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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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Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction
Gothic Literature
Justice for All
My Taste
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
Always Another Country
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
How to Say Babylon
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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They Bloom at Night
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The Gilda Stories
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  • Sep 18, 2026
    The Shipikisha Club
    The Shipikisha ClubMubanga Kalimamukwento
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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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?”’

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    Seeing the average rating for this like alt text

    The premise is premising so I’m morbidly curious to assess this for myself. Isn’t the blurb just so alluring?

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    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!

  • Nonfiction books - how to be a better reader

    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)?

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