Jun 7What to Read Next? Try Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid!I’m beginning to fall in love with Taylor Jenkins Reid. I don’t know how she does it. I don’t know how a person can be so perfect with words that she weaves them into beautiful, perfect stories that prick your heart with many different emotions. Sometimes, her story feels like…Writing4 min read
May 21This Happened To Me!Here's my experience. I wrote a prose poem once in 2020 and thought it was my best piece. I loved it. I felt I did a good job with it. I thought it was laced with emotion, and I felt I'd gotten my masterpiece. I was eager to share it…Writing4 min read
May 7Dealing with blank pages — Let’s see if this helps youIt’s another day again. And you are seated before your PC, ready to pour out those ideas you’ve been harbouring for days now. "Time to deal with the blank pages." You mutter. You sit erect and flex your fingers, ready to type away. You stare at the keyboards, wondering which…Writing4 min read
May 4Would you rather read a book filled with errors or read a book with two pages missing at the climax?Phew… that is a difficult one. Umm… This feels like I’m sitting in the front roll of my secondary school’s hall, taking yet another physics test. That's an exaggeration, but still. Lol. Imagine reading a James Patterson novel and you get to the part where the mastermind is about to…Books3 min read
Apr 27So, I'm done with Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku.Okay, technically not done, done, but I’m through with it. I gave up on it. I didn't want to, but it wasn't giving me what I was expecting. So, I stopped at story 6 and read no further. I'm not sure what I was expecting since the title says Nearly…Writing4 min read
Apr 26"Fictions Are NOT Real!" You Think So?I hear people make this statement all the time over and over again. And, sometimes, l really don’t know how to feel about that. Nothing is new under the sun. Writers don't just sit and imagine everything that they write. They undergo vigorous research. Intense research. …Writing3 min read
Apr 18Musings on a Rainy NightPutting two and two together to make your life work out just the way you envision it isn't reciting the alphabet, is it? I mean, even reciting the alphabet isn't as easy as we make it to be. A B C is not as easy as A B C. …Life3 min read
Apr 15Op-Ed: Domestic ViolenceFor almost a week now, if not a week, the internet has been in a rage concerning the death of Osinachi, a Nigerian gospel artist, due to domestic violence. …Opinion5 min read
Apr 12The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: My Honest Review.Scrolling through Facebook, and subconsciously searching for recommendations from the Community of Readers and Book Recommendations groups I joined, is one of the pleasures of life for me. I love the idea of stacking my library, even though I know I would come nowhere close to reading them all in…Books6 min read
