so-soI did manage to finish this before Audible took it from the Plus program. It was slightly better than The Moon Sister, but, because Electra becomes interested in the causes of civil rights and drug abuse prevention, Riley becomes overly pedantic about those causes, making the book drag. Learning about the Happy Valley Set in Africa was interesting, however. They were some unhappy people. Started Ashley Winstead‘s The Last Housewife. #audiowalk
I‘ve got 11 hours left; I really hope I can finish it by the 12th. I‘m liking this one better than The Moon Sister. #audiowalk
I usually take a break between the Seven Sisters books, but this one is in Audible Plus right now, which means I don‘t have to use a credit for it — it goes back into the regular catalog on 8/12. I have 13 hours left. At first I didn‘t like Electra — she‘s so emotionally needy — but she‘s grown on me. #audiowalk
bailedI really thought that I would enjoy this fictionalized account of Beryl Markham‘s life in colonized Kenya, but I read 100 pages and found myself surprisingly…bored? Even in first person narration, she‘s not really coming to life for me here. Might be a case of bad timing, but I‘m ready to move on from this one. My July #DoubleSpin
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Read for #readtheworld2025
Memoir about a man‘s life in Kenya. I found it interesting and very specific to Wainaina‘s life. A mix of coming of age and details of how he became a writer.
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“Richard Turere tells the story of how he invented a system of lights to protect livestock from predators, now used in many places around the world.“ Check out the full review for this biographical picturebook of a Maassai inventor: https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xvii-2/6/
pickIn 1899, Jeremy is in Rwanda overseeing building a railroad when two lions begin killing the workers (like the Ghost and the Darkness if you‘ve seen the movie or heard about the true story). In 2000, Max, a young woman with Aspbergers, is looking for a plant that could be the basis for a new life-saving drug in the mountains of Rwanda. Their stories are told alternately. And how they are intertwined will come as a complete surprise at the end ⬇️
This ibook s fascinating. The female main character is a scientist in the 2000s with Asperger‘s, so her parts of the story describe how she approaches the world so differently. For example, when she entered a room she only looked at the people‘s feet because faces are too chaotic for her to handle. I find her story so compelling. I‘m not quite into the 1899 part of the story yet but I‘m thinking the male MC may have a mild form of “aspies.” ⬇️
