An Unusual Grief by Yewande Omotoso
August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
At the heart of it, An Unusual Grief is about survival, not the neat, inspirational kind, but the messy kind that doesn’t always m...
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August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
At the heart of it, An Unusual Grief is about survival, not the neat, inspirational kind, but the messy kind that doesn’t always m...
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August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
In The Full Picture, we see how Carmichael presents Robyn’s grief as a language to learn, one that reshapes her identity. ...
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August 6, 2025 .
African Literature
A Kind of Madness is a collection of short stories that feature very relatable beings who wrestle with their identities, independe...
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August 4, 2025 .
Fantasy
One word for The Poppy War: UNHINGED! I’ve listened to/watched R.F. Kuang’s interviews, so I’m not entirely shoc...
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August 3, 2025 .
African Literature
While many books in the Nigerian literature space hint at the chaos in Lagos, the Lagos Flash Fiction series really highlights the...
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July 25, 2025 .
fiction
The Midnight Library doesn’t offer easy answers, but it does offer this: that life’s value isn’t being perfect but being present. ...
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July 25, 2025 .
Book review, books
If you don’t mind reading about math, logic, and personal beliefs about the world, then The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nig...
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July 21, 2025 .
Fantasy
Echoes and Empires does away with all the tropes, infusing the grim ruthlessness that is Morgan Rhodes’s unique signature: s...
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July 21, 2025 .
African Literature
Allow Me to Introduce Myself is a fresh story, one that has never been written (not to my knowledge) but is long overdue.
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July 21, 2025 .
Necessary Fiction is that one book you will never tire of rereading. It belongs in museums. It belongs in the halls of the sacred....
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July 21, 2025 .
Fantasy
Tad Williams has a complex writing style that’s relatively easy to get used to, making reading the rather lengthy The Dragon...
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July 18, 2025 .
Vampires
When V.E. Schwab said Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was about Toxic Lesbian Vampires, she meant it! Cause I got that and the...
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