This book is terrible. It hurts like a bitch in a very quiet, understated way, it does not have the grace of tying the themes in any of the expected or more hopeful ways, and does so in a excellently written way. "Beat me while I love you" much?... Feels like a meta-theme. There are: parallels bet...
Finally did a reread, still so damn good an important!!!!***Just like 'We Should All Be Feminists', this book is so damn important and everyone should read it.I could've easily went through this book in one sitting in the span of a few minutes. But I didn't. I took my time and read every one of the ...
There were elements I loved about this book, but an equal number of things that frustrated me. Let's start with the positives. The setting evoked a lot of nostalgia for me because I grew up in Enugu and holidayed in Nsukka, in the same university Kambili and Jaja stayed at, also roughly around the t...
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CyclePerfectly written. Simple, yet persuasive. Important and inspiring messages all fit into an easily-digestible package.This was an amazing read. Everything about it was well done. It felt personal, logical, and effective.Everyone needs to read this book...
Date Published: July 19, 2014 Format: Ebook Source: Own Copy Date Read: June 30, 2019 Read for COYER Summer 2019 Blurb With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only ...
Wow. What a good time for me to read this. Because right now in our country we are doing the most to "other" women. That somehow women are less than at all times. There are more women in the world, yet how many women are CEOs of fortune 500 countries? How many women are current leaders in government...
Adichie’s follow up to We Should All Be Feminists is at first a how-to manual to raising a feminist. But it is also a deconstruction of gender roles and how boys and girls are raised differently. She notes how men and women are raised to look at marriage and domestic work. But also focuses on langua...
I've read this before, but a book club picked it for July, so I read it again. It's still the same book I read in 2005 (says my kindle - who knows if that's correct?) One thing I adore: Adichie does a great thing in all of her books -- refuse to define terms others may not know, or may have to even ...
Just like 'We Should All Be Feminists', this book is so damn important and everyone should read it. I could've easily went through this book in one sitting in the span of a few minutes. But I didn't. I took my time and read every one of the suggestions and thought about them. I'm still thinking ab...
Half of a Yellow Sun is named for the centerpiece of the Biafran flag: * Red for the blood of those massacred in northern Nigeria after the country's 1960 independence; in the time period leading up to the Nigeria-Biafra war, and in that war itself; * Black for mourning them and in remembrance; * Gr...
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