A Guide to Buying Books in Nairobi ( New & Used books)

Hello Readers, Today I'll finally answer the most frequently asked question " Where the hell do you buy your books?" I got you fellow Nairobi Bibliophiles I have always been a bit jealous of how most foreign counties have easy access to certain books with state of the art libraries, chain bookstores and indie used …

Favorite Books of 2018 (Kenyan Library )

Hello Friends, Yes I know it's been a couple of months since I've posted on this platform... The self-guilt has been eating me alive but I have been pursuing other creative outlets which have kind of taken over my life. Hopefully 2019 I will have some balance because I've missed chatting about books. So 2018 …

East African Books I Want to Read

Hello Friends, Yes I know it's been awhile and I can literally see the dust that has built up from my absence and it feels good to finally sit down and compose this particular post. I have been trying to get back into Kenyan literature and a recent book ( Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor …

5 Reasons to Read Rough Animals by Rae DelBianco

Synopsis Out on June 5th, 2018 by Arcade Publishing PRE-ORDER HERE! I was sent the book by the author for an honest review thank you, Rae,  Its been 5 years since their father's death and twins ( Wyatt and Lucy) have been trying to manage their isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. From what little …

5 Books that will Emotionally Break You

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”  ― Helen Keller We are just going to ignore the fact that I haven't written a blog post for over a month and even the previous month's felt a bit mediocre. My posting schedule …

Classics: A Beginners Guide (Where to Begin and Ones I want to tackle)

Classics /ˈklæsɪks/ plural noun 1. the classics, a body of literature regarded as great or lasting. adjective 2. serving as a standard or model of its kind; definitive “All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”  ― John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies Hello, Friends it definitely feels good to sit down and write a blog post after days of procrastinating. Hope you are well and welcome to this weeks …

5 Books to Reread in 2018

"...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again." Welcome to another post Friends 😊 Today will dive into 5 books that need to be reread in 2018. As much as I love new books …

Recent Reads, Updates and Currently Reading ( Mini- Book Reviews)

Hello Friends, Hope you are well and positive... January has been a bit of an interesting month, reading-wise as well as my personal life. I was bogged down and felt a little uninspired so I took a 5 day no internet break to reconnect with books and my loved ones and I feel more comfortable …

5 Things I’ve learned from 2 years of blogging

Welcome Friends to a very special post, as of today I have been regurgitating musings on books for 2 years on this platform. In short, it's my 2 year anniversary as a book blogger. I never thought I would commit this long, so glad I stuck with it through the good and the bad.  I would …

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Book Review (Short Post)

Click Here for more info… 259 pages  Viking Genre: Historical > Historical Fiction, Glbt, War, Literary Fiction “Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at …