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Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic asks us to share ten favorite books from our favorite genre. Usually I would say that my favorite genre is classic literature, but lately I've been going through a bit of a tough patch with some personal things and have been trying to immerse myself in books that… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Empowering Reads
Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic asks us to share ten books that we meant to read in 2018 but didn't get around to. I decided to add a little twist to it and only use books from photos that I've taken for my bookstagram. (Believe me, there are SO MANY more besides this!)… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2018 (But Didn’t) | Bookstagram Edition!
Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic asks us to share the top ten authors we read for the first time in 2018. Largely due to all the books I had to read for my coursework, I was lucky enough to have been introduced to a plethora of brilliant writers this past year. As I made… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2018
Happy New Year!! I know this was technically last week's topic, but shhh! I'm going to do it anyways because I didn't get a chance to do it yet. I ended up reading way more books than I expected to in 2018, so picking just ten was actually pretty difficult. In the order that I read them,… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2018
Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share a list of ten authors we would love to meet. In the past, I've found that the lists I've made like this tend to be fairly male-dominated; instead, this week I'd like to focus on ten women writers that… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Women Writers I’d Love to Meet
Happy Tuesday!! As per usual, it's time for the seasonal TBR topic! Since the fall semester is now in full swing and I have to divide my reading between what I'm assigned for class and what is on my bookshelf from home, I'm going to do the same with this list. Here are the books… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Fall 2018 TBR
They say that timing is everything, and reading is no exception. Sometimes you read a book and acknowledge that you probably would have enjoyed it more if you had read it when you were older or younger, in a different mood, or at a different time of year. However, sometimes you read a book at… Continue reading Feminist Fridays: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What a month August was! I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels like August is a month of transition. Perhaps this feeling has been instilled in me from decades of back-to-school prep, but it nevertheless rings true every year. Here's what I've been up to this past month: In August I read a… Continue reading AUGUST 2018 | Wrap-Up
Happy Tuesday!! Can you believe that we're already over half way through 2018 already?! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share the best 10 books we've read so far in 2018. I've already read far more than I expected to this year--mostly due to my sprawling required… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Best 10 of 2018 {So Far}
I was thrilled that part of my postcolonial literature tutorial during my last term at Oxford was reading and writing about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fifteen years after the publication of her debut novel Purple Hibiscus in 2003, Adichie continues to make headlines today. Not only is she known as a renowned Nigerian novelist, but she has also made… Continue reading Feminist Fridays: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
