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Update on Africa Reading Challenge

7 September 2008

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 [...]

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African Reading Challenge 2

18 August 2008

So I’ve taken the books I hope to finish with me to Guyana. The one I’m reading now is Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. In short, I’m enjoying it so far. I cheated and skimmed forward — I do that sometimes — but now I have to read on, savour it. Watch this space — I plan [...]

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ARC Review #1 – Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, (Lalami)

4 August 2008

Country:  Morocco, North Africa Author:  Laila Lalami Review:  This is a novel/collection of related short stories, and in this way reminds me of Naipaul’s Miguel Street. The stories are about four Moroccans who take the risk of crossing the narrow straits between Morocco and Spain, and are separated into two main sections: “Before” and “After”. [...]

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My Africa Reading List

26 July 2008

If I take part, that is. What’s under my belt is pretty male and middle-century, and so I thought I’d branch out with some female voices and writing from more recent times Adichie (Nigeria) - Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun Emecheta (Nigeria) – The Joys of Motherhood Ngugi (Kenya) – Wizard of the Crow Baingana [...]

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Coming Late to the Party

23 July 2008

And not knowing whether I will take part because I can barely keep up, but: There’s a reading challenge going on this year that I’d like to alert people to, just in case. It’s the Africa Reading Challenge: Participants commit to read – in the course of 2008 – six books that either were written [...]

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