pickA compelling book set in pre genocide Rwanda. The tensions are there and you know what‘s coming, but you can‘t stop reading. I‘m glad I read this. #FoodAndLit #Rwanda
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pickA compelling book set in pre genocide Rwanda. The tensions are there and you know what‘s coming, but you can‘t stop reading. I‘m glad I read this. #FoodAndLit #Rwanda
A terrible photo but isn‘t it nice to know the good ole USA isn‘t the only country banning books. Genocidal #Rwanda also banned books. 😡 #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
An introvert‘s Mother‘s Day: don‘t talk to me and let me work in the yard and read.
#weekendreads #Bangladesh and #Rwanda for #foodandlit and Percival Everett book for #authoramonth @Catsandbooks @Soubhiville
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This was lost in transit somewhere at the library so I‘m a few weeks late reading it for #FoodAndLit #Rwanda
Very good so far though. It‘s set in an elite boarding school in the 70‘s. The racial tensions that later led to the genocide are very apparent.
Imagine receiving this warning from your mother before heading off to school each day. #Rwanda #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
April wrap-up: I finished two books for March #foodandlit #Ireland, then read four books for April #Rwanda (still working on my fifth). I read one book for #authoramonth Kate Quinn (still reading two more), and one book I finished from last month‘s author Leigh Bardugo. And I read Keeping House as an impulse read.
I tagged my favorite book of the month, but it was a close call.
pickDeborah is a mystic who helps a young girl heal her weak body. Grown up, the girl, now a professor in the USA, goes back to #Rwanda to learn Deborah‘s fate. I struggled to follow this story. There is so much more to it, but I couldn‘t follow who was who, when things were happening, etc. I blame it almost entirely on the fact that I listened to it. I sometimes wish narrators would tell us when a new section is started, even just a longer pause. ⬇️
pickThis is #Rwanda President Paul Kagame‘s story through 2008 (he‘s still president today). A young Tutsi refugee from the violence by the Hutus even back in the 1950s, he fought in Uganda, secretly training to become a rebel soldier to try to return to Rwanda. As he built a secret army, the genocide in 1994 occurred. He was able to dismantle the Hutu government and would eventually be elected president. He assembled a Hutu/Tutsi government, and ⬇️
