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Such an enjoyable, short, coming-of-age novel. I feel like every girl growing up has a piece of Annie in her. I loved Annie‘s contradictory nature and the simple sentences structure.

#ReadtheWorld2025 #AntiguaandBarbuda

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GatheringBooks I love your book cover! I reviewed this book 3 years ago: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ogz - i loved it too 4w

lil1inblue I read this and college and thought it was excellent. I need to re-read! 😍 4w

Kristy_K @GatheringBooks Great review! 4w

Kristy_K @lil1inblue You should! It was so fun to read. 4w

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Annie John: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid

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Jamaica Kincaid‘s semi-autobiographical account of her growing up as a young girl on the Caribbean island of Antigua and the mixed feelings she feels for those central to her upbringing, namely, her beautiful, overbearing mother. Kincaid writes well of the many different gods we adopt and subsequently reject as we pass through childhood and into adulthood, and the accompanying feelings of sadness and loss we can feel doing so.

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Annie John: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid

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Annie John: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid

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Annie John: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid

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Mr. Loverman | Bernardine Evaristo

Can‘t believe we‘re in the last days of Caribbean Heritage Month but this is the last book I‘m reading this month “Mr. Loverman: A Novel by @bernardineevaristo

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Ruthiella

Mr. Loverman | Bernardine Evaristo

My weekend plans for #weekendreads

1. Finish Mr. Loverman and Red Clocks for #Roll100 .

2. Get stuck in to Childhood‘s End for #ClassicLSFBC .

I‘m pausing on Das Achte Leben for now. Will pick up again in April. 🤞

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TheBookHippie Can‘t wait to hear what you think of Red Clocks. 7mo

Ruthiella @TheBookHippie So far it‘s a little too on the nose for my taste, but I appreciate its themes. However, I‘m not 100 pages in yet. (edited) 7mo

TheBookHippie @Ruthiella I loathed it 😂👀🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 7mo

Ruthiella @TheBookHippie I‘m going to finish it - it‘s a quick read, but it‘s not for me. I feel like instead of a story, we have points the author wants to make with her characters as mouthpieces. (edited) 7mo

TheBookHippie @Ruthiella 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 7mo

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Mr. Loverman | Bernardine Evaristo

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Evaristo pens a suave, wise-cracking, impeccably dressed OAP admist the bedlam of his long awaited 'coming out' as he prepares to divorce his wife, Carmel, to start anew with his lover, Morris. Admittedly, most of the characters irked me more often than not, and my mind wandered throughout the last hundred-so pages as I wrestled with an overall indifference towards the immature/unlikeable supporting cast, and the self-centered protagonist.

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Mr. Loverman | Bernardine Evaristo

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Mr Loverman was great! Bernardine has such talent for building communities and complex charaters within her books. A love triangle between Morris, Barry, and his wife Carmel. A wonderful exploration of living secret lives and the trials of being a closeted older gay man from a Caribbean community 🇦🇬

Ruthiella Stacking! I‘ve yet to read anything more from Evaristo, which is sad because I loved

Girl, Woman, Other

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A Small Place | Jamaica Kincaid

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This author is very angry, and I felt chastised! First among various reasons for being a tourist! It should be required reading for anyone vacationing in the Caribbean, where the tourists have plenty and the locals do not. Take for instance, water. Tourists can swim in it, and then bathe in it, and drink as much as they like. But many islands have no water source so the locals have to conserve every last drop. From there, the author delves ⬇️

Texreader into how the residents of #Antigua came to live there—slave ships, and the dire faults in the English empire. It‘s a tongue-lashing for sure. #readingtheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB 2y

Teresereading Yes it was an intense read. I will be on a cruise ship next year, and felt guilty already. But also very interesting read. 2y

TheBookHippie I‘ve always felt this way about Hawaii and we were there visiting military … 2y

Librarybelle This was a very insightful read for me. So glad I read it! 2y

Texreader @Teresereading @thebookhippie It made me think about the places I‘ve visited. When I was in Venice this summer we talked a lot to a waitress at a restaurant we went to a few times. The folks who work in Venice cannot afford to live in Venice, so they have a long commute to come to town and serve us. Far different than the experience in the book but I try to be considerate and thankful to the locals wherever we go 2y

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