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…
Category: Slavery
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…