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love Black African futurisms and such an interesting way to learn about emancipation allowing a furthering of pan-African exploitation. author of this section gorgeously writes about historical Nigeria and Nigerian indigenous identity

the beginning is so sad and i just know i’m going to go through heartbreak watching him grow up :((((

all i am thinking is that if the story ends up being amazing then i will staff-pick it and whomever reads it due to my endorsement of the story will be immediately met with several graphic descriptions of oral sex in the first pages and think « urooba what is wrong with you ». i am trying to tough through it but it is not my vibe (unless, again, it was wlw)

i need this book but with women

i’m sooo eager to devour this book oh man

any scene with Tell or Solin will have me sobbing THEYRE JUST BABIES

SOBBING SO HARD

reading on the bus and immediate closed the book at the prepubescent circle-jerk, and left it closed the entire ride. story sounds insanely cool so i’m waiting to be brave enough to open it up again.

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reading the 4th edition actually but hhhhhh let me be done w school !!!!

they turned off the airplane lights so i had to eep instead :(( also this book is written so beautifully but at the same time this woman in front of me was yelling @ the flight attendants to change the temp of the entire plane?? it’s midnight and you are in the sky, like ma’am, it WILL be cold. anyways i wish i could’ve enjoyed the storytelling without miss platinum-blonde-bob screeching in the background

started this book before the flight and never picked it up again,,, let’s see how far i get when i arrive home hehe

“These kinds of questions will arise in your mind and hang there, like the smell in the house you will never quite get used to, like old dusty clothes, and like garlic and lemon. Like other people. It will feel for months like you are spending the night in someone else's house under suspicious circumstances. Like you don't belong.
Tell yourself you do belong.
Tell the apartment.”

trying to hold myself accountable for getting thru my TBR list!!

current read -

• Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange

next up (no order) -

• Crooked Teeth , Danny Ramadan
• Blessings , Chukwuebuka Ibeh
• This Country is No Longer Yours , Avik Jain Catlani
• Strange Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
• Strange Loops , Liz Harmer
• the three other books i left partway 💀

“Before we were released from the prison-castle, a man came to measure our heads, to make masks of us, molds of our heads with white liquid. He called them life masks. The man wanted to compare Indian heads with white heads. He thought if Indian heads were smaller that could explain why we were savages. I wondered if it was death the man meant by life masks. Maybe I was being turned into a thing for them to keep”

storytelling in the first few pages had me hooked even if it was knowledge i already had

why did it take me two days to finish my notes of the intro and am only now getting into ch1

i love when men write women like people and it’s actually GREAT writing too

she keeps reliving slightly altered memories of her husband because it is all she has, and every one is more heart-aching than the last. but this one in particular,,,,, i'm in tears