My body, on the other hand, feels no remorse; just equal parts exhilaration and gloom for the manner in which the series ended, with Jeffrey Archer keeping me dangling on edge, as is his signature, in anticipation of his latest work Heads You Win.
Read MoreSadly, there was no mention of this great author by any of the featured writers as an influence or role model while growing up and reading voraciously. Perhaps there is truth in the words that James Hadley Chase was only popular in Nigeria.
Read MoreRecommended or not, if a book fails to capture and keep my attention it will be discarded. I only saw Under the Udala Trees to its logical conclusion because I hoped to agree with the reason it had garnered some traction and won a couple of awards at the time of its publication. Alas, at the end of it, I didn’t. Or I must have missed it. Besides some of its themes – same sex love and the Biafra war, it was pretty lacklustre for me. The writing style was not phenomenal, neither was it pedestrian. And the book took up time enough I would have spent on two such volumes.
Read MoreIn the afternoons, it is bedlam. The noise from the public schools erupts like an active volcano right from their gates – a signal that school hours were over for that day. Imagine six schools simultaneously spurting out their occupants onto the streets.
Read MoreMitaire is one. The middle name of the close cousin I spoke about above. The first boy in a bevy of girls. Hence Mitaire – a lovely- sounding, traditional tag – is a fitting epithet meaning ‘I have reached them.’ _
Read MoreConsidering I am only logged into Facebook, I figured it would be a breeze to be a part of.
Read MoreThis is me on the last day, not actually looking forward to another weekend of Facebooking as was my lot on September 1. The anticipation has been watered down somewhat due to deliberate abstinence.
Read MoreGetting ahead of yourself, aren’t you, lady? Complete the challenge first, then you can tackle that bridge when you get to it.
Read MoreSo when someone tells me, in not so many words, he’s just a child, my disposition is unrelated to the interference. I am wondering: At what age exactly does that excuse expire? 14? Adulthood? When it would be too late?
Read MoreSomething good emerges from this abstinence.
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