Monday Night

[nightdog_barks]

1) Head cold is almost completely gone. It hung on for a while, adding to my general foul mood and crankiness.

2) Read Hilary Mantel's Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir, and by god it is brilliant. Mantel is a writing god.

3) Started Americanah, by a Nigerian writer named Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is about a Nigerian blogger (bloggess?) who's been living in the U.S. (in Princeton) and who decides to return home. There was a positive review of it in the NY Times and so far it is excellent.

4) And speaking of Nigeria ... this Nigerian-American singer reminds me very much of Adele:

Four things make a post.

Comments

[taiga13]

Hello! Americanah sounds interesting, I'm always up for modern African writers. I'd like to read The Son by Philipp Meyer as it's getting great reviews.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/a-brilliant-novel-charts-the-dark-power-of-the-human-heart/article12561529/

[nightdog_barks]

See, I've read very few African writers (I've read some J.M. Coetzee and some Nadine Gordimer, but that's about it)! So far Americanah is REALLY good.

Ha, there was a review of The Son in the NY Times, and I thought it sounded interesting so I wrote it down in my "to read" notebook. :D

Also, that link on the Globe and Mail page to John Boyko's Blood and Daring, about Canadian soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, looks absolutely fascinating. So I've written it down too.

[taiga13]

I've read very few African writers
Same here, which is why I'm always looking for them! When I look for books about Africa I only seem to find ones by Westerners.