Tag: Africa
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Strolling through a few books at once
I’ve had trouble reading books over the last few weeks, despite hanging around bookstores and book festivals. I’ve been reading articles and stories online like mad, trying to get my attention span back, and it’s kept me from scrolling too terribly. Though I will say, the latest issue of the Paris Review starts so terribly…
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Getting through my TBR!
October has been a slow month for reading so far. I’ve spent a lot of time watching movies, or laid up in bed with terrible migraines — the weather is changing fast and fall is finally approaching. Ice took me an exceptionally long time to read despite clocking in around 150 pages. I thought it…
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Romance in Marseilles by Claude McKay
I thought this book was amazing! It made me realize I’ve been reading in an accidental trend: Marseilles/small town southern France in strange & complicated times. Transit (mid-WWII European refugees), The Rock Pool (absolutely unhinged midcentury expats), and now Romance in Marseilles (Black life in the Quayside neighborhood, from Black Americans to Caribbean people to…