REED BOOK REVIEW KENYA

The Kite Runner By Khaleed Hosseini book review by Bilha Lusaka Good Afternoon Reed readers, My Friend Bilha came upon the book, 'The Kite Runner by Khaleed Hosseini and here is her review on it. ................. It’s a cold Friday night,  I get home and start making dinner while listening to Cardi B’s new album ‘invasion of privacy’. Dancing and singing, I find myself laughing at the lyrics, sticking my tongue out to all the men that have silenced women for all these years, to societal double standards, I feel a sense of pride because I have been fortunate enough to have   lived in a generation where women have decided to be unashamedly and unapologetically be themselves, a time when women are finally speaking up and standing up for what we believe in, with Beyonce as our queen haha I digress.  I settle into bed to watch Queen B’s Coachella performance for the third time because this woman is a true legend an icon of our time ,every time I liste...

Too deep For Tears by Kathryn Lynn Davis review written by Sarafina Robi.  Too deep for tears by Kathryn Lynn Davis is a sensual romantic novel, with beautiful historic details. It was written shortly after the Renaissance period (I love refereeing to this times) that's in the 1800s. its about three sisters, one father and three different exotic mothers from different ends of the world, whose lives are woven back to one point. It a tapestry of cultures brought out by their father through their different mothers. Their story? ...Lets take a sip of water, its sad, its emotionally draining, keeps you hooked from beginning to end but most importantly..(you should read to know how it ends). Their dad is a an English diplomat who first falls in love with a Scottish beauty, due to drastic saddening events that happen he ends up moving to china where he falls in love with a lady and gets his second child, then India and gets the third child but ends up returning to the beautiful h...

We're Going to Need More Wine I finished reading this beautiful book at 11.14pm on 2 nd of April, Kenny Rogers’ song called lady is playing in my earphones, followed by Dolly Patrons I will always Love you. The feeling you get after finishing it, is that of calmness. It’s as though you’ve been having a conversation with Gabriel or rather Nickie Union. I must say my biggest attraction to reading it apart from being recommended to by a friend, was the beautiful cover and the title, contrary to the saying don’t judge a book by its cover. A few pages into the book, I really couldn’t get what the fuss about the book was. For in the beginning, Gabriel talks about her childhood, and I can’t relate at all. A friend of mine called Boyani, posts it in her WhatsApp status and am wondering is it just me or are our tastes different, I ask her and she tells me I should continue reading for it only gets juicier. I then meet another friend of mine called Bilhah, she cal...

Dear Kwame, I'm not going to start with greetings ,on second thought Ogamba chi!Ayako told me you are learning kiganga . Tell me how that goes.I've been thinking about a lot of stuff one of them being rich ,Kwame, rich in the sense that I can say naiveté instead of stupid.haha I know you'd tell me to go move to France ,good idea I heart but no thanks.or rather I don't have to be rich to say it I just have to sound rich.so today i went to the morgue and told him I'm tranna make a reservation, you should've seen how he reacted 😂Oh Kwame it was priceless.  I was only thinking about the Trans Atlantic slave trade,Kwame Europeans sold us weapons to fight each other then we became pawns in cold war.I'm just thinking we have no one to blame for our failures our leaders have turned out to be worse than the colonial governors .Argh!enough! enough about this talk ...I'm hungry .Care to join?           Yours truly, Naakia💜

The Secret lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin. The book The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives  is a tapestry of cultural representations that happen in deeply rooted African homes. Lola Shoneyin, the author, keeps it African and funny from the word go. Baba Segi is the typical African man who boasts of having a nursery of children, many wives who he clearly doesn't know how to please besides being blessed immensely by a third leg. He married a fourth wife who is the only university graduate among all the rest. This pretty lass, faces shame like she has never seen before.Reason being she cant bear a child yet all the other three wives are blessed with children. Misery loves company, is all we can say about the other three women. Later on it turns out they all had a secret that they were determined to keep at the expense of the graduate woman's life.Fate has it that one of their children dies instead. what a twist. its sad.I shed a tear at this point. ...