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Dec 16, 20221 min read
1036. Octavia E. Butler - Kindred
Interesting to read this following no.1035. This is about a contemporary black American woman, married to a white man, who is dragged...
Jul 30, 20211 min read
880. Abi Dare - The Girl With The Louding Voice
This is very good. Set in Nigeria, Adunni, a village girl is sold at 14 into marriage, as the third wife of a wealthy villager, to pay...
Oct 12, 20191 min read
721. Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
Heard an extract on Radio 4. This is a shocking book about slavery in the deep south in the 19th century, but it is not a very good book....
Jun 11, 20171 min read
496. Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
I had never read this and quite enjoyed it (P, who is more of an Austen fan than me, read it a few days later and didn’t, oddly). Read...
Aug 28, 20141 min read
238. Sue Monk Kidd - The Invention Of Wings
Paddy recommended this; I didn’t like it at first, but enjoyed it more and more as it progressed. It is a semi-fictionalised biography of...