#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 ! 😬
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#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“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.
#weekendreads an audio: The Crow Trap for fun, the rest are buddy reads; Fearless #sundaybuddyread Assassins #littenslovesjm Brideshead #hashtagbrigade Ragtime #literarycrew
#weekendreads Thank you for the tag @JenReadsAlot
so-so3/5
Very well-written autobiography about her childhood spent in Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi). Her sensory descriptions are excellent. However, despite of all that, I wasn't taken by it. I wasn't interested... I guess I would have preferred more in-depth introspection.
What could be better than going with my daughter to listen to my husband play with a jazz singer in a venue selling books? It was in celebration of African American history month. Fun! 😄 My daughter got to chat with the singer about SZA & Lamar, so it was a win for her.
I can‘t believe I‘m the first to post about this book! Im not a huge nonfiction reader but I‘m a third of the way through and it‘s been fascinating stuff we don‘t learn in school. There is a BBC mini series on YouTube too. #firstlinefridays
so-soI‘m only giving this a so-so because some of her viewpoints were simply outdated. I did appreciate when she would call herself out for her negative attitude. She could have edited the book in her favor, but didn‘t. I loved learning about the cultural aspects of people living in West Africa. It is also so wonderful to see how connected and similar humans are and yet how we differ also, and not in a this-is-superior/inferior way, just different. ☺️
