Petina Gappah Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Today I’m sharing more of the Booker longlist. I can’t tell you how moved I was by SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, a haunting sliver of restrained elegance from Irish writer @CKeeganFiction. It’s the shortest book on the list, with not a word out of place. https://t.co/FTgJho2VWn

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What an incredible feat, to be recognized as both author and translator. Here’s a picture of me meeting Ngugi in 2011, explaining how reading DECOLONIZING THE MIND killed my dream of being an author when I first read it at 24, but then also made me a MUCH better writer at 35! https://t.co/5d684HZ1TZ https://t.co/GSmTHObwrn

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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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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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Please read and enjoy this riotously GLORIOUS opening to NoViolet Bulawayo’s Booker-longlisted novel GLORY. Via @TheBookerPrizes https://t.co/8qKms68Mtc

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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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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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I had the absolute pleasure last year of doing an event with @AntheaERoberts and @nicolas_lamp, authors of SIX FACES OF GLOBALIZATION. They sent me the book and have now ordered 5 copies for our library at @trapca Trapca in Arusha for my International Trade Law students. https://t.co/yhFPS7CQEJ