Welcome to Litsy!

A thoroughly enjoyable book. It‘s satire that works. You never lose the connection to real life while exploring absurdities galore. There‘s characters to root for and against. In many bizarre ways wa Thiong‘o explores the experience of African countries in dealing with post-colonialism. If you‘re ready for a chunky read that is both fun and poignant then these is the book to pick up.

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@cleoh If you‘ve not been tagged already would you like to post a cover you love each day for seven days with no explanation?

Started this wild book this weekend

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Saturday morning coffee #currentread #wizardofthecrow

My January stats!

It only took me 20 days to get through this huge novel but boy was it worth it! What an amazing, fantastical, political and religious commentary!

You know you‘re reading a chunkster when you‘ve been reading your book very often for a week and you‘re not even halfway

He really just can‘t help but beg for attention 🐱 #catsoflitsy

Looks like Jojen isn‘t going to allow me to read tonight 😂 #catsoflitsy

What a table of contents

#AprilBookShowers #shelfie This is just one of my shelves ?. The toy cars are my nephew's, who is now 17 and living in Sydney. So many of his toys are still here. He said he feels about cars how I feel about books, and that he will be "hurt" if I got rid of his cars to make way for MORE books ("You haven't even read all of your books!"). When he was younger he displayed them on the shelves to be near the books, lol. And here they have remained.

🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ This book was amazing. It is very dense and it took me a month to read it but it was worth it. It's a satire of African politics but some of the themes are relevant to current events. Like how a ruler tries to control how he is portrayed in the media or how he surrounds himself with sycophants to bolster his fragile ego. But amongst all of the corruption there is hope and people who want change and are willing to fight for it.

#toptentuesday Underrated books read in the last couple of years -- I went with stuff with under 2,000 ratings on Goodreads. https://goo.gl/xpTKsO

The most fun you'll have reading about a (fictional) African dictatorship. This is a big, rowdy book; a funny take on a serious issue; most importantly, it's just a really great story. --Caitlin