Hello friends..........how have you been and I hope your week is going great?! I am so glad I finally get to post about my experience at ART X exhibition 2017 which took place at the civic center, Victoria island lagos between 3rd - 5th November. I attended the last exhibition that took place on the 5th and my first stop was the colouring bus which was placed out, I left my mark on the bus by signing my signature.  My next stop was the ground floor (indoor) where I took pictures at the ART X backdrop, from there I proceeded to the first level where artworks were displayed.  Lemi Ghariokwu's iconic record sleeves designed for flea kuti and the Ghana pesewa coins artwork by Yaw Owusu were both intriguing and breathtaking respectively.      Fela record sleeves by lemi Ghariokwu's  Pesewa coins artwork by Yaw Owusu This photographic artwork is so enthralling  At lakin ogunbawo ...

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 ...

Hello darlings, how have you been and how's the month of November treating you?!   I'm having a good month with so much events to attend and guess what?!?   I would be sharing all the buzz at the just concluded GTBank fashion weekend. I know this is a break from the norm as I only blog about books review  and books recommendation but that's all going to change as I have decided to re- structure the blog and I am changing its niche from just a books blog to a books and lifestyle blog; I would  be sharing tiny bits of activities am into as a bookaholic.......okay enough said already, now back to the fashion weekend, I attended day 1 of it with biba of royalbiba.com and it was an alluring experience for me as I was able to network and make new friends, and I attended a master class by creative and celebrity photographer TY Bello which was interesting. The setup was nice and there was so many props to take pictures with and so many colourful backdrops to...

  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...