This book was my last purchase from Murder by the Book in Houston. I loved Kwei Quartey‘s Emma Djian series, so I‘m ready to start the Inspector Darko Dawson series, also set in Ghana.
We are back home now but I have a lot more books to share from our bookstore crawl in Houston yesterday. 😊
pickTwo girls with separate stories, separate lives, separate struggles, coming together at the end.
Last week I was discombobulated by the time change and didn‘t have a #hyggehourreadathon at all. This week it‘s dark and windy, but the promised rain hasn‘t materialized.
We just had corned beef and cabbage, and I‘m settled in with the tagged book. It‘s for book club tomorrow.
pickFast-paced, very readable with an unpredictable plot, this book set in Ghana's capital Accra tackles the incredibly important topic of far-right American groups' involvement anti-LGBTQ bills/laws there. P.I. Emma is quite badass and tenacious in her undercover work looking for the murderers of two gay men and two trans women (violent, gruesome deaths, read with caution). Is this a bit melodramatic? Yeah. Is it also kind of devastating? Yeah.
pick#FeelinTheLove Day 26: #SisterLove - This shared womanity or sense of girlhood is evident in the tagged book I read for #DecolonizeBookshelves - irrespective of one‘s skin color, to be female is to belong to “the ranks of the wretched.” One of the really great titles I read from the list of “Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books.” My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-opq
Bubbles and books - the way Saturday nights should be! Happy weekend everyone 🛁 📚 🫧
Sitting by the sea in the sunshine with my bright yellow book, I can imagine spring is coming!
pick3rd book in the Dawson series.
Interesting plot.
What I like in this series, is that yes, it's a murder mystery, but also that it is set in Ghana, so it's a change of scenery and culture.
Today after a year of library abstinence whilst I tried to clear my TBR shelves I finally allowed myself to go wild in the aisles once more. My littlest and I went after school and up picked up whatever took our fancy (the kids have been allowed to borrow books this year, I‘m not a monster). Apart from Exiles these books are all completely new to me. It felt so good!! And I‘m excited to dive in and see if they are as good as they look.
