Tag: Book Review
Book Review |One Of Us Is Lying|Syn Osuchukwu
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus 368 pages. Delacorte Press(US) x Penguin Random (UK), 2017. If you are looking for the perfect combination of YA and mystery, […]
Popular Unorthodoxy: Review of Abubakar Sidi’s Poet of Dust | by Kelvin Kellman
The first thing that strikes you once voyaging between the pages is the peculiar unorthodoxy, in both language and structure, employed to birth the book. Another striking feature is the […]
Book Review: The “Scripture” According to Jide Badmus
In Scripture, Jide Badmus unleashes the romantic in him as he ventures into a tirade, describing an experience that involves man’s interaction with God and the relationship that festers as […]
Book Review: Ofunneka, by Philomena Bivese-Djebah is All of Us; Perfect Outlooks with our Share of Pain
While some books begin with a bang and straight off plunge you into a deluge of emotions, some others ease into it, slowly, steadily. Ofunneka by Philomena Bivese-Djebah is one of such […]
Book Review | Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coehlo
On reading the first few pages of Eleven Minutes, you might first be intrigued by the line about ISIS; then assume that Paulo Coehlo is telling the story of a […]
If You’ve Still Not Yet Read Kintu, You are Wrong
June, Last year, Nneka Lesley Arimah asked of Kintu, “Is this the great Ugandan Novel?” This is precisely why I bought the book. Curiosity. Hype. Stan for everything Arimah and Makumbi. […]
Book Review: In Here Comes the Sun, Paradise is a Paradox | by Ama Udofa
If you are the kind of person to judge books by their covers, then you might think you are in for a sun-filled fun-filled read in the land of always […]
Book Review: A Thousand Country Roads | Munukayumbwa Mwiya
In Robert James Waller’s The Bridges Of Madison County, Robert Kincaid dies before he and Francesca Johnson, who eventually also dies, can get a reunion. They die having spent no […]
Book Review: A Moonless Star Sky
Would you risk your life to help a stranger in danger? Would you deny yourself a good life in order to change your society? I found myself asking these questions […]
Book Review: Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians
Book Review: Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians “Nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese” — Ibn Battuta I knew I had to […]