I Do Not Come to You by Chance. Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

I Do Not Come to You by Chance. Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani | Adaobi Nwaubani

My year was...should I say weird. I did mostly rereads but I'm ending the year with ones I've not read before: the tagged one and Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics. I was also MIA on Litsy most of the year.
Anyways, 2023 here I come🥂🥂

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LibraryCin

I Do Not Come to You by Chance | Adaobi Nwaubani

so-so

This was ok. I‘m not sure there were many characters I particularly liked, and it was a bit slow in the first half. The end also confused me a bit, as I‘m not exactly sure what happened there. I had briefly considered upping my rating a bit until the end

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MommyWantsToReadHerBook

I Do Not Come to You by Chance | Adaobi Nwaubani

pick

Uhm, I'm calling this a pick because it made me think and definitely casts light on the inequalities in the world. But at times I just wanted to finish as it drove me crazy! The meetings with the marks stressed me out and this whole side of materialism and ostentation that just seems to run like a scourge through the whole of Africa infuriates me & was sometimes genuinely difficult to read. I love my African brothers and sisters but I hate this. ⬇

MommyWantsToReadHerBook The book is well-written though with a mostly satisfying twist towards the end, and I would recommend it for anyone's cross-cultural education. 7y

RadicalReader @MommyWantsToReadHerBook I noticed in your bio you‘re a translator for what languages do you translate? 7y

MommyWantsToReadHerBook @RadicalReader mostly English to Afrikaans 7y

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RadicalReader @MommyWantsToReadHerBook how did you learn Afrikaan? 7y

MommyWantsToReadHerBook @RadicalReader I'm South African and it's my mother tongue 😊 7y

RadicalReader @MommyWantsToReadHerBook was it hard for you to learn English? Everyone says it is a very difficult language for people to learn when it isn‘t their mother tongue. 7y

MommyWantsToReadHerBook @RadicalReader pretty much everyone in South Africa is at least bilingual. And I grew up in very English province (a throwback to British occupation) and went to a tiny double-medium school. So though I couldn't speak it on my first day in first grade, I soon learned and it was as if I had always spoken it 😊 7y

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Cydster61

I Do Not Come to You by Chance | Adaobi Nwaubani

Last year I "made a mental note" to try to read more books by people of color and was disturbed at the end of the year to find they represented only a third of what I'd read. This year I managed to get it up to about half. Hillbilly Elegy represents diversity of class. I also read a few books featuring gay people of color like God is Pink, Under the Udala Trees, & Bright Lines but I don't have copies now. #diversebooks #booktober @RealLifeReading

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