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Category: Reads

  • The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

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    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…

  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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    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…

  • The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

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    I didn’t pick up this book because I wanted to be rich, nor was it because I was tired of feeling broke, even when I had a paycheck- case in point, I read it when I was in university because I wanted to learn how to use the little money I had, courtesy of saving…