February starts, take it down! I don’t think I need to explain myself more than that. Since it’s Valentine’s Month…

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  • Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism- A Book Review.

    “Whether we like it or not, capitalism commodifies almost every aspect of our private lives..,” For October, I decided to dive into the world of nonfiction and my first read was about ……drumroll…. socialism. Prior to reading this, I only knew the dictionary meaning of the -isms without really knowing what each of them entailed so…

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