Author: kavuunzuve
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda has done it again. I didn’t expect to finish Purple Hibiscus and feel like someone had cracked open my chest and left it there, raw and trembling. It started with Jaja. One moment, he was the quiet son, the obedient one. The next, he refused. He stopped answering to his father’s voice. And that…
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The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Spoiler Alert: This review discusses key plot points, including character fates and revelations. Read only after finishing the book! Even having read the novel, I’m still genuinely confused, how in God’s name did Petra leave the house? How did her parents not hear her? That moment left me frustrated, and honestly, frustration is one of…
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Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Reading Man’s Search for Meaning felt like stepping into a world where humanity was stripped down to its barest essence. Viktor Frankl recounts his time in Nazi concentration camps in Austria; places where prisoners lost their names and became numbers, where death loomed in gas chambers and starvation, and where each day was a question…
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Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
This novel grabs you with suspense from the very first page. It opens with a haunting line: a girl reflects on getting a B in math, asking her mom for a tutor, and wonders, if she’d known the chain of events that one decision would unleash, would she have chosen differently? I remember thinking: Okay,…
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Wanderlust in Sri Lanka: Reflections of a Solo Traveler
This blog is going up two weeks after the expected time; there goes my resolution to procrastinate less in 2024. Anywho, 2025 is right around the corner and we know what resolution will make a reappearance. Worry less though dear reader, I am an earnest journaler (if that’s even a word) and all the details…
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Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand was not an easy read for sure. I started with the author’s note and had to use my dictionary every few statements. I remember almost giving up. But my colleague had sworn by this book, and so I had to stick it out and find out why. At one point, frustrated,…
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Seven Days, One Explorer: My Solo Trip to Jordan
I’m writing this trip’s blog on my flight back home because once bitten, twice shy people- we all know what happened with the Sri Lanka trip blog and I will not be making the same mistake again. Quick back story, I had wanted to take this trip to Jordan last year in December during the…
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Rendezvous Of Two Single Childless Friends in West Africa
I literally had to force myself to put down the book I was reading (Hanya Yanagihara you beautiful genius) because more than three hours into my flight, I was yet to get started on the skeleton of this blog and it’s something I was very committed to getting done on this flight. So, whilst looking…
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Unexpected Friendships And Impromptu Travels
I’m seated at Addis on my layover, laptop about to die and my cable is not suited to the charging ports they have at the airport. If someone had told Felistus at the start of the year that she would be seated in Addis on her way from Ghana and Ivory Coast she would laugh…
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Airport conversations
Photo by Anna Gru on Unsplash A conversation with Felistus on August 5th 2023 2128hrs The specificity of the time- that’s from this little trick I started where I add time stamps when I’m journaling because I journal up to five times a day. Shoot me; writing is a form of therapy for me. I don’t for…
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