Ezioma Kalu
Book Review: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Blurb When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 22, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's wives by Lola Shoneyin.
Blurb African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 22, 20233 min read
Book Review: Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
Blurb As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: 30 Things Every Woman Should Have And Should Own by the Time She's Thirty
Blurb Featuring advice, wisdom, and observations from an array of prominent and beloved women, 30 Things is an essential guide (and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Blurb As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
Blurb Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Blurb A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Blurb Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover.
Blurb Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon
Blurb Dr. Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. He needs to penetrate the mind of a murderer. If...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: Wahala by Nikki May
Blurb Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and wants him to be “the one” (perfect, like her dead father)....
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20233 min read
Book Review: In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom.
Blurb Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo.
Blurb Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives,...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20233 min read
Book Review: Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn.
Blurb Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Blurb The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20234 min read
Book Review: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Blurb Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20234 min read
Book Review: A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
Blurb For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Book Review: A broken people's playlist by Chimeka Garricks
Blurb A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20233 min read
Book Review: What we lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Blurb Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother’s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20233 min read
Book Review: Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo.
Blurb Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. In her 40s, she has separated from her husband,...
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