Happy Tuesday everyone! As it is Tuesday, it is time for a Top Ten Tuesday update. Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and is currently being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s given topic: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read Lis TTitle: The Crying of Lot 49Author: Thomas PynchonPublisher: Vintage BooksPublishing […]| The Pine-Scented Chronicles
Nina Bouraoui’s novel Satisfaction is told in the form of journal entries. The journals, seven of them, belong to Mme Akli and cover the period 1977-1978. Mme Akli is a French woman married t…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, focus on a past post deserving to be read, announce a brief break and highlight …| Book Jotter
New series is devoted to making remarkable writing from Africa available to Anglophone audiences around the world|
From one forgotten author to another. I’m still reluctant to return to the second book I picked up for 10 Books of Summer and instead have chosen Traces of Enayat, Iman Mersal’s account…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Two book festivals – Pa Gya! and Aké Arts and Book Festival – will both take place soon. Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra, organised by the Writers Project of Ghana and hosted by the Goethe-Institut happens from 19th to 21st October 2018. According to WPG, there will be “over sixty writers, publishers, and literary […]| Kinna Reads
I have read a ton of books in previous years but I’ve neglected to comment about them on this blog (not a surprise). There are several I want to rescue from the silent abyss and will do so in grouped reviews of much shorter lengths. The Vegetarian by Han Kang I confirm all the wonderful […]| Kinna Reads
I set myself a modest target of reading 50 books this year and already the Goodreads challenge-0-meter tells me I’m 5 books behind schedule. My reading slowed considerably in the first three months of the year but as I recover from illnesses, I’ve picked up the pace. Plus, the April Readathon has helped my stats. […]| Kinna Reads
Wana Udobang (MissWanaWana) is a journalist, poet and filmmaker. She lives in Lagos. Her spoken word album, In Memory of Forgetting, is available on iTunes. Also do check out her documentaries. (Wana’s Website). Wana is extraordinary, a woman so special, a performer. Her voice in this piece, mehn. Enjoy!| Kinna Reads
