bailedAfter multiple attempts, I have to add it to the DNF pile. I need someone or something to care about. It feels harsh, but I do not care about these characters.
so-soI love the colours, though the art didn't quite work for me (something kinda uncanny valley).
Actually, the bit I loved most was the background stuff: each chapter has a bit of information about the real-world stuff the story is based on, and the back has a whole description of the timeline of the world which sounds fascinating. The story itself was unsurprising.
Probably not a series I'll finish, but it was fun to give it a shot.
#ComicsBingo
pickI knew so little about Liberia, its past and its customs. This was an enlightening memoir that is infused with the history of both the author and the country. Highly recommend.
#ReadtheWorld2025 #Liberia
Despite the acclaim, I am finding this a bit boring. I have read 25% of the novel and I can‘t muster any enthusiasm and I don‘t care. Before I add it to the DNF list, does it get better? It is my first Kingsolver, is it always a slow burn?
#weekendreads
📕For the first time in a long while I am reading the #NancyDrewBR selection on time! 😅
📗”Don‘t Let‘s Go…” is a #Roll100 pick for October 👍
📘”Await Your Reply” is left over from #14Books14Weeks ! 😬
pick“Planting Peace acts as both a mirror for readers who identify with environmental activism and African heritage and as a window for those unfamiliar with Wangari Maathai‘s legacy. “
Read the full review here:
https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xvii-4/11/
so-so🤔 This was a reread for a bookclub. Feeling rather milk toast about it. I‘m sure it was fresh & bold in 1959, but it fell flat for me today. I grasped the tensions/clashes created by the protagonist‘s narcissism within his communities and the cultural pressures brought to bear by colonization via missionaries. But it felt disjointed when suddenly in the last quarter the focus shifted to the latter theme. The pacing was off.
pick“Without Africa, and the slave plantation agriculture of the Caribbean that derived from it, there would never have been the kind of explosion of wealth that the West enjoyed … nor such early or rapid industrialization.” And French retraces the pathways of the European countries rampaging through the African continent, meanwhile destroying already existing kingdoms. It is a devastating, but necessary overview over the slave trade.
A late #FridayHappyReadingHour 😁
It‘s homecoming night so I have to stay up waiting for a call to pick up 5 girls to bring home here after the dance. My son is a senior and I am just now realizing next year I won‘t be on call as MomUber since my daughter will be driving. I don‘t know whether to be happy or sad.
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