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I love Adichie & haven‘t read one of her books in awhile. These short stories aren‘t the happiest, but they‘re well-written & able to make you feel for characters within a few pages.

A great collection of immersive short stories with narrators that I can empathize with. ❤️

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Beautiful writing. I love when short stories can pull you in and make you feel emotionally that you read a full novel. Not everyone is able to make large impacts with just a few words.

Love short stories, and she‘s a great writer. Cool to hear first person own voices from an area of the world I know to little about

I‘m not really a short story person, but I loved this collection of short stories by one of my favorite authors.

A great collection of short stories. This is a library book I need to return but I feel like I should buy my own copy. There are some stories here that I know I will want to pick up and read again.

My problem with short stories is always that I don't take enough time to let them sink in. I usually go straight on to the next one and forget about them soon.
This time too, I kept on reading, but I weren‘t able to forget about the ones I‘d finished. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wouldn‘t let me. She‘s is so good 💕. I think they‘ll linger in the back of my mind forever.

#pop21 #ABookFoundOnABlackLivesMatterReadingList

#WeeklyForecast 13/21

Because I loved Americanah and because @AshleyHoss820 recommended it I am very much looking forward to the tagged book. First I have to finish Basti though, a tough read on Pakistan in its early days for #ReadingAsia2021.
For Easter break I am looking for some good thrillers (which I am in lack of). I hope Little White Lies will do the trick.

#3books #Iloved

@LapReader @Chelleo #Blitsyswap so worth the wait. I love everything! Not pictured: chocolate b/c I ate it.

As usual, Adichie knocked me out. She has such a gift and it is in full force in this collection of short stories. Relationships between men and women, cultural divides, the misconception of the American Dream...all this and then some covered in this phenomenal, insightful work. I cannot recommend Adichie‘s work enough, I really can‘t. This was the last book in my Non-Western Civ Lit class. 😊📚

These stories are very good..always insightful & moving, some haunting. The narratives are intimate, the characters intriguing. A couple of them ended too abruptly for my liking but still hold profound messages. I have many favourites. The stories are set in Nigeria and US, all exploring the human condition & how it affects relationships amidst the cultural, social, economic and political environment. Highly recommend.

#AuthorAMonth

From the story “A Private Experience”.
#currentlyreading

From the story ‘Tomorrow is Too Far‘

From the story ‘Cell One‘

Absolutely phenomenal short story collection! My fave thing by this writer so far, obviously I hear people talk about her amazing novels but I have no idea how she isn‘t talked about as one of the best short story writers around at the minute. So thoughtful and different individually, but as a whole they gave an amazing portrait of diaspora, identity and changing culture.

My book club‘s besr pick yet - jealous that I didn‘t choose it 😢

This is the next book for my irl book club! Excited to make a start on it! I‘ve loved everything else I‘ve read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A collection of short stories by the author of “Americanah,” “Purple Hibiscus” and “Half of a Yellow Sun.” I don‘t even usually like or read short stories, but I‘ve been so impressed by Adichie‘s work that I didn‘t hesitate to pick up this collection. And then I couldn‘t put it down.

So good. Adichie has incredible talent and skill and is doing a great thing to get African stories out into the world.
These short stories are excellent and each give you powerful insights.

I cannot express how much I love Adichie

This collection of short stories from 2009, compellingly told and bursting with beautiful details, reminded me over and over why I loved Adichie‘s Americanah (2013) so much!

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@MuddyPuddle thank you for making this book your swap selection. I‘ve enjoyed reading each story through a new lens & with plenty of curiosity. 👍

Saturday morning is for reading in bed. Enjoying the swap selection for the month .❤️🙌

#ShortStories @thereadingwomen #ReadingWomenMonth

My totally eclectic thrift book haul!

I picked up these 2 beauties from No Dearth of Books in Gig Harbor, WA. I love the store name and found their collection to be small but quite good. #usedbookstores

#nowreading The Thing Around Your Neck by #Chimamanda. #africanwriters #africanlit #favouriteauthor

Schools out for summer! Just finished this after I missed both my train and bus on the way home from work. Looking forward to a meal cooked by my partner Stew & a glass, no let's be honest, a bottle of champagne & getting into my holiday reading. My step children are having a white Christmas in Sweden this year. Loved reading about an Africa I don't know much about. The bookmark was a Chrissy gift from my boss along with some tea. Lucky me!

Enjoyed this collection of stories. Real and engaging.

Support your neighborhood bookstore! I️ love the walk to @BookSoup #indiebookstore #bookmarks #noteworthynovember

Starting off November! #tbr #novinbooks17 @bookisglee #noteworthynovember @Jess7 #emojinov @RealLifeReading

If Mrs Dalloway was Melania Trump...
"Melania decided she would order the flowers herself. Donald was too busy now to call Alessandra's as usual and ask for 'something amazing.'"
An entertaining short story written by Adichie for the New York Times Book Review, available in the Overdrive #audiobook collection & narrated by January LaVoy. (It's not in the short story collection that I tagged.)

So, I Just finished my First Chimamanda and I'm Just speechless... It is not my favorite genre or kind of writing, but the book is beautiful and I am sure some of the stories will live within me for the rest of my life...
Ps: this is the brazilian edition of The thing around your neck

That's my lunch today: brazilian edition of The thing around your neck and a Ice cream cone without Ice cream but with brigadeiro (a kind of brazilian fudge) and praline...

I went to the movies and there was a bookshop in the way, obviously, my hand sliped again 🤦

This is the third book I've read by Adichie, and my favorite so far. The characters in the stories are fascinating individuals and no two stories are the same. The author sets the stories in both the city and the suburbs, and in the liminal places where people are often invisible. Like the best short story collections, I wanted more time with each set of characters, but was also satisfied with the fragments I was fed.

#bookbingonw2017

My July TBR. Maybe I'll stick to it this time? 🤓 #tbrtuesday

Wonderful collection of short stories. The title story is an interesting and thoughtful piece written in second person narration. This beautiful edition is by 4th Estate. 5/5 ⭐️ #thethingaroundyourneck #fivestarread #shortstorycollection #shortstories

I loved it. These stories were beautiful, well written and have an overlaying theme of how strong and fragile woman can be at the same time.

We've read some incredible female voices this month, but there's always more #women_writers to discover. On the #TheReadingWomen blog, we're recommending even MORE short story collections from our TBRs. Ahh! So many books! Guess it's time to get reading. 📚🤓
https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/blog/2017/4/8/wrap-up-short-stories
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#ShortStories #women_writers #feminism #womensliterature #amwriting #WeNeedDiverseBooks

Just about to start this little beauty. Happy days :-)

I had to put most of my books in storage so all the ones in my house are on my tbr. Here are all the ones that I could find that had to do with #africa, which is one of my favorite settings in a book/novel! #lyricalapril

Some of my #Africa books that are lying around. #lyricalapril

Was about to read but someone is keep meowing, asking her human to pet and hug.

#overlyattachedcat #1001reasonswhyhommancanthavepeace