Gabrielle Union's memoir We're going to need more wine  has so many outstanding features like honesty, activism and humour. The book is real and raw as it gives great insights into one of Hollywood's actresses. I have been in love with gabby   (my nickname for her) from the movies  Deliver us from Eva   and  bring it on, so when I saw the rave online I knew it was going to be an amazing book. The book opens up with a chapter  that introduces you to Nickie (Gabrielle Union's nickname gotten from her maiden name Monique), the smart little girl who grows up in a predominantly white community and school, confronted with internal  colorism,and tries hard to fit in. Every chapter reveals a secret struggle she has encountered that everyone must have faced at some point. The story is relatable and transparent as Gabrielle shared deep personal stories like her getting  raped at age 19,  her on-set experiences , beauty standards and c...

Homegoing   by Yaa Gyasi Published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 7, 2016 Genre : Historical Fiction  Pages: 305 Source: purchased Yaa Gyasi debut novel  Homegoing  is  a  testament of Black strength,  voices, and  memory.  It's one of the most powerful novels I have ever read and since my book club picked the book as January read, I have not gone a day without thinking and marvelling about it. The novel opens in the forests of 18th - century Ghana; through a fire accident , half sister's Effia and Esi were separated at  birth and they  grow up in different tribes  not knowing one another . Effia was married off to a British officer and lives with him in comfort at the Cape coast castle          ( center of  British trade on the Gold Coast) , but unknowingly to Effia, her half sister Esi was in the castle's dungeon. Esi was captured in the Fante village she grew up i...

welcome to the new week,  it's my first post in 2018 and I would be reviewing the classic book " The Alchemist " by Paulo coelho. The Alchemist is an international bestseller which was first published in 1988 ( I wasn't even born then! ) and originally written in Portuguese, but has been translated into over 70 languages. It's one of the best selling books in history, a global phenomenon that has been read by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Will Smith, Julia Roberts and even President Clinton just to mention a few. It's a story about dreams, faith and courage we all have within to pursue our "Personal Legends". The book talks about the story of a Shepherd boy called Santiago from the south of Spain who loves to travel and left home in search of his dream, through his journey of travelling with his flock from one place to another, he encounters a gypsy woman and a king, they urged him to follow his dreams (personal legend) and leave th...

Born on a tuesday is a book that tackles modern Nigeria's extremely complex religious landscape with great insight, it shows the rise of Islamic extremism in Nigeria as experienced by a young man named DANTALA  which literally means "born on a tuesday ". The story is set in far North Western Nigeria, and told from dantala perspective. Born on a Tuesday opens following a gang of street boys who are hanging in the streets and getting up to non good. They spend time smoking, pillaging, Committing random acts of violence. During the elections, the boys were paid by the small party to cause trouble, when their attempt to burn down the opposition local headquarters ends in disaster, dantala alias ahmad runs for his dear life leaving his best friend behind. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him food, shelter and guidance. Before long, dantala becomes a favoured apprentice to the mosque sheik due to his modest nature. During his stay at the mosque, dantala saw ...

  let's talk about the bestseller author Tess Gerritsen "FICTION QUEEN"  books Gravity and The Silent girl. GRAVITY is a story about a plague - like epidemic is on a space station, where a team of six astronauts suddenly found themselves threatened by a virulent Bio hazard. Victims first register a headache, followed by stomach pains, then their eyes turn blood red. Finally, they convulsed so violently that they literally bash themselves apart. The most Frightening part is what spills out of their bodies - green egg filled globules. Astronaut Emma Watson, the station's onboard doctor struggles to fight the outbreak while her colleagues die one by one. The first Astronaut to get sick was a Japanese, he was sent down to earth via space shuttle, but dead on arrival. The military physicians discovered a deadly mutant - a creature that's part human, part frog and part mouse in the eggs that spills from the dead Japanese Astronaut body. The contamination was ...

The rave online about this book made me buy it months back and I was not disappointed. The story line is fictional and predictable but also it is entertaining. It revolves around the life of a lagos "big girl" Zuri and her 4 friends. The finance part of the book was so on point and I learnt a lot about investing, types of income, networking and so much more. Arese also included pratical exercises at the end of every chapter and for me I feel smart money woman speaks finance in an everyday layman's language because the advices are sound and easily achieve able. Overall , the smart money is a pretty good read and I would rate it an 8/10. I would also recommend this book because it's a must read. Have you read the book??? Let me know by dropping your comments below.

Ayobami Adebayo's "Stay With Me" is a beautiful book with a lovely jacket that captures the author's beautiful writing. It is a book set in the 1980's ,a period of political tumulut in Nigeria, moving on through 2008. The two narrators in the book "Stay With Me" are Yejide and her husband  Akin hope to pass the stories (folk tales) they remembered when they were children to their own offspring. "Stay With Me" revolves around series of secrets Akin gas kept from his wife and the terrible consequences those secrets  will have on their marriage and in the life of Akin's brother Dotun. Akin tells us that he loved Yejide from the moment he set his eyes on her, but four years of childlessness reversed his belief that love conquers all even if the burden is too much. When they got married, both Yejide and Akin said no to polygamy but after several years of childlessness, their relatives insisted that Akin take a second wife. Yejide be...

When one reads Purple Hibiscus for the first time, one might easily conclude that it's a sad story, but for me it was an experience of story telling heaven. The first thing one notices about Chimamanda Adichie is her style and her language, it's accessible , sophisticated and structure is well executed. The story is told in the fifteen years old voice of Kambili, readers are introduced to her brother jaja, her papa and mama. It is clear from the outset that all is not well in their household. It's a touching and heart rending story about the traumatic moments of a wealthy Nigerian family as it gradually breaks up, the cruel abuses of a father turned callous by a brand of catholicism. The victims survived, however rescued by the love that binds the children to their mother and the mother to her children. On the other hand, the woman next door is a funny novel by yewande omotoso, it is  about  2 old and very opinionated n eighbours living in katterijn, a wealthy su...