The expression hindsight is 20/20 is a cliché with good reason. Retrospectively, I can see clearly that the cracks in the happiness I finally found in 2019 (after chasing it my whole damn life) started to show in 2020 before it all came crashing down in 2021. 2019 was the best year of my life … Continue reading Cracks
Author: Lwile the Leo
Lwile is a writer from Nairobi, Kenya who is passionate about Mental Health, books and Taylor Swift.
Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
Book 22/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsIn the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man.Hook, Line, and Sinker is book two in the Bellinger Sisters duology and I was … Continue reading Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
AWOL
Adjective (military): absent without official leave but without intent to desert. Two years ago I went absent without official leave from Lwile the Leo. On May 4, 2021 at 13.31 hours I put up my usual Mental Health Awareness Month post before handing over to the guest post writers. And unbeknownst to me and you … Continue reading AWOL
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Book 21/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsIt Happened One Summer is a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com from Tessa Bailey about a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she does not … Continue reading It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Book 20/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Let it be said about the Eras Tour, we’re tricksy. That’s what we are. We enjoy a good, healthy setlist hijinks. That is what my ABSOLUTE FAVE Taylor Swift had to say about her current RECORD-BREAKING AF tour, but it could also be said about The Pillars … Continue reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Art Of Deception by Nora Roberts
Book 19/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsReading a Nora Roberts novel is the bookish equivalent of eating one of my favourite comfort foods—perhaps a thin crust seafood pizza with extra mushrooms and cheese made in a wood-fired brick oven at an Italian restaurant, preferably paired with a glass of Shiraz. If I could bottle … Continue reading The Art Of Deception by Nora Roberts
A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
Book 18/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsKaren Krupp was home making dinner for her husband. She was expecting him any second. The phone rang—it was the call she hoped she'd never get. She jumped in her car and raced to a neighborhood she thought she'd never visit. She peered into the dark, deserted building … Continue reading A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Book 17/30. My rating: 1 of 5 stars535.That is the number of days I went without reading a 1 star book. The last time I rated a book 1 star was on October 14, 2021 when I finished reading Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. I went all of 2022 without reading a 1 star book … Continue reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Book 16/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsYoung Adult is my second favourite genre (after Romance) but I went into this with a 50-50 mix of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because I LOVE YA and trepidation because I was still nursing a book hangover from the Six of Crows duology and was worried the hangover … Continue reading Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Book 15/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsOn December 29, 2022 at the Chasing Paper Book Club inaugural in-person review, I met a few African women who all mentioned that they did not enjoy The Sex Lives of African Women as much as they thought they would. The general consensus was that the essays were … Continue reading The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
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