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What it means to be Black in America

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Cebo Campbell’s Sky Full of Elephants is an imaginative riveting story set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search of answers. One day, a cataclysmic event occurs, all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served his time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor … Continue reading What it means to be Black in America

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Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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You love your husband. But sometimes it feels like you’re the only one trying. You remind. You plan. You make everything run smoothly- and yet the more effort you put in, the more distant it seems. In The Surrendered Wife, you’ll learn why when you stop trying to manage- and fix-things, your partner will lean in. The tender touches will return and he will help without your having to ask. Counterintuitive? Absolutely. Effective? Millions of women say yes. The Surrendered Wife equips you to: Say the simple phrases that inspire your husband to step up, bring back the man you … Continue reading Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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Tribulations of gig-going, romantic fumblings…

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Homework is a portrait of a young boy, who keeps passing exams and  if a changing England in the 1960s and 1970s. Geoff Dyer famous for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matters, has written fiction, nonfiction and essays, with an interest in film, art, photography, jazz and takes a keen interest in writers and their writing. Geoff’s novel included Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, a novel Out of Sheer Rage, about not being able to write a biography of D.H. Lawrence; Yoga for People Who Can’t be Bothered to Do It, (2003), a collection of travel essays is the … Continue reading Tribulations of gig-going, romantic fumblings…

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Americans in the City of Light to find their happiness

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Love actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.International bestselling author and sportswriter, Massachusetts-born Kristin Harmel’s Meet Me in Paris, follows nine Americans in Paris, whose stories intertwining as they are soul searching for the meaning of true happiness and love. Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time- but they know it will also be their last trip together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as … Continue reading Americans in the City of Light to find their happiness

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Life of Outcasts with tainted nobility who scrub and clean the stains of our consumer society

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Canadian writer, social worker, and sociologist, Simon Paré-Poupar who did his first round as garbageman in Montreal as a teenager in “Trash” writes “The Garbageman is the Sisyphus of our consumer society. My fellow garbagemen and I scrub clean the stains of our consumer society.” He says he has personally shifted nearly 70, 000 tonnes of junk, but he and his peers are given a wide berth by the households they serve, “people thank the courier… the mover, and the small carrier. But they barely see the garbageman. They wish we could be invisible, just as they hope their garbage … Continue reading Life of Outcasts with tainted nobility who scrub and clean the stains of our consumer society

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Nigeria’s economic romance scammers providing Consistent undivided attention to lonely Westerners

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Spanish journalist, Carols Barragán’s “The Yahoo Boys” is about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and moral dilemmas they face. When is mother started emailing with a handsome American soldier who promised to send gold bars to her Madrid apartment, Barragán came face to face with the human toll of online romance fraud. After tracing the emails to an IP address in Nigeria, he travelled to Lagos to find his mother’s scammers and stumbled on a bigger story. There, in a crowded and impoverished neighbourhood in the midst of Africa’s largest city, he … Continue reading Nigeria’s economic romance scammers providing Consistent undivided attention to lonely Westerners

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Reganomics effects on Harlem

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Colin Whitehead, two-time Pulitzer winner and #1 New York times bestselling author’s Cool Machine is an entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in his Harlen Trilogy.  1918 New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Regan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, however, successful business owner/master fence  for stolen goods which keeps dragging Ray Carney violently into the criminal underworld which requires delicate balancing act, but this concept of “constant turbulent change”, has kept him moving. Just as Carney moves between different worlds, Whitehead … Continue reading Reganomics effects on Harlem

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Empress Matilda: Female Lord of the English

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Henry I of England, King from 1100 to 1135, towards the end of his reign, had notoriously  at least 20 illegitimate offspring,  and found himself in a predicament related to the succession. His marriage had been unfortunately less fruitful. His first wife, the pious Anglo-Saxon princess Edith Matilda, produced only two babies before she “ceased to either have offspring or desire them”.  And his second, the much younger Adeliza of Louvain, failed to produce a replacement for his heir presumptive, William who drowned in the White Ship disaster of 1120.  Consequently, Henry’s only legitimate  child was a daughter Matilda,  who in 1127 was formally recognised as … Continue reading Empress Matilda: Female Lord of the English

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Life-or-death jeopardy

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New York Times bestselling author, Ruth Ware’s follow-up to multi-million mega-hit The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe. When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel – owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann- arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to re-establish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago. … Continue reading Life-or-death jeopardy

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Struggle for acceptance, greatness, capacity for self-destruction, guilt and freedom.

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East of Eden is a 1952 family saga novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Exploring themes of depravity, beneficence, love , the struggle for acceptance, greatness, capacity for self-destruction, guilt and freedom. Featuring the lives of two families, the Trasks and the Hamilton, and their interwoven stories. The Hamilton family in the novel is said to be based on the real-life family of Samuel Hamilton, Steinbeck’s maternal grandfather. Steinbeck carefully establishes the setting with the description of the Salinas Valley in Central California. The story between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of … Continue reading Struggle for acceptance, greatness, capacity for self-destruction, guilt and freedom.