Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Genre - Novel
Available in paperback, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Synopsis
A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe," Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, and the chilling violence that followed.
With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and they must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.
Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Genre - Fiction, Novel
Available in paperback, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt, a University professor, whose house is noisy and full of laughter. There, Kambili and her brother discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from their world and, in time, give rise to devotion and defiance that reveal themselves in profound and unexpected ways. This is a book about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred, between the old gods and the new.
"At once the portrait of a country and a family, of terrible choices and the tremulous pleasure of an odd, rare purple hibiscus blooming amid a conforming sea of red ones" — San Francisco Chronicle
Now with a review like that, I just want to go out and buy the book already. I love reading about choices people make and consequences, it is like gaining the experiences without feeling the pain. I hope that doesn't sound too weird? Lol.... Mountains Of The Moon by I.J. Kay
Genre - Fiction
Available in paperback, Kindle
"A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past. Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, Mountains of the Moon is the tragic account of a broken life, but, against all expectation, it amounts to something utterly beautiful."
A story about overcoming odds, i added this to my list when i came across it on Amazon and its rated 5 stars too. Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Genre - Fiction, Novel
Available in Hardcover, Goodreads
Synopsis
"Murder at the Vicarage" marks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female detective, Miss Jane Marple. With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, the magistrate whom everyone in town hates, has been shot through the head. No one heard the shot. There are no leads. Yet, everyone surrounding the vicarage seems to have a reason to want the Colonel dead. It is a race against the clock as Miss Marple sets out on the twisted trail of the mysterious killer without so much as a bit of help from the local police."
This isn't exactly a new book, in fact its old, first published in 2006, but its the beginning of the 'Miss Marple' character series and having read a few of the sequels(Body In The Library,and A Murder Is Announced) I've always wanted to go back to see how it started. Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson
Genre - Fiction, Novel
Available in hardcover, Goodreads
Synopsis
Kill Alex Cross is faster, more exciting, and more tightly wound than any Alex Cross thriller James Patterson has ever written!
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.
A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Cross discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes – one that may alter the fate of the entire country.
Trying to keep up with James Patterson is just not possible and I gave up but now that Tyler Perry is playing Alex Cross,(I think that's just awesome by the way, never mind that so many people have their reservations about Tyler Perry being such a hard guy) I can't wait to pick this and catch up.
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