vumaisbooked
(She/her). 20-something. Local library lover. AfricanLit and AusLit reader 🦦 “A peasant who reads is a prince in waiting” - Walter Mosley. 🦋🪷🫁✨🧳🪺🎨🍒🫧🫀 “My taste” = my 2025 top 5.
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October 2026
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I’ve often heard people remark that the only DV survivor people care to listen to is a dead one. For the 20,540 Zambian women, and the many more accumulated since this novel was completed - enough is enough 💔.
’In my next life, I am coming as a man. It will be me to make others jump, look around the room confused. I will be the one to blame my violence on the alcohol and expect my wife to forgive. In that life, I won't have to wonder if I should confide my latest humiliation to my best friend, and then resent her pity. And if he tries me again, I swear, I will leave this time. I don't care about Mama's "What will people say?”’
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw
Seeing the average rating for this like 
The premise is premising so I’m morbidly curious to assess this for myself. Isn’t the blurb just so alluring?
vumaisbooked commented...
Thank you all for your comments 🫀🥰 I’m liking them all because I’m reaching my mental capacity to comment but I appreciate the methods and I’m excited to implement and see how it lands!
I’ve noticed that I’ll start reading a non fiction book with a lot of excitement. I’ll get into a few chapters and struggle to finish physically reading it and either swap to an audio or leave it paused and unpaused for months/years. For context, I do enjoy nonfiction and I want to read more non fiction books. I’m also reading books and topics I enjoy so enjoyment is not an issue whatsoever.
I also take longer to read non fiction than fiction books with some books (even ones I loved) taking multiple years to finish. I don’t like this at all. It’s very demotivating and it puts me in a reading slump.
All of his to ask: Does anyone have strategies for staying in non fiction books and finishing them within a set time (e.g. no more than a month or 2)?
