Bite-sized Book Chats: The 12th Episode
https://youtu.be/tXw9j7dodg8
A playlist of all episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQdBH5V0Zb9q-2ujl4PY8nhf
Chat #1: with Sarah, an Australian in the Netherlands
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Chat #2: with Q from Washington, DC
Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
"Writers don't give prescriptions," shouted Ikem. "They give headaches!"
Uproarious laughter.
Might as well start with the around 200 page book I've been reading for months...
"We don't know the genius who invented the shower or the paper stapler . . . Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. Except that our fathers were not very famous in the invention line. But what does it matter?"
Achebe's sexism or character development?
There was for me no greater luxury in those days than to sleep through night-rain on a Friday knowing there was neither school nor church in the morning to worry about.
Anthills of the Savannah | 
so-so
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
Mad Puppetstown by M.J. Farrell (Molly Keene)
Chat #4: with Georgia from York
A House in the Country by Ruth Adam
A Woman's Place: 1910-1975 by Ruth Adam
Beatrice Webb: A Life by Kitty Muggeridge, Ruth Adam
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