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Friends! Here we are with our first "Not Your Regular Book Review" (meaning we are ranting and venting)  for #LetYourGirlChildRead2019, and this one stressed me! This book! Wow! Whose father? PLEASE THROW HIM AWAY! I loved Americanah! It is definitely one of my favorite books, so you know your girl was very excited.  My friend/Sister/Cousin Simbi recommended this one. Also, I am #TeamAfricanWriters. Except for Ghana Must Go. I just don't get it! Can someone please explain what is happening in that book to me! Anyway, let's get into it. Some kind of summary. The book is about a privileged family in Nigeria who are Catholics. Not your every Sunday kind of Catholics. The Patriarch was invested in the church and their ways to a great extent. I am trying to summarize without spilling the details. I am really trying. In this home, there is a high level of oppression an abuse towards the mother and children. This was being done to steer them on the path of righteous...

Alright! So! For some reason I always find myself being overly inspired by the people around me. While I'm writing this, I am coming to accept that this might be another form of peer pressure. Well, the right kind of peer pressure. So my friend from work is an avid reader, and she challenged her self to read 50 books this year. Not 1 not 5 but a whole 50. WHO YOU KNOW READS 50 BOOKS A YEAR? I'LL WAIT! I stan a well-read queen! I was, and I still am impressed. At the beginning of the year, I had a goal to read more. You know your girl was thinking a cool three books or something. I had just purchased the Alchemist, Auntie Michelle's book had been dropped, and the Slumflower had blessed us with a gem. There it is! My three books for the year 2019. In a conversation about books with the girls one lunch break, another friend shared that she wanted to read more this year and was trying to read at least 10 books this year. Another friend who is on 30 book challenge (Anoth...