Update on Africa Reading Challenge

No, I haven’t forgotten it.  Have you?

Here’s my update.  I took books, as I said, to Guyana to read.  That was optimistic; I didn’t get the chance while on the ground, though I did read small bits of Purple Hibiscus in the bath once or twice.  I also didn’t get the chance to attend Karen King-Aribisala’s reading, much to my regret, as I know Karen personally, having attending the 1992 Caribbean Writer’s Workshop with her (and Edwidge Danticat and Garfield Ellis and Geoffrey Philp — time, hey, for me to get my behind published like my peers, huh?) Karen, if you ever chance to read this, please please accept my apologies, and start saving — CARIFESTA’s here in The Bahamas next time.

I will be posting reviews — I finished two more books — over the next week or so.

Cheers.

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