Ore Reads: Lagos to London by Lola Aworanti-Ekugo

The acclaimed American writer, Mark Twain, said that “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” Lagos to London is the debut book by Lola Aworanti-Ekugo. It tells the story of two young people who embark on a journey to “get an education”, but...

On Writing – When You Have No Time

Me at my laptop – one of my happy places 🙂 Two weeks ago, I joined a daily writing challenge. The plan was that each day for one week, a word would be shared with all the challenge participants to serve as a prompt for a piece of writing for that day. Easy...

A Wanted Man

I just completed my first book of 2021. Well, technically I started it in 2020 and finished it in 2021. So I’m sure how to categorise that. Certainly not a full read. A half-read? Anyway, it was A Wanted Man by Lee Child, another book in the Jack Reacher series....

Racing Through the Reads

It’s the end of year and I feel like I’m sprinting now. All the books that were left unread throughout the year, are flying off the shelves now. Black lady reading. Source: https://www.happyharperbooks.com/blog/worldbookday2020 When the lockdown started in...

Books

I love to read. There’s no feeling like loosing yourself in a good book. So I wonder why I don’t do it as often as I would like. Well, no, I know the answer to that. My life is so full of other activities that crowd out the time that I would have devoted...