Up next: using this for Africa in my Memoir Around The World Challenge. It‘s also my November #bookspin pick!
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#unreadbookshelf
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 5mo
Up next: using this for Africa in my Memoir Around The World Challenge. It‘s also my November #bookspin pick!
#bookspinbingo
#unreadbookshelf
@TheAromaofBooks
About to start reading the tagged for book club next week. Still in a bit of a slump 🤷🏼😳 At least the dogs are having a blast 😊
1. The tagged was boring and way too long. Normal people was terrible characters and writing. Hated the writing style too.
2. Anything by Grady Hendrix or Riley Sager. Really any book that is mainly thriller or horror I'm just not a fan of. I read southern book club's guide to slaying vampires and ugh, I was just mad and disgusted the whole time.
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“Oh Blackbird, can we have some of that blackening too? We all need what your black can do.”
The illustrations in this book are stunning. The message is a good one, but could be perceived incorrectly. I think children would benefit from a story like this, if they had guidance on the lesson being presented.
so-soLong ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with black so they could be beautiful too. Blackbird warns them that true beauty comes from within, but the other birds persist. Soon, each is given a ring of black around their neck or a dot of black on their wings.
Day 5:
Finished 2 more audiobooks
The Third Mushroom…4⭐️
Off and Running…4⭐️
11 books so far
#SuperSeptemberReadathon @Andrew65
bailedI love the idea of reframing a well known story about a white man (in this case David Livingstone) to instead discuss the local people of color surrounding him. But the execution here just isn‘t working for me. I think it‘s me, not the book, but I‘m finding it scattered and a slog, so I‘m bailing out.
pickThe author, a retired elite British soldier, canoed the Congo River almost entirely by himself and lived to tell about it! He started close to the river‘s source (the actual source being too small for his canoe) in northern #Zambia and traveled through the #DemocraticRepublicofCongo to the Atlantic Ocean. I learned so much about both countries. Almost everyone told him he‘d die, especially given the violence in the DR Congo. Sometimes it felt ⬇️
