Poems, Stories, (Bookish) Thoughts

The ability to create and to be able to breathe life into that creation, so that it stirs a reader in many different ways – maybe takes them into a past, enables them to make meaning or interpret some present, or even throws them into a future in such a way that their minds are opened to the many possibilities, for me, is truly a kind of magic I never want to lose.

2017 Reads

cropped-e280aa233-20-566-4599e280ac-20161012_035558.jpgI joined the Goodreads 2017 Reading Challenge aiming to read 30 books this year. Last year, I was a few books (like 10 :|) short of the 35 I’d hoped to achieve, so this is me trying to keep things as real as can be this time. But who knows, I may just go beyond the 30 if I turn my mojo on. LOL.

Below are the books I have read so far. I will be updating this list as I read.

 

1. The Imported Ghanaian by Alba Kunadu Sumprim

2. Harmattan Rain by Ayesha Harruna Attah

3. The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie

4. Swing Time by Zadie Smith

5. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

6. I Do Not Come To You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

7. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

8. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin

9. We should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

10. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

11. Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire

12. Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor

13. Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett

14. The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor

15. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

16. There Are No Women In Our House, poems by Iskandar Haggarty

17. For Broken Men Who Cross Often by Efe Paul Azino

18. The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason

19. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

20. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho

21. The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

22. The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

23. Sold by Zana Muhsen with Andrew Crofts