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reading my way through these 20 somethings
[realistic fiction]
mostly stories that portray the world as is/was

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The night is dark and full of terrors. That’s how I felt this winter y’all.. it’s been a long one. I needed to be immersed in a world and time different than my own, so I decided to read A Game Of Thrones. I’m always amazed when authors write so many complex characters in one book, but George R.R. Martin takes that to a different level. The story, the dialogue, the multidimensional creativity of it all, is out of this world. The first book matches up to season 1 of the show, and the page to screen adaptation is almost exact. I think the most perfect casting was of Jon Snow. On screen, the actors’ entire demeanor exemplifies every facet of the character in the book. All in all, this book helped me through The Long Night. Thank you!

In your opinion: What is the best House in A Game Of Thrones?

#agameofthrones #gameofthrones #gameofthronesbook #georgerrmartin #winteriscoming #igreads #booklovers #bookblogger #bookreview #targaryen #housestark #houselannister #thesevenkingdoms #asongoficeandfire #adancewithdragons #jonsnow #khaleesi #fantasynovels #blackbookstagram #bookreel taken in Seven Kingdoms Of Westeros by @sameoldreads

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“Sometimes I wonder if there is peculiar madness that possesses men once they are in Lagos? Are all men in Lagos mad?”
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It might not be the men to blame. It might be something within those city lines. Who’s having THAT conversation?

This collection of short stories about experiences with Lagos men was so fun to read. I know some of you have something against short story collections (surprising), but this’ll do the trick — especially if you’re in a reading slump.
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Every time I read a book set in Nigeria I think there’s no other way one of these men can con a woman, I’ve see it all — but no, there’s always more. 😂 I wonder though (I’d have to see it in person to be convinced), are these Lagos men realllly that convincing? And how?

My favorite was probably “The Gigolo from Islale-Eko.” This story put in perspective the attitudes of the men the author was portraying - simply self serving.

At some point I had to examine the chokehold that Nigerian authors have on me, and I’ve concluded it comes down to balance. Nigerian authors include the perfect amount of scandal, the perfect amount of cultural criticism, the perfect amount of romance, and the perfect amount of literary technique. This balance does it for me, always. ⚖️

So, are the men mad where you are? Where was the man that gave you a run for your money from? 😂👇🏽👇🏽 taken in Lekki, Lagos Nigeria by @sameoldreads

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Streets saying The Dunes is the new Hollywood sign!

This memoir was such a fun read. Through her writing Issa walks us through her early life, describing her experience growing up in an upwardly mobile immigrant family (my favorite stories were when she visited Senegal 😂), then later trying to break into the entertainment industry. We also got insight into her earliest experiences with writing scripts and nurturing her creativity. And if you’re a fan of Issa Rae, you know what that writing turned into….

NOW: A little support forum for my insecure watchers! The end. 🥺

In watching the final episode, I realized it’s always been Issa and Molly. As the audience we may have gotten wrapped up in the romantic stories and the “tea” of the show, but it goes to show that the journey was really about Issa, Molly, and friendship; how far it can take you. No matter what happened it was always them in the end. That was the most essential love story.

I’m thankful for Issa and every obstacle she faced and described in this memoir. This generation really needed Insecure.

If you’re gonna miss it, let me know your final thoughts on the series so we can reminisce for a while. 👇🏽👇🏽 taken in Inglewood, California by @sameoldreads

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A book I am absolutely in love with. I’ll go everywhere you go. 💕

I probably won’t find the words to give you a review of Americanah, but know it’s my favorite. Is there a piece of writing you feel this way about?

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#bookstagram #bookishreels #booklover #bookworm #bookstagrammer #whattoreadnext #bookish #bookaddict #diversespines #instabook #bookaholic #blackbooktok #booklove #instabooks #bookblogger #Americanah #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #bookreview #igreads #booklovers #blackbookstagram by @sameoldreads

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Constantly thinking about these words.

This collection was emblematic of my Black American girlhood.

The nostalgia from the cover to the last page hit like eating a pack of seeds on the steps, with your cousin who ain’t really your cousin but your mom grew up with theirs in building 7. 😂

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Poetry is a way for the author to say what they mean without saying too much; like a literary “iykyk.”

This was perfection from @poetjasminemans, for the black girls who aren’t so carefree.

Have y’all read this? You should. by @sameoldreads

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poetic justice

August is for trying new things. I would say I don’t like poetry, but that would be unfair. The only poetry I’ve actually read was by force.. you know the poetry they teach in school that has you rereading a verse 14 times trying to figure out what the f*-k it means?
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I’m proudly judging these two books by their covers and titles. “If They Come for Us” already sounds like poetry.
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I’m already in love with Black Girl, Call Home. I can see that poetry is like most things in life; I like it best when black women do it. taken in Poetic Justice by @sameoldreads

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56 Lispenard Street.

Ok, I know what you’ve heard about this book — and it’s true. It’s sad and draining, it doesn’t allow the reader to feel relief; some people even call it trauma porn, but I’m not hearing enough about the true love in these 800+ pages.

On friendship: This is real love. Unfaltering love.

I’m always stuck with a lesson or question after I finish a book. ‘A Little Life’ makes me wonder how much of what we experience as children (happy or devastating) shapes our lives, future, and personality.. permanently? We’re made to believe that it all gets better with time, but what if it doesn’t?
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Although this book was draining, I can’t lie it didn’t take the the crown for worst book hangover. After ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ I wanted grief counseling. 🥴

If you were brave enough to read A Little Life, what are your thoughts? Which book gave you the worst hangover? 👇🏽👇🏽 taken in Lispenard Street by @sameoldreads

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There is nothing like love lost and found.

What a perfect novel about imperfect people figuring out love, reinvention, and coming into one. It’s about messing up and trying to get it right, over and over.
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This novel centers a character with an invisible disability, which I learned a lot from — it’s easy to downplay conditions you can’t see and this novel made me more aware.

I advise you to read this during the summer, it’ll feel different.
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This is not your average romance novel.
“This is for the misfit.” taken in Park Slope Brooklyn by @sameoldreads

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In 278 pages this novel said “If men have nothing else, they have the audacity.” 😂
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20-year-old Afi is a regular girl from a rural village in Ghana who is set to marry Elikem Ganyo, a wealthy man with a girlfriend his family despises. Afi is tasked with winning her new husband over from the vile woman who has an unnatural hold on Eli. 🥴

From the moment you pick this book up you know something fishy is going on! As you keep reading you know it’s coming, you just don’t know how.
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I read this book just in time — it was great for me after a period of heavy reading that left me feeling melancholy. One of the more serious themes was how African woman can feel shackled by a sense of duty to community and family — forcing them to accept things they find repulsive, because they feel indebted.

Afi, you better than me 🧘🏽‍♀️ because one thing about me... I’m going through that phone sooner rather than later to see what’s really going on!
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The woman they want me to be: Afi
The woman I am: Evelyn (sis from next door)

If you’ve read this, please let’s chat 👇🏽👇🏽
If not, you have until the end of summer! taken in Accra, Ghana by @sameoldreads

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H a p p y J u n e t e e n t h ✊🏽

Reading brings me complete happiness and fulfillment, it’s one of the things in life I couldn’t imagine myself without. Often when I’m reading a book that’s so fucking good I just be thinking wow, this shit wouldn’t have been possible.... slaves really weren’t allowed to learn to read/write. Literacy is such a powerful weapon, it inspires thought and ignites passion. These books have done all that for me and it might sound dramatic but I’m really amazed by the power of all the words I’ve read.
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I sure did live in this world.'
'Really? What have you got to show for it?'
'Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.'
'Lonely, ain't it?'
'Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you.

If you read Sula you know she was wrong about some things, but she was right about this. When I’m done I hope I can say that whatever I got in this life (good or bad) is completely mine — that’s all! by @sameoldreads

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“He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others.”

And that’s really the perfect way to put it; it’s definitely what I always needed.

In these four short essays Achebe writes about the complexities of Africa and how it came to be. That sounds simple and like something you’ve read before, but he does it in a way that’s honest and enlightening. Also, I did not expect him to be so... cheeky. 😂

Sidenote: I’m always a little annoyed when I read brilliant African authors’ commentary and they clearly identify the problems with their country and the history of these problems and what needs to be done... because why don’t the politicians in some of these countries have the same sense? I guess that’s a story for another day.

No matter how much African literature I read, there’s always more to learn inside of another book.

Who’s your favorite African author? 👇🏽👇🏽 taken in Africa by @sameoldreads

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“It’s one thing to be looked at and another to be seen.”

Boy meets girl at a pub in Southeast London. This book reads as an ode; to blackness, to love, to summertime London, and to black art (music, film, literature). Reading about love from the perspective of a young black man in all of his vulnerability at times made me feel like I was invading his privacy — I don’t often get to see them like that. It’s a raw and rare description of life through that lens.
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This book is vague in describing setting and outside, but so descriptive of feeling — so I spent most of my time reading his emotions. I got to see a man free from the confines of masculinity, and it engulfed me.

This book expressed how the simplest things in life can be complex when you live in a Black body — constantly having experiences that kill you, the number of ways we die, how “death is not always physical.”

“Language is flimsy, language always fails us.”
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I can tell you what this book feels like better than I call tell you what it is like. It felt like your first time watching Moonlight. It felt like the cinematography in If Beale Street Could Talk. It felt like listening to Frank Ocean and it felt like season 4, episode 8 of Insecure.

It’s about hiding, the vulnerability in allowing someone to see you, and the decision to swim out into open water. taken in South London by @sameoldreads

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