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Finding joy finishing one 📖 at a time. Reads by @bowie Let's talk books & more books!

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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:50

Americanah & You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love

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It's a pretty long book and you get to see them through so many different phases. The two main characters, you get to know them from their teens all the way into adulthood. I also really appreciated Adi Cheese examination of blackness in both a US and African context, but overall I definitely finished the book, feeling a little disappointed. I wish the plot was a bit tighter, and in the end I didn't really feel like the characters changed as significantly as I would have liked

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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:44

Feel the same and then again I do not

And in retrospect, I'm thinking to myself, no. Oh my gosh. It's Chuma Manda. Ngozi Ditchi. Oh, no, it's amazing. It's amazing. You got to read Americana. You've got to read Americana, and I've just somewhere gone that way. I started off with Madam Coldhearted, and I kind of I don't even know what to Madam. I don't know. She's lying or whatever you want to call it. But I did like her
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:18

@bookishpodcast When the craft is good, but you still don't feel it!

I'm still really glad I read it. There's so much about it that I think is excellent. Just overall, it didn't hit like I wanted it to. I am curious to read some of your short stories and other work because I'm curious if it'll have the same kind of vibe and sort of the narrative voice thing that I pointed out, or maybe it'll be really stylistically different. I guess we'll see. And lastly, I responded to you on Instagram with the email
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:37

@bowie

Anyway, back to Americana. I definitely think it's worth the read, but you're absolutely right about the ending and all of that. And like I said, it was a little bit of book peer pressure for me to really love the book, and I liked the book. It's just one of those things. Yeah, I do want to read her other books and her other works, and I can't think of anything else
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