February 2023 Reading Wrap Up


Reading Wrap ups

The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le […]

July 26, 2023

My Normandy Book Club Final List 2023 – 2024


Book Club

I have loved reading for so long that it isn’t a surprise that I’m now running 2 book clubs – one here in Normandy where I live (It’s been going now for over 15 years) and the second one is  called the Read Soul Lit Book Club and it’s on its third year over on […]

July 20, 2023

My Top Books of 2022


Booktube Videos, My top books of 2022, Top Books of the Year

  “So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up […]

July 17, 2023

Read Soul Lit Photo Challenge Day 6 and Day 7


ReadSoulLit

    Day 6: Plant and a BookI will always mention Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May when some ask for recommendations of Black American authors. This book is so damn underrated! I hope one day Eric Charles May decides to release another book. I’d be the first one to purchase it.Bedrock faith has everything […]

February 8, 2021

Overview: My reading in 2019


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Quote:  “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…. The man who never reads only lives one.”                                                                            […]

January 1, 2020