Author: Lwile the Leo

Lwile is a writer from Nairobi, Kenya who is passionate about Mental Health, books and Taylor Swift.

Mental Health Monday: Attention. Belonging. Consequences. Depth.

April 7th is World Health Day, a global health awareness day celebrated every year under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: Attention. Belonging. Consequences. Depth.

The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson

Book 9/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsAll her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who … Continue reading The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

Book 8/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsAround the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is … Continue reading Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

Raha Jipe Mwenyewe

March 20 is the International Day of Happiness. The day was conceptualized and founded by philanthropist, activist, statesman, and prominent United Nations special advisor Jayme Illien to inspire, mobilize, and advance the global happiness movement. Since 2013, the United Nations has celebrated the International Day of Happiness as a way to recognise the importance of … Continue reading Raha Jipe Mwenyewe

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Book 7/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsMeet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the … Continue reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror

I do not know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way in 2024 I stopped seeing myself in the woman in the mirror. The About Me section on the blog, which I wrote in August 2018 before launching Lwile the Leo on the last day of Leo season, reads: In very many ways … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Book 5/30. My rating: 1 of 5 starsAlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, … Continue reading Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

Book 4/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsI started reading a romance novel for book 4 (IYKYK 😌) of my reading challenge on Valentine’s Day because Val’s Day 🥰Macy is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new paediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep … Continue reading Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren