Chimamanda! Chimamanda! Did I say Chimamanda! Ah Americanah swept me off my feet and has had me deep in reflection for the past 3 weeks. That hasn’t happened to me in quite some time after finishing a book. I found myself rereading passages after I’d finished it. I couldn’t get enough. Americanah is Adichie’s third […]
It was approximately five months ago that my book club was speaking about race since we were discussing Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I found myself being the unique reference since I was the only black person in the room. Scary. That brought home the idea that black people are not a monolith.Everybody else is […]
Most of my Wednesdays are always the same. I wake up early and get ready for work. I work all morning and through lunch. I then usually spend my afternoon preparing for my classes on the following day. However, yesterday was special. Instead of spending my afternoon planning lessons. I went with a friend to […]
We are verging on our 4th day of the new year and all my bookish buddies have made their new reading resolutions for 2015, analyzed, and written up the statistics of their reading from 2014. So here I am sliding in to home plate with mine. I made some over zealous reading resolutions last year. […]
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