Monday Night
Jun. 17th, 2013 07:51 pm1) 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.
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.