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It may be well over 100 degrees (and under an excessive heat advisory) but daughter and I really wanted to go on a picnic so we went to a nearby park where the zoo‘s train chugs through. Then we went to HPB and I got these two books, on the left for #Botswana and the right for #Ethiopia. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I'm gasping for breath. Every word is deliberate to evoke raw emotions from the readers. This was not YA as I thought. It was Nega's memoir. There are moments when he seems to just lay the bald facts down - too much history, not enough heart, but in reality he's pushing himself to get through the dark memories. What a read!!!

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Everyone should learn about Ethiopian history.

There they stood in line to settle their bill at the cash register. They had to pay twenty-five birr for the bullet that the junta had advanced them to dispatch their loved one. Only then would they get the remains.

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#FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks Will you transcribe @Tamra The script is gorgeous, but I don't see it translated.

It is pure immersion of Ethiopia in my house today. My husband made the Berbere spice to make the Doro Wat (recipe found on @Texreader pinterest board). He says he still needs to boil the eggs. I'm reading this YA book, and I am going to find the Ethiopian radio station that @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick shared.

So I found this in my library network's catalog back in November while trying to find books about Ethiopians to read and checked it out before my library closed in March. I was going read this regardless. But I was pleased to discover it was also engaging and darkly humorous. I laughed a lot and I also cried a lot. And I read entirely while walking on my treadmill!

#ethiopia #ethopians #redterror #history #memoir #nonfiction #plaguebreak

Good for her! Almaz is more like a rough diamond than a diamond in the rough.

#bilingualpuns #ethopia #memoir

This has been an excellent treadmill read, except when I have to stop walking because I laughed too hard at passages like this one.

#ethiopia #late1960s #memoir

The author's personal memories of growing up in #Ethiopia are interwoven with everyday life - traditions, rituals, tales, as well as political events. The authors' general tone of narration is playful, which, with a change in the regime, changes into a serious, tragic (both at the personal and national level) narrative that offers a fairly general insight into the recent history of Ethiopia. Not bad, but also not great. #readaroundtheworld

#Ethiopia #readaroundtheworld Finished this unique book which although autobiographical also had a great deal of Ethiopian myths and tales in it. At the beginning of the book the author is a wild boy who needs to be treated for his demons. However as the civil war escalated the tales of lions, monkeys and hyenas give way to the horrors of war. Always told from a personal perspective, nevertheless I learned a lot about the country.