Welcome to a 22 year old’s ramblings about books, poetry and travelling!
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give tells the story of Starr as she navigates life after witnessing her friend Khalil being shot by police. Set in Garden Heights, a predominantly black neighbourhood, the book follow Starr’s turn to activism. I listened the the audiobook version of The Hate U Give, brilliantly narrated by Bahni Turpin. Turpin really… Read more
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The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter
Did I draw this? Frame or bed, hole could be window, flesh could be flat, nobody looking, One body prostrate, another attending. Another beautiful poetic prose book by Max Porter, The Death of Francis Bacon is a brief tale of Bacon’s final days. In April 1992, Bacon fell ill in Madrid, taken to a convent… Read more
[…] Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons; Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet; Bill Bryson’s…
[…] Irving Stone’s Lust for Life; Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; Marie Brennan’s A Natural History…
[…] book worth the hype. Where The Crawdads Sing has remininces of Tara Westover’s Educated and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the…
[…] Time Lived, Without Its Flow is a companion to Riley’s poetry Say Something Back – my favourite read of…
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