Several book-blogging colleagues (Kinna Reads, ImageNations and Reading Pleasure ) have written about their February reading and plans for March. Naturally as a book lover and reader, I am always happy to see what others have been reading, and also what their To Be Read “bookshelves” look like.
On the reading front, I only finished four books – three fiction and one non-fiction, three male authors and one woman, two with Ghanaian settings:
- The uncommon reader, by Alan Bennett [which was actually a re-read, for Accra Book Club. A satirical, comic view of the British Queen, and the effects of reading. A short novella, but definitely for book lovers!]
- Room, by Emma Donoghue [Really good novel about a young woman imprisoned for several years, and the life she make for herself and her son born in captivity. Harrowing on the emotions at times]
- A sense of savanna … tales of a friendly walk through Northern Ghana, by Kofi Akpabli [Enjoyable travelogue. Some locations I have been to; others I would love to visit]
- Tales from different tails, by Nana Awere Damoah [Stories mostly about relationships, often with setting in Ghanaian tertiary institutions]
Books 3 and 4 could count towards the Africa Reading Challenge .
On the book-buying side, not much activity. I did buy eight books – split between fiction and non-fiction – a sort of belated Christmas cum New Year present to myself! But I haven’t started reading any of them yet. And during February I didn’t buy or download any e-books either!
Do I have plans for March? Not really – apart from finishing a few of the books I am reading now. But who knows how I will feel as the month moves on?
And if there is a lot of load-shedding from Electricity Company of Ghana, I may not be able to do much reading in the evenings anyway!
Accra books and things 