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vlwelser
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Pickpick

I really liked this one. I may like it better than her other book. 2 cousins grow up in separate countries and face different challenges.

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3d
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Butterfinger
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It took me a while to understand. I thought I was to nominate for a vote of best books. I understand now. I nominate Fagin the Thief, Death of the Author (tagged- Author of Binti trilogy and Akata Witch), Snowy Day (translated from Korean, published in US Feb. 2025), and Harlem Rhapsody. #CampLitsy @Megabooks @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB

Butterfinger Published in Korea in 1980, but recently published in US Feb 2025. This may not be allowed. @BarbaraBB 6d
Butterfinger Published Feb 2025. 6d
squirrelbrain Thanks for nominating - great choices! Yes, next we‘ll pull all the nominations together and then we vote for our favourite 6 to read together. 6d
BarbaraBB I think the Korean one is okay since it has been translated just now (and I‘d love to read it!). Thanks for bringing it to my attention and for nominating! We‘ll get back to you with the longlist to vote from! 6d
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HeatherBookNerd
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Pickpick

This book examines the lives of four interconnected but vastly different African women. Adichie is a master of language, and her social and cultural insights are incisive as always. So it was an interesting, if a bit too long, book. But I didn‘t quite connect with it like her previous novels.

squirrelbrain I felt exactly the same - the stories weren‘t strongly connected to each other, and I wasn‘t connected to the characters. 6d
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Addison_Reads
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Loved this one! It will be on my list as one of my favorite reads this year.

I truly did not know how the author was going to combine the two storylines in this book. I'm a sucker for a book within a book premise, and the mix of sci-fi with realworld everyday issues felt new and unexplored.

When I finished this, I just sat for a while contemplating it, and the more I think about it, the more I love it. 💚

BarbaraBB Wow. Need to read this! 6d
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charl08
Lakiriboto | Ayodele Olofintuade
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All those people who go on about how beautiful babies were, their wonderful smell and so on and so forth should have their heads examined. Here she was praying for a few minutes of soul-saving solitude before visitors can banging on her door, and there he was screaming as if somebody had lit a fire under him.

AileenRR I need to have my head examined 1w
charl08 @AileenRR I think this is tongue in cheek by the author - the character has postnatal depression. 1w
AileenRR @charl08 Oof…that‘s rough 1w
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Ruthiella
Little Bee | Chris Cleave
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#whereareyoumonday

I appear to be in Kingston upon Thames in greater London some time earlier this century with a young Nigerian refugee, Little Bee, and a recently widowed mother and her young son. There‘s a bit of a mystery as to how they are connected and what Little Bee has escaped.

Susanita I was thinking of this book today… 1w
Ruthiella @Susanita I‘ve only read the first three chapters, but her situation as someone seeking asylum in a society that doesn‘t really want to provide it is timely. 1w
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fictionaddictbooks
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Reading with a sprinkle of ☕😜

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Robotswithpersonality
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Mehso-so

I wish I had a clearer memory of my experience with the novella I read by this author a few years ago. I can remember that it had a promising premise, that there was emotion, and sci fi tech, and yet what I most clearly remember feeling at the end was a bit frustrated, a bit empty, like for all that was there, at the conclusion, once it was all compiled, it felt a bit cold. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I want to believe that robots, so often, if not exclusively, an analogue for humanity in science fiction, don't automatically mean a distancing, a detachment from human empathic response, and other books have relieved me of this worry, but I can see where this book wanted me to land emotionally and I just didn't get there. 1w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Certainly, for much of the book, focused somewhat on a writer, but mostly on a person, Zelu's experiences, as an individual and with her family, had me feeling all the emotions, and so much of the earlier moments with Ankara and Ijele had me experiencing a tentative hope, but somehow as things crescendoed, I felt less and less attached. 1w
Robotswithpersonality 4/? The writing, on a sentence level, is incredible, but I hesitate to think I'll pick up another work by this author, because despite so many things to recommend within their pages, rich insights into that life of a particular individual which I have never encountered before, but I really don't enjoy this lack of anything particular I feel at the end. 1w
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 If I felt dissatisfied with the way the book ended, that would be a particular feeling, if I was angry or sad but objectively admiring, that would be something, but I just feel a gradual dissipation of investment. Sorry, can't recommend, I'm not in a headspace to do so.
⚠️ableism, misogyny, racism, loss of a parent, mental health concerns, PTSD
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GatheringBooks
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I swear, this is the second and final set of four I am recommending for #CampLitsy25. Lols. Hopefully, there are others who share my interest in all these titles. 💕

ChaoticMissAdventures I nominated Death of the Author too!! 1w
BarbaraBB Perfection is very good too! 1w
Deblovestoread I haven‘t been able to get my hands on Perfection yet but would love it to make it to camp 🏕️ 1w
Megabooks Good Girl was really interesting! Thank you for nominating!! 1w
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fictionaddictbooks
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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