Petina Gappah Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Petina Gappah

Our fifth DSB meeting ! Here, celebrating the wonderful NEW DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA compiled by the redoubtable Margaret Busby, are the other new daughters of Africa, phenomenal female trade lawyers proudly representing Cote D’Ivoire, Namibia, Uganda, the AfDB and AfCFTA. https://t.co/Uu5E2rIBI6 https://t.co/CWiAnXazBx

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This is one of my favorite projects this year. My publisher Faber asked me to do an introduction to their republication of A WREATH FOR UDOMO by Peter Abrahams. I am thrilled that a new generation of readers will enjoy this lost classic and am honored to have been part of it. https://t.co/NmcA0Xnv0O

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SAITO: I’ve been waiting for someone. COBB: From a half-remembered dream. SAITO: Cobb? Impossible. We were young men together. I’m an old man. COBB: Filled with regret. SAITO: Waiting to die alone. Christopher Nolan’s brilliant INCEPTION is also about the loneliness of ageing. https://t.co/ng4pgyZ3Zt

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A book by a fellow African that I admired and loved, and that inspired and elevated my own writing was Damon Galgut’s IN A STRANGE ROOM. There are few writers I admire more. He has just published his latest book. I can’t wait to delve into THE PROMISE. https://t.co/J96bnqaouS

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I am your number one fan!! This is my cue to reread MISERY, the best Stephen King novel ever. True story, I watched the movie on my own one night in 1991 at 7 Arts, Avondale and walked back to the UZ by myself, in the dark, starting at every sound, my heart pounding like mad. https://t.co/BHqy2XuS3P

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Some of my favorite reading memories with Kush-Kush as a baby involve him inserting his teeny finger with great excitement into THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. And trying to eat the book! Eric Carle, thank you for your gift, your genius and for the memories. https://t.co/F0zW01tlxR

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I’m also rereading Paul Auster’s THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, and as comfort reading John Galsworthy’s THE FORSYTE SAGA. For Christmas I got a new novel AGE OF VICE by Deepti Kapoor. And I’m forensically studying BLACK WATCH by Gregory Burke, a visceral play about war and trauma. https://t.co/1RQcumPeDK

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Am traveling for 24 hours. Chance given, as we used to say in Glen Norah. By the time I arrive I’ll have read David Diop’s slender novel, winner of 2021 International Booker, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s BLACK PANTHER graphic, the latest New Yorker and the always interesting Umberto Eco! https://t.co/ZfcMY7mQK8

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Here are my notes from Lower Six English 1989. We did the JUDE THE OBSCURE and I went overboard with that book. I read beyond the syllabus, becoming obsessed with Thomas Hardy and reading every Hardy novel I could find in the St Ignatius Library and the Free Library in Bulawayo. https://t.co/yvjR7uD6oX

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The Berne Convention on Copyright sets minimum copyright term as life of the author plus 50 years after death. It's reflected in Zim's Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act. George Orwell died in 1950. In 2000, 50 years after his death, the Daily News serialised Animal Farm. https://t.co/ME11EKKiBv