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I've pre-read these for you so you don't waste your time. Am through with fiction for a bit so these are mainly non-fiction - especially history and science (both with the "popular" prefix ie. not too hard). PLEASE MAKE SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENT BOX!!

Diamond Dust by Anita Desai

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- September 09, 2018

Nope.

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Really sorry. All well written stories. Some more fragmentary. Nothing wrong with them. Netflix is better.

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Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

- July 26, 2018

It's well written enough but I don't think I'd trouble you with this one. It's very short and quite beautifully written. It's about an au pair's first foray into life away from her mother, so like, who cares? Some interesting class / privelege insights, and the narrator is complex and often unlikeable.

Edward IV by Hannes Kleineke

- September 09, 2018

Only read this if you are a History Geek, in which case you will enjoy it v much. Shakespeare didn't call any of his plays Edward IV. He wrote about Henry VI and Richard III on either side. Is that why Ed IV is slightly shadowy? More famous are his sons (the princes in the tower) his brother (Richard III) his grandson (Henry VIII) great granddaughter (Elizabeth 1) and cousin Warwick the Kingmaker. But Edward himself is brilliant and well worth the attention.

Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

- December 23, 2018

Yes. Definitely. I'd heard of Biafra, I thought it was about famine. Turns out that famine was a deliberate war strategy to starve a section of what is now Nigeria into submission. This is the story. I'm aware it pretty much followed rich Biafrans, with some visits to camps of starving people, rather than having its protagonists suffer the full event. Even so, worth knowing, important stuff. Dreadful film btw.