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[ayebydan]

This is going to take me more than a year but I am determined to hit 50 eventually. So far this year I have 3 in the bag.

1: The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam 3 ★
2: A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa 4★
3: Baracoon by Zora Neale Hurston 4★

I would highly recommend Baracoon. It was written in the 30s and is the account of the last African captured by slavers and taken to the United States. Hurston was asked to edit his story into modern English and refused as she wanted his story to be as he spoke. It is only this month that the book is being published. I only wish it were longer.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

Ohh, activity in this comm! \o/ (I'm one of the White people for whom it changed my life, no hyperbole.)

[ayebydan]

\o/ I have been a member a while. I kept thinking I had enough diversity in my reading that I did not need to set myself a challenge of sort but when I broke it down I realised that I absolutely do. But, I also need to balance that with reading what is already on my kindle&bookshelf. Le sigh

[minoanmiss]

Thank you infinitely for telling us about Baracoon.