★★★★★ Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at… Continue reading Imbolo Mbue – Behold The Dreamers
Category: Reviews
Review of the books I have read thus far.
P.D James – Cover Her Face
★★★★ Summary: Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P.… Continue reading P.D James – Cover Her Face
George Orwell – Animal Farm
★★★★★ I discovered that most people read Animal Farm already because it was part of the prescribed reading in school. I never read Animal Farm in high school though. We did Lord of the Flies by William Golding instead (another brilliant allegory). So I decided to fill in the gap for myself. I can't go… Continue reading George Orwell – Animal Farm
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
★★★★ This is the review given that was found on Goodreads: Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in… Continue reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
C.S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters
★★★★★ When I began reading this novel I found it so strange that Screwtape references Him (God) as the Enemy. I had to read it a few times over to actually understand who he's talking about, now I just find it funny. And he refers to those humans him or his nephew are trying to… Continue reading C.S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – The Thing Around Your Neck
★★★★★ So I finished this book in less than 2 weeks, I was so captivated (it's only 218 pages long though, should've finished it sooner. Fact remains that I was enthralled). From the author of Half of Yellow Sun and Americanah come twelve dazzling stories. Adichie turns a penetrating eye on the ties that bind… Continue reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – The Thing Around Your Neck
Agatha Christie – Death on the Nile
"The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear… Continue reading Agatha Christie – Death on the Nile
Robin Sloan – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
"The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few,… Continue reading Robin Sloan – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
If this book wasn't on the reading list for school, I don't think I would've ever read it - and that would've a tragedy! <p class="has-drop-cap" value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">"The novel follows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo ("Ibo" in the novel) man and local wrestling champion in the fictional Nigerian clan of Umuofia. ""The novel follows the life… Continue reading Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Eva Dolan – After You Die
"A gas leak leads to the discovery of two bodies—a mother and her severely disabled teenage daughter—in the third installment in Eva Dolan's gripping series following two detectives from the Hate Crimes Unit. Was the target of the killer the mother or daughter?" Wow, this one blew me away with just how great the writing… Continue reading Eva Dolan – After You Die
