Ore Reads: A Conspiracy of Ravens

You know the saying about “what you are looking for in Sokoto, you found in your sokoto”? Well, for the non-Nigerians among us: Sokoto is a state and city in northern Nigeria and from city of Lagos, where I reside, it’s as far north as you can...

Reading Check

Hello fellow reader! Notice that I already assume that you love to read. Why? Well, because you are reading a blog, especially in an age that many internet users have moved on to consuming mostly video content. How is your reading life? I wrote about my 2021 in books...

My Year in Books

This has been my best reading year since I gave birth to my first child. I feel so proud of myself, because this shows how much better I have become at organising my time and prioritising reading. It has also been my most diverse reading year, as I branched out into...

Ore Reads: Expanding My Mindways into Sci-Fi

While I consider myself to be a wide reader, there are some genres that I have read very little of as an adult. Science fiction is definitely one of them. As a teenager, I read a lot of Doctor Who. Does that count as sci-fi? Well, I think so because science and...

Ore Reads: A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Cover of “A Casual Vacancy” Of course like everyone else on the planet, I knew who Harry Potter was. How could I not? Do I live on another planet. And if life exists on other planets, it very possible that even the residents there know who Harry Potter is....