Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

QWP 2023: Call For Submissions!!!

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  Quramo Publishing's annual literary and arts festival' s main event is the Quramo Writers' Prize (QWP), where the winning unpu...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Review: Senzenjani Lukhele’s “Tell Me No More”

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  “Tell Me No More” was penned by Swazi author,  Senzenjani Lukhele and released in 1986.  The story mostly focuses on the important rule of...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Review: Sam A. Adewoye's " The Betrayer"

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 The Pacesetters series (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers) was a series of books written by various African writers, targeted at young rea...
Monday, October 12, 2020

"The Strange Case of William Whipper-Snapper" Revisited

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This 1982 hilarious fantasy book delighted me as a child, and I wrote a post about it some years ago , which brought about a comment fr...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

THE REAL MESSAGE BEHIND 'THE NEVERENDING STORY'

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When the above title is mentioned, the first thing most people would probably say is, ‘Oh, gosh... I watched that movie a long time...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

THE GIDEON TRILOGY : A MUST READ!

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When I first found The Gideon Trilogy , I kept wondering why I had never heard of the franchise until now. I'd actually gone looki...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff & Catherine

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This intensely gothic classic, penned by the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë, best known for  Jane Eyre , should have been titled...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

BAH! HUMBUG!: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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Like most of the read classics in my book cabinet, I read the simplified and coloured edition of Charles Dickens' Christmas nove...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Never step into THE PET SEMATARY!

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In the spirit of Halloween; I choose to go over one of Stephen King's earlier works; Pet Sematary- a book, according...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Jane Austen's PERSUASION

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When one speaks of Jane Austen's (1775-1817) works, the discussion would immediately lead to   Pride and Prejudice , Sense and Sens...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

NEWSLETTER: 13 Reads Perfect for Fall!

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Explore some of our biggest and best fall books! Can't See the Images? View as a Webpage ...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Hilarious Tale of "The Strange Case of William Whipper-Snapper"

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 One of the earliest fantasy books I read as a child, which  I didn't pay much attention to  at first glance in the school library,...
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SANDRA BROWN'S "THE CRUSH"

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To date, this the only book by Sandra Brown I've read. I usually stick to particular writers: Danielle Steel, Barbara Taylor Bradfor...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

More of Becky "The Shopaholic" 's misadventures in THE SHOPAHOLIC ABROAD

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By a stroke of luck, I was able to get hold of and eagerly read part 2 of  "The Shopaholic" series, which is THE SHOPAHOLIC ABROAD...
Friday, September 19, 2014

The antics of Becky "The Shopaholic" in THE SECRET DREAMWORLD OF A SHOPAHOLIC

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Like Lucy Talk  and Bridget Jones Diary , THE SECRET DREAMWORLD OF A SHOPAHOLIC" a.k.a  " CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC" ...
Monday, July 28, 2014

LOTS OF LAUGHS AND CONFUSION IN "LUCY TALK"

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Like Candace Bushnell's Sex &The City , Fiona Walker's Lucy Talk evolved from a newspaper column and is a modern epistola...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

LOVE, LEARNING TO FORGET & SHORTNESS OF LIFE IN "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE"

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It all began when a  recently divorced woman named Theresa found a moving letter -signed "Garret" and addressed to "Cathe...
Monday, July 21, 2014

THE OSU CASTE SYSTEM IN "NO LONGER AT EASE"

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Every year on the first week of May, the International Book Fair is held at the University of Lagos’ multi-purpose hall. After buying a...