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TheBookHippie
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The #togo boxes IYKYK 👩🏻‍🍳🍀💚

Bookwormjillk ❤️ 12mo
Karisa Yummers! 👏👏👏💗 12mo
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An African in Greenland | Tt-Michel Kpomassie
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Pickpick

As a child in #Togo, Kpoomassie found a book about Greenland and was just mesmerized. It took him years, but he got there and spent over a year traveling the country and meeting it‘s people, which he details here. He‘s a wonderful writer and I just loved this! I‘m also glad I couldn‘t smell the place because yikes! (Oh, and he‘s 5‘11”, but Greenlanders are so small, he looks like a giant.)

#ReadingAfrica2022

BarbaraBB Glad you liked it too! And yes that smell!! 😂 1y
Librarybelle So much love for this one…hooray! 1y
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BarbaraBB
An African in Greenland | Tt-Michel Kpomassie
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When the author was a boy in #Togo he suddenly decides he wants to live in #Greenland and sets of to do so. This #NYRB book is about his travels getting there but mostly about living among the people of Greenland. I learned a lot about them. Family dynamics, hunting, alcohol, winter and cold. It‘s a hard life under hard circumstances but with proud people. Very interesting!

#ReadingAfrica2022 🇹🇬 #ReadingTheAmericas2023 🇬🇱

squirrelbrain Ha! I love that you got the overlap with both of your challenges! 👏 1y
swishandflick Love your picture! 1y
batsy Fab photo! 1y
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Librarybelle Amazing photo! 1y
Tamra Great pic! 1y
BarbaraBB @swishandflick @batsy @Librarybelle @tamra Thank you friends, I‘ve been hiking through the Netherlands with some friend this weekend and it‘s getting Winter here! 1y
Hooked_on_books Nice! I‘m just starting this one today! 1y
BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books Using it for two challenges as well?! 1y
Hooked_on_books Actually, I have another book I want to read for Greenland and if I count this one, then I‘m less likely to read that one. So I‘m telling myself it can only count for one challenge to make sure I read the other book. 🤪 A bit of lunacy, I know! 1y
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Texreader
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A short book, we are already leaving #Ghana for #Togo, #BurkinaFaso, and #Niger. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB What a journey! 1y
Librarybelle Wow! 1y
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Cinfhen
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Disclaimer- I only read part two of this travelogue which covers Paige & Jim‘s 16 months driving through Africa! The Roger‘s with little planning but a lot of hubris and apparently endless funds decide to drive through the entire continent of Africa. I was a little amazed how these two made it out alive, as they went places they had no business being & stumbled upon some dangerous scenarios. And who knew you could drive across Africa??

Librarybelle Great summary…it does make you think that they have endless funds for this journey 1y
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Cinfhen
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Still LOVING the audio and the first person narrative stories. This current story is about the PanAm Lockerbie aviation terror attack. And it‘s focusing on #Libya #ReadingAfrica22 just in case anyone needs that country 😉 This story also mentions #Togo and #Senegal

Librarybelle Thanks for posting the other countries too! 2y
Cinfhen If I‘m being honest the #Togo #Senegal connection is much more of a mention @Librarybelle but 💯 Libya works😁 2y
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Twice No One Dies | A. K. Jenkins
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A musician is murdered but the police, justice system, the whole government are corrupt. Indeed, any could have committed it. How can his friends find the murderer & help another musician in trouble with the law without ending up dead? This is an extraordinarily well-crafted murder mystery set in #Togo, with a set of Jazz fans trying to solve the murder with the thinnest of leads in a vastly corrupt world. Very well done; highly recommended.

Texreader I am puzzled and saddened by the poor Litsy score for this book. I‘m glad I‘ve read it and plan to read book 2. I stayed up till 3 am to finish it something I rarely do for even the best of books. There were a few bad typos towards the end but I‘m experiencing that so much lately I‘m not dinging it for that. Free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers. #readingafrica @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB (edited) 2y
Librarybelle Great review! 2y
Texreader @Librarybelle Thank you! 2y
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Twice No One Dies | A. K. Jenkins
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This is an excellent murder mystery set in #Togo. I‘m trying to understand its 0 rating on Litsy because it is extremely well-written and I‘m learning an immense amount about Togo and this part of Africa. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Twice No One Dies | A. K. Jenkins
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Employing my new idea to use google satellites to map where I am reading, here I am in Lomé, the capitol of #Togo. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

GingerAntics What a cool idea. 2y
kelli7990 Good idea 2y
Librarybelle This is great! I love this idea 2y
KristiAhlers I love this idea! I‘m super visual too so I‘ve been hauling out my dads NatGeo coffee table atlas. One thing I didn‘t mind moving into the house after we brought him to live with us last year. 2y
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