The book that taught me a truth that I suspected but never knew for sure. A time period that my mind is too young to fathom, because while growing up, war was a topic for the history books. Although nowadays, social media has made a willing or reluctant witness of every single individual owning a…
Category: Non-fiction
My last reads of 2015
Never too late to talk about 2015 reads even if we’re in 2016. 2015 as a reading year for me was quite challenging, so much so that to read as many books as possible, I kind of left the reviewing part on the side. I did managed to read 60 books though, which makes it…
LaChouett Feature: My favourite books in 2014
Hello all, I have decided to put up my list of favourite reads looking back on 2014 which is when I started this reading journey. Let me tell you first that I am not a professional critique, that I have absolutely no qualifications in creative writing and that I really do not pay too much…
Book Review: “The Moor’s Account” by Laila Lalami
I discovered @lailalalami this past year purely through this novel. I had not read her before. “The Moor’s Account” recounts the story of Mustafa who grew up in Morocco, became a merchant and then a slave during The Spanish conquest of the New World. I know very little about this time in history and…
Book Review: “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd
Synopsis from   Before I picked this book, I remembered thinking…Ok, I have been reading some fun things, some things that were down right dirty and way too many Young Adult novels in a too short period of time. This is great if you want reading to be really relaxing, however this time I fancied…
Book Review: “12 Years a slave” by Solomon Northrup
synopsis from I read this book in March 2014, it is now December 2014 and I still cannot bring myself to watch the movie. Just literally finished reading this book and I am left with more questions than answers and shown how little I know about this very dark chapter in human history. I do hope…