4 versions of a woman as anchor in time and space in Sharon Dodoa Otoo’s Adas Raum
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Zadie Smith’s Swing Time
I liked, but did not love this book.The book begins with failure. Or “my humiliation” as the narrator, a young woman, puts it. The young woman has been sent back to London by some unknown employer. She is hiding in considerable affluence and is tasked with avoiding the public, not to escalate a situation. From …
A good book, he concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound. […] He believed books had an aura that protected him, …
God and Love are one. You can’t talk to me about God and not show me love, That will create one hell of a conversation. Te’ V. Smith (via tevsmith)