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ElleCelyseReviews
Lagos Noir | Chris Abani
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The contemporary setting provides a colorful backdrop, and engaged readers will not miss covert references to job insecurity, gender bias, and how advertent cultural/religious restraints impose barriers that clash with the pace of emerging economies. A must read!!

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Ghostroots | 'Pemi Aguda
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I'm trying something new for 2025 #bookspin, pulling from a list of books currently speaking to me for the bookspin drawing, and using buddy reads + planned reads, and leaving room for more mood reads for the #bookspinbingo board. I think a lack of structure may be good for me, I've been treating reading too much like a sport lately!
#bookspin is tagged and #doublespin is The White Lady 🎉

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! The dual list system has worked really well for me. It helps me stick with my original idea for BookSpin - reading one book a month I've been putting off - but still have the fun of trying to score some bingos with my random reads throughout the month! 3mo
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AshleyHoss820
The Fishermen: A Novel | Chigozie Obioma
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Wow. I bought this at Barnes & Noble as a blind-date-with-a-book promotion. It was wrapped up and the tag said “Cain and Able-esque” which is what sold me. Bonus: Obioma teaches at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, my home state. Four brothers fish in the forbidden river. A madman spits out one of his prophecies, changing the course for the family forever after.

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charl08
Tremor: A Novel | Teju Cole
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I'm having a bit of a good run at the moment. I bought this a while back thinking I'd save it to read. A lovely distraction, beautiful, thoughtful prose and so many art and music references to check out.

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charl08
Tremor: A Novel | Teju Cole
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From over there is a sound of argument, from over there a clamor of complaint, from over there a gospel choir, from over there the muezzin's call, from over there three or four sputtering generators, from over there the squall of the bus stop and taxi stand, from over there revelers and water sellers, from over there the neighbor's relentless television... a vast sonic mix of an ocean that beats its incessant waves the whole night through...

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charl08
Tremor: A Novel | Teju Cole
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Think instead, he says to himself, of all the people in the Medina Koura, think of them in their homes, in their beds, think of their quotidian worries about their children's schooling. Think about their secret savings, and their delightful subterfuges, their religion and transgressions, their necessary severity, the warmth of their families, and the untranslatable consolations of their lives.

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JackHowley5
The voice | Gabriel Okara

Great story to teach children about the power of their inner conscious

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JackHowley5
The voice | Gabriel Okara

“There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long, I feel that this is right for me, I know that this is wrong.”

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JackHowley5
The voice | Gabriel Okara
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This poem is about a narrator who listens to the voice inside their head and decides to follow it. This poem teaches the great lesson that kids should listen to their inner voice and trust their instincts

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Nebklvr
The Fishermen: A Novel | Chigozie Obioma
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Beautifully grim and atmospheric. The grief spills off the page in poetic prose.

Tamra This has been on my shelf for so long! 8mo
Nebklvr @Tamra The writing is pretty amazing! It is our book club book for Thursday (edited) 8mo
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