Welcome to Litsy!

A group of misfits find themselves thrown together by circumstance in the dangerous, complex place that is Lagos. The best character in this novel is Lagos and the character we get to know best is the complex Minister of Education. The weaving of loyalties and circumstances is a thing of beauty.

When the scenery blends with the book cover✨

Really looking forward to this - an evening with Chibundu Onuzo- readings, gospel choir, live music creating the streets of Lagos in London!

Any other Littens in the audience - I can give you a wave?

#litsywalkers finished this audiobook today on a snowy, slippery walk. Only walked from my gym to home-- thought about going further but too icy.
This book gives the reader a sense of modern Lagos. The corruption, hustle and ingenuity that coexist. At times I thought maybe the author is trying to do too much with too many characters, but I think that sense of chaos the reader gets is meant to evoke the chaos Lagos brings. A worthy read!

After my elliptical workout at the y for #litsywalkers yesterday, we hit up the seafood dive bar in our town for $13 lobster. I'm really enjoying this book, it is meandering, but entertaining and really makes me feel like i'm in Lagos.
Probably no walk today, ny hip is a little sore. But I've had 4 days of good workouts in a row. Ready to go hard saturday and sunday.

Welp it's a snowy icy storm again here in chicago, but I did get in over 12k steps today between the gym and a walk to book club before the wind picked up! I didn't get any pictures though. #litsywalkers

Onuzo gives us very intriguing individual stories that interconnect culminating into the big picture. An interesting read.

What a ride! I expected something boring, then it changed and I thought it would end crazy high, but then it came back and then I thought it would end, but I was pleasantly surprised by the final ending. I‘m pretty sure this review made no sense, but it was a good read!

Up next...my impulse buy.

It‘s not perfect, and it took me a minute to get into it, but I enjoyed this clunky cast of characters.

Morning @24in48 -ers! I‘m back at it, I‘ve got about 13 hours reading to do. Diving right in! #24in48

I‘m beat. Time for bed. Happy reading y‘all, catch you in a few hours. 😴😴😴 #24in48

Onto book 5! Time to break out moar snacks since it's past 10 pm here and I want to clock in some more reading time. #24in48

Challenging, but in a good way. I loved the author's brand of satire, particularly the exerpts from Ahmed's fictitious newspaper criticizing Lagos and its inhabitants. A rich cast of characters stuck in an absurd situation. The author's feelings for Lagos shine out and it is gently hopeful book.

Really enjoyed this! It‘s not as happy-go-lucky as I thought it might be based on the cover. It has a little more depth to it, but I really liked seeing this random group of people come together as they head to Lagos. It shows a fascinating picture of Nigeria - including the political corruption, the different religions and classes of people and desire for a better life. I grew to love Chike and loved learning about another part of the world.

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I really did not like this book at all. I felt very confused as to what was going on in the novel and I couldn‘t follow along with the change between the characters. Maybe it‘s just me, but I don‘t think I would read this book again.

1. At first I heard Laurel, but later I heard Yanny. Go figure.
2. One podcast leads to another, and my #TBR grows!
3. June 15 or thereabouts.
4. No kids, but my niece is just about to finish her associates degree.
5. WTG graduates!
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New ARCs in from Catapult. Both of which are solidly in my wheelhouse! 😍

Darn, this started out so good – the writing rivaled Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s for the longest time, and the story was so compelling – but by the halfway mark the plot had taken an unbearably hokey turn, while the prose had lost much of its nuance and freshness before that. I could not continue. I would certainly try a later novel by this writer, though.

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#allthebooksof2017 #favoritebookcoverof2017
Well i will ignore the missing 'u' to join in with a cover and book i loved this year- a really good read

#maybookflowers #bestofmay
I read 13 books this month of which this was my highlight - although honourable mention goes t to The lucky ones by julianne pachinko and the light and the dark by mikhail shishkin and a reread of the god of small things.

Walking home tonight, I listened to a month-old episode of For Books' Sake, a books-by-women podcast that is new to me. They had a short interview with Chibundu Onuzo, and I totally fell in love with her! The interview was mostly about where in her home Onuzo does her writing. (In the kitchen, which is not good for her waistline, she said.) Her voice and her laugh make me all the more eager to read her! ❤️ Link below!

This was a 5* read, and i loved what was a brilliantly crafted story of five different individuals who randomly join together in their escapes from various difficulties to the city of Lagos. Into their 'family' comes a disgraced minister of education on the run from the government. Wondefully drawn characters drew me into their lives and lagos itself came to life on the page. At times both comic and tragic. Loved it.

I am really enjoying this story of a group of misfits who come together in lagos. Well written characters and dialogue, humour and underlying sadness, but suddenly a paragraph like this brings you back to reality with a jolt.

I started this last night and 50 pages in it is well written and rattling along but what is likely to be a fascinating picture of modern Nigeria. Plus i love the cover artwork.

Really enjoyed this. A cross-section of politics, scandal, and a human desire for some form of escape.

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Seems like a good day to start this. Hope everyone's had a fantastic #InternationalWomensDay, however you spent it x

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This month's YourShelf #bookpost

My to read pile is fast approaching precarious health and safety levels.

Can you say SPLURGE, boys and girls?

One of my antipated reads of 2017. I ghavevquite a few more but will try to focus on my backlist. #readsoullit #africanwriters #blackwomenwriters

Here's a new release out of Nigeria that I will definitely buy just for this mouthwatering dustjacket, and if the 25-freaking-year-old (!!) writer is drinking the same water as all the other wonderful Nigerian writers, I'll probably stick around for what's inside!

What a lovely way to start the day #LRC5 #setinAfrica

And sometimes, you go to Paris for Christmas and spend 1+ hours in Shakespeare and Company, and spend way too much money, except it's not too much, because you find wonderful things like an illustrated Pride and Prejudice, a graphic novel about Agatha Christie's life and a book that hasn't been released in the United States yet! #bookhaul #travel