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J'ai commencé ce livre dehors, durant un des premiers jours du printemps. Le chant des oiseaux a accompagné ma lecture et je sentais la chaleur du soleil sur ma peau.

Korede's sister Ayoola's boyfriends keep dying. Korede starts to worry when Ayoola is attracted to Tade, a doctor Korede works with and likes. Korede shares all of her thoughts and secrets to a patient in a coma - who wakes up. Ayoola's incredible narcissism and Korede constantly getting dumped on by everyone in her life wore me out. The background on the sisters parents did help explain their relationship. ⬇️

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Achebe titled his book from a line in Yeats‘ poem, The Second Coming, which imagines what he apparently saw as the Christian “epoch” coming to an end. It‘s an ironic title as, ultimately, Christianity, in the form of missionaries, “slouches” towards Africa, and things start to “fall apart” for the people of Umuofia. From history, we know what‘s coming but we get a poignant story of life‘s fragility on a smaller scale with our protagonist Okonkwo.

Adichie is an amazing writer, & I wish I had more novels from her to read. This one is tough—plenty of trigger warnings. Had to do a little research partway through about the Biafran war, so I could understand better. The story is centered around 3 characters who are connected. Sometimes it was hard to keep track of other characters. A powerful historical novel about the horrors of a war that most of us have never heard about. 5 ⭐️

My favorite teacher in high school introduced me to this book my senior year. It had such an impact on me.

#springskies #fallintitle

Heartbreaking, moving and incredibly written. This book is so worth a read 🌞 #pick #halfofayellowsun

Being gay is illegal in Nigeria. Arinze Ifeakandu‘s collection of tender stories shows the effect of enforced secrecy on the lives of gay men there. In vivid, emotional scenes that are like acts from longer plays, we get to know men of various ages and cultural backgrounds—Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa; Christian and Muslim. Audiobook performance by Mirron Willis is perfect. #LGBTQ

I am late to the party, just now having finished Akinze Ifeakandu‘s award-winning debut.

“…he‘d not expected Hausa to be, for this man, a language of tenderness, he‘d expected it to be a language for business, a language to be used and discarded and reused.”