Adeola Ogunwole

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Cleopatra

A Life

Stacy Schiff

🔥95

09 August 2023

Remarkable, in that you can tell how more dimensional Cleopatra is treated when she is described by a woman. Truly an informative, compelling biography that gives more meaning and depth to an already meaningful and deep persona.

Searching for Sunday

Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Rachel Held Evans

😐56

09 August 2023

Easy read but easy meaning. What makes church is showing up. Not the most compelling but interesting if you enjoy first person accounts.

Blue Like Jazz

Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Donald Miller

👌65

09 August 2023

A timeless reminder of the “roots of Christianity”. Many similar books in this vein - people struggling to make religion more human rather than dogmatic. Finding that purpose in relatively small communities and 1:1 interactions

Home

Toni Morrison

🔥100

09 August 2023

Perfection by default. In reality, a heartbreaking account of what it must feel like to give your life for a country that doesn’t value that life.

Jazz

Toni Morrison

🔥100

09 August 2023

By default, perfection. In reality, a breathtaking and truly special look at the Harlem Renaissance without the white gaze

Americanah

Roman

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

🔥100

09 August 2023

Probably one of the best authors of her generation. An exacting, personal, perfect account of what it means to be of two worlds at the same time.

Midnight's Children

A Novel

Salman Rushdie

💖92

09 August 2023

I am not Southasian so I cannot speak to the accuracy, but the magical realism approach to the historical account of Indian independence is compelling. Read if nothing more than the poetry of the words.

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

🔥100

09 August 2023

Masterful. Should be required reading.

Love Does

Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Bob Goff

👎23

09 August 2023

A too simplistic account of modern christian individual accountability. All positive, no realism.

The Alchemy of Finance

George Soros

🤩86

09 August 2023

Surprisingly personal, almost like a journal. The rare intersection of finance and philosophy that doesn’t feel like an attempt and pure boasting and ranting about the beauty of capitalism

Want

A Novel

Lynn Steger Strong

👌73

09 August 2023

The exhaustion of being a woman in all it’s minute insecurities

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

🔥100

09 August 2023

The sequel is just as good. A satisfying conclusion that we all hope can happen.

Parable of the Sower