Mental health is so important and people often forget it is linked to our physical health. It’s World Mental Health Day and what better way to create awareness if not with books? In this post, I’ll be sharing some books that touch on mental illness that are worth reading. I know we’ve come a long way with mental health awareness in Nigeria and Africa as a whole which is fantastic. However, I feel like the focus is usually on Depression and ... Read the Post...
8 Tips On Reading More!
I often get asked how I became an avid reader and my answer is always 'I don't know. I just started reading and it became a habit.’ My earliest memory of reading was me at the age of 7 getting lost in the graphic book titled "My book of bible story". I probably read it like 100 times and then I went from this to sharing novels with my best friend in secondary school. We would read books, exchange books and meet up after school to talk about ... Read the Post...
In the Palace of Flowers | Book Review
"In The Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical novel about Jamīla, an Abyssinian slave, whose fear of being forgotten, of being irrelevant, sets her and Abimelech, a fellow slave and a eunuch, on a path to find meaning, navigating the dangerous and deadly politics of the royal court. Princewill vividly recreates the court of the Iranian Shah in the 1890s, a precarious time of growing public dissent, foreign interference from the Russians ... Read the Post...
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw | Book Review.
The Secret lives of Church Ladies became roughly popular on my side of Instagram two months ago. I've always just saved it and moved on but While I was looking for what to listen to on Scribd, I came across the audiobook and I paused the book I was listening to just to get a feel of what it's going to be like. The narrator's voice had me hooked and I found myself listening to it in one sitting. Synopsis "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies ... Read the Post...