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The writing and premise are solid but the execution bored me. It felt like it was going absolutely nowhere and I just didn‘t really care. I got half way through so I gave it a good go.

Billed as the story of two (or three) Ghanaian girls, really it‘s Belinda coming to terms with herself and how others might see her (I thought, anyway). Some of the physical description of life in a female body didn‘t quite ring true to me, and some sequences were hard to picture. But I appreciated the perspectives on race, sexuality, culture, etc, and found the characters interesting and engaging.

A girl gets taken from the house she works in and moved to London to befriend a teen. Her life grows and changes as she is exposed to the world.

I have a problem.

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This is a great link for bilingual books: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/17/top-10-bilingual-books?CMP=Share_i...

Up reading & sipping... Started this beauty yesterday... Enjoying the London scenery where the plot takes place... 📖☕️

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Can you tell it's been below freezing and I'm spending a lot of time indoors? This was a great novel exploring relationships, culture clashes, and life as a domestic servant. Another recommendation from The Atlantic.

#libraryhaul Which to dive into first??

Morning reading. 📚❤️📚

Plenty of potential concerning socio-economic classes, generational gaps and culture as seen through three different women from Guyana. However the book leaves very little in terms of direction and story. Plus, the authentic approach of linguistic dialect is bit confusing and screws up the pacing. I was left feeling there is more to the story.

So I finished this book and was compelled to perform my legendary 'What The Heck Was All That About' head shake. I was compelled to perform it for a Loooooong Time.

This book was saying something. I didn't know what it was and I'm not sure it knew either.

At times, I really disliked what I thought it might be saying. And I didn't particularly like how it said it either.

The main character was particularly unlikable (homophobic).

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I think I'm the only person using this hashtag ... oh well, I love a nice book and brew combo and I cannot lie.

Tagged book started slow but has grabbed me.

Featured brew has no connection with tagged book but is brewed locally so I felt obliged to sample it.

Happy Weekend, book peeps!

1. Annoying coworkers got on my nerves even more this week 😠
2. Target has an awesome beauty section so would use the $10 towards that 💄💅🏾
3. Housegirl by Michael Donkor
4. Pizza 🍕—- but now not feeling too great 🤢
5. @MsLeah8417 @Lesliereads

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Thanks for the tag @EvieBee 😘

Started this one late yesterday and am already 2/3 of the way through. This would be good to read with others as there‘s so much to talk about.

I had to DNF this because of transphobic language in Chapter 8.

This is quite a debut! Michael Donkor covers a lot of ground in this immersive tale of Belinda the Ghanaian housemaid who moves to London to be a calming influence on Amma the daughter of an expatriate family. Donkor addresses the problems adapting to a culture as a stranger, whether it is an entirely new world as London is to Belinda or something born to but never fundanentally experienced as Ghana is to Amma 👇

Powering through the halfway mark . Everyone hanging in there? #24in48 @24in48

What an unbelievably beautiful cover and a #fantasticfirstline 😍😍 #24in48 @24in48