Book Review : The Sex Lives of African Girls by Taiye Selasi

I read this book when my AnyBooks application was freezing after the latest update. I found it on the World Reader Application.

Book Review : Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Another favourite one whose screen adaptation I also enjoyed though I did not really like how Edward looked.

Book Review : Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I loved the screen adaptation of this book, Austen’s first novel to be completed for publication but published under her death.

Book Review : A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter

One of my favourite reads. Beautiful, deep, sexy and with twists and turns that kept me on my feet.

Book Review : A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

 This was my favourite play, after Shakespeare’s dramas though. I read the play and watched the screen adaptation and like both.

Book Review: Madam Bovary- Gustave Flaubert

I think about this book, a lot. And compare it with Anna Karenina a lot. I find so many similarities between Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina though one book was set in France and the other one in Russia.

Book Review: A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal

I had planned, after reading Prisoner of Tehran, to go for something lighter but I found myself going fir this book and starting on it.

Book Review : Prisoner of Tehran, a Memoir by Marina Nemat

This is the story of a 16 year old girl who spent two years in the political prison of Evin in Tehran.

Maybe God has left this place a long time ago

“Kana uine kwekuenda muzukuru, enda. Muno muZimbabwe hamuna chirimo.”

Book Review : Chinese Cinderella: A True Story of an Unwanted Child by Adeline Yen Mah

I figured that this was going to be one of those heartbreaking stories even before I delved into the book. Not a smooth transition from Cop’s Passion but I needed to pull my head from the oversexed, mushy stuff.

Book Review : Vet’s Desire by Angela Verdenius

The last book in the Big Girls’ trilogy by Cop’s Passion by Angela Verdenius, read it immediately after Beautiful Bastard and simultaneously with Chinese Cinderella: A True Story of an Unwanted Child to dilute the intensiveness of the two books.

Book Review : Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

It kinda flows like the regular Silhouette or mushy books but it does tug at one’s heartstrings. It is a beautiful book that draws you into it, albeit having so much sexual content but hey! Who is complaining?

Book Review : Cop’s Passion by Angela Verdenius

Another delicious, soft and light read, the sort of break I needed after reading Mafia Queens of Mumbai. Read this in less than 24 hours, I could not put it down, in traffic, in bed, everywhere; could not wait to curl up alone and get lost in the world of these two lovers.

Book Review : Mafia Queens of Mumbai by S. Hussain Zaidi with Jane Borges

I reluctantly started on this book, not knowing what to expect and I was pleasantly surprised. So much I  started the review before I was  done with the book.

Book Review: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank, edited by Otto H Frank and Mirjam Pressler

 Based on a Diary from June 1942 to August 1944 by a young girl Anne Frank and latter willed to the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation.

Book Review: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Let us start at the end. The ending of this book broke my heart so much. That a small boy, Bruno, was led to the gas chambers without him realising what was happening.

Book Review: Doctor’s Delight by Angela Verdenius

This is a read for when you want to get off the intense stuff and read for fun.

B*tch

When I was a child,
I knew a woman,

A woman who was talked about in hushed tones,

A woman married women did not trust around their men,

You were a Blessing

To my friend Blessing.
Thank you for allowing me into your life.
Thank you for walking into mine.

Demystifying nudity in art

The nude in art has been a consistent theme throughout the history of fine art and has remained a critical focal point of Western Art since the Renaissance or ‘the rebirth’.

The Heat Wave

A bee buzzed and circled the potted flower by the window,
The leaves of the flower bowed from the burden of the oppressive heat .
Bored, the bee flew out.

I watched the blades of the broken ceiling fan move languidly,
Having no effect on the stifling heat that held the air in the room in a tight embrace.