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31/12/2021

Happy New year!! May this year bring love, joy and prosperity in abundance #2022

11/11/2021

SHE ❤️ IS ❤️ Perfect ❤️
I can only gush and love on you😍😍😍
Just when you think God is done, he keeps on giving; Eleanora you are my double portion of everything that is pure and lovely!

31/08/2021

BOOK REVIEW 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

“All happy families resemble one another , each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
And so, our Russian soap opera comes to an end.
After being introduced to slew of characters, plunged into Russian aristocracy, and witnessed the pitfalls of untamed passions, Tolstoy’s masterpiece has left me pensive ….
The story is about our two main protagonist Anna and Levin respectively as we follow their parallel narratives.
Anna; a married woman in a loveless marriage, who upon her visit to Moscow to see her brother Oblonsky who is having marital problems of his own, encounters Count Vronsky, the man she would soon have a tumultuous love affair with, risking family, friends, standing in society, and more.
Levin’s story on the other hand is contrary to this, as we are met with an awkward man, firm in his beliefs and morals who only wishes to be wed and have a family on his own away from the decadence of Moscow and Petersburg societal life.
Spending months churning through the pages of this book revealed Tolstoy’s genius in depicting a nuanced and detailed picture of the complications of interpersonal relationships; the good, the bad and the ugly. Touching on themes such as family, love, jealousy, morality and religion.
Where our characters felt despair, YOU felt despair, when our charters felt desperation, YOU felt desperation. The inner monologues throughout this book, clenched at your throat and dragged you into the unpleasant scenarios, forcing you to be a fly on the wall as a whiteness to these crumbling relationships and the rebuilding of some.
At some points it did in fact feel like a mellow drama as the steaks were high, reaching is peak by the end of the Novel, where Tolstoy finally releases you from his grip.

Was it worth it? Yes and satisfying
Was the ending great? Yes and no, the reader gets their release and that’s where the novel should have ended , an extra chapter to end the novel did it a disservice which took away from the “drama “
However what it doesn’t take from this book is that the fact that he is a five star read!

17/04/2021

I hope you’re all living your best lives!

Happy Saturday!

11/04/2021

What we do is sacred ....

Make the time
Take the time
Review the time

10/04/2021

New reads! So many books, so little time 😂📚🤓

Absolutely excited to get to and
What are you guys reading this month and what’s on your pile ??

09/04/2021

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The Vegitarian by Han Kang

After Yeong-Hye decides to stop eating meat she is met with not only confusion by her family but anger and shame towards the decision that she has made for herself, her family is more worried about what people with think and their own appetites. This are brought to whole new level when they physically attack her by trying to force feed her food, events which lead to Yeong-hye’s hospitalization and dyer consequences.

At first impression I thought to myself “What the hell did I just read?”
Kang’s novels is like walking the mind of someone but from other peoples point of view. A novel detailing someone’s life but but from the view point of those who exercise and desire control. Unable to come to terms with someone’s lifestyle voice , the immediate reaction is brute force, judgement, and degradation towards someone who they are seem to have a strained and complicated relationship with. This novel focus on control, the pursuit and the lack of, the needing to find oneself and the confidence to loose oneself only to regain agency and individual power.
The concept is simple enough but on paper you get an insane thrilling and bombastic ride into the lives of these people, half of the time I couldn’t tell you what I was reading because things we pushed right to the edge, the other times I was laughing to hard at the foolishness of human behavior. A superb read.

07/04/2021

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Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Our protagonist Kathy, Narrates her memories of her upbringing in the Boarding school she once attended years ago called Hailsham, the story focuses on Kathy and her friends Ruth and Tommy, and as we journey with Kathy, we delve into the Hailsham students upbringing in this strange school. We then uncover the the reasons for them being there and their purpose, which will lead to future events and unravel hidden truths.

I don’t if I had hyped this book up in my head of not, but I really thought it would be a five star read, it was close, and at the begging I thought it was, however I felt let down by the ending, for something that kept me engaged for 23 chapters.
What stood out to me fondly was Ishaguro’s dialogue which I absolutely adored, the story was engrossing and well written... I just wanted more.

05/04/2021

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“Anytime I talk about my work informally, I inevitably encounter someone who wants to know why addicts become addicts. They use words like “will” and “choice “....they are skeptical of the rhetoric that addiction as a disease, something akin to high blood pressure or diabetes.”
Disclaimer. transcendent Kingdom isn’t another “Homegoing”
Gifty, a Ghanaian American PHD neuroscience student is studying the behavior in mice and the neuro circuits of depression and addiction, this comes from the aftermath of her brother Nana overdosing on He**in , which thus leads her mother in a deep depression; adding tension to an already strained family dynamics.
On the surface “Transcendent Kingdom” is a tale of a family trying to cope with their grief as the most beloved member of their family had died; the undercurrent however, is the intersectionality of when Mental health issues meets Religion to those who are accustomed to being lead by their faith and refuse to acknowledge depression or mental health as something valid and important , similarly with addiction . We see how Gifty, in the mist of all these changes and familial issues trying to reconcile her faith with her scientific works, and her circumstances in regards to loss.

Whilst this was a slow burner of a book, I felt like the book stayed with me longer, again, this isn’t another “Homegoing” and comparing the two would be unfair; I found that Yaa Gyasi took a more literary approach to this book, the work seemed more cerebral , the writing more structured , the topics and themes.. just as important. Themes of Religion and the differences between the “American God” and the “Ghanaian God” , the struggle the black community have in speaking about mental health let alone getting help for it, and the idea of praying everything away, Themes of shame and perforative faith, and the view that science and Christianity are unable to coexist for many being a stumbling block, were all things that spoke to me as a woman of African decent. Everything was tackled honestly and delicately.

04/04/2021

He has risen and reigns forevermore
Happy resurrection day!

02/04/2021

Happy
From board books, to picture books, to chapter books, to fairytales, to classics literature, today we celebrate the love of reading to inspire our young.
Whether it be silly rhymes, scary monsters, potty humour or magical adventures, we all remember what captured our imaginations at a very young age!
Let us know your favourite children’s book and why, maybe it could inspire a young reader to pick up a book too!

31/01/2021

When you feel emptied, know that you have more within you!
Your stories need to be read
Your voice needs to be heard
Your creativity needs to be expressed
Your talents need to be shared.

Happy Sunday and happy writing

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