The Old Drift
The theme of interconnectivity is evident from the swarm’s opening to their closing remarks. Throughout the story, dots are connected and an intricate web is formed as you turn the pages. Within this, Serpell manages to comment on trauma and its domino effect across generations.
The Shadow King
These aren’t the days to pretend you’re only a wife or a sister or mother, she [Aster] says. We are more than this… The women whisper it among themselves: We’re more than this, we’re more than this.
Human Acts
Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing.
With every opportunity to be flowery, Anuradha Roy’s prose is simple, apposite, and gives off a poetic cadence shifting as they transfer from landscape to action to character’s thoughts to flashbacks, flash-forwards and fantasies.
Lost in Manchester.
However, this still does not take away from the truth that Makumbi masterfully weaves stories together in a way that reveals the complications of life. While survival is what many of us are after, the truth is that we live multi-issue lives.
Confession of the Lioness.
In reading the novel, one will tell quickly that the concept of the “lions” differs for every character, and one drive to keep reading is to define for oneself what it means to you.
On Writing by Stephen King: A review
There is no magic to being a competent writer, only work, practice, and the infinite cycle of personal evolution. To be a writer one must write. To be a better writer, one must write better.
Book Review: The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories.
The stories are well written and with so much detail that one feels transported to the exact situation, feeling what the protagonists are feeling and rooting for them.
Book Review: The Kite Runner.
There are moments – in happening or not, whose implications or consequences are strewn in the foundation upon which we build our life – that makeup how we perceive ourselves or how we feel or think others perceive us.
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
However, the success of this approach comes in the setting of a close to perfect microcosm with all the cultural, social, political, religious, and colonial background analogous to the whole country.
Damn The Novel by Amr Muneer Dahab
Embrace the poem as you do the novel…elevate the essay as you have done the novel…realize that without all these others, the novel would not be nearly as relevant or as popular as it is now.
Kunda by Rachel A. Z. Mutabingwa
Racheal A. Z. takes complex ideas like time travel and spirituality and creates a phenomenal experience for the reader whilst leaving her characters and the families very relatable to life as we know it.