What an incredible story, and what a treat to read it as a 29 year old who just moved to Oxford!
I can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy, they're already in the post 👌
📙#39/100 Issue 233 of the @parisreview
It's great to read ~250 pages of words by people I've never heard of, and to be introduced to ideas and works outside my usual scope.
I particularly enjoyed 'Violets' by @Bud_Smith & 'The Juggler's Wife' by Emily Hunt Kivel in issue 233.
May 15, 2020 • 168 tweets • 74 min read
#28 'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This book asks profound questions about 'home', about what cultures expect - or demand - of people born into or outside of them, and how the backdrops of our lives can define the things we value, notice, and think about most.
#29 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien
A perfect adventure with gold, dragons, goblins, wizards, magic, peril, treasure, and morals. I wish I'd had this read to me as a kid because the various songs and scrapes lend themselves perfectly to that.
