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... out! Thanks for the recommendations, this time I don't even feel compelled to run to the bookstore... except of course for Half of a Yellow Sun ;)
Why Women Should Rule the World - Dee Dee Myers ****
In this book Dee Dee Myers uses scientific facts and studies as well as personal ...
... to her speak! I, too, much prefer a novel, but now I'm going to have to request this collection. I've already read Half of a Yellow Sun and would highly recommend it.
... Thing Around your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *****
I want to immediately go out and pick up Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun now! I am not usually a fan of short story collections, I find it hard to get in to the stories or the characters in so few pages. This collection was ...
... of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Nonfiction: The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins
September
Fiction: Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nonfiction: Dangerous Games by Margaret MacMillan
October
Fiction: The Amateur Spy by Dan Fesperman
No ...
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Which is what I'm doing with Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife, and am really enjoying it. Others tbr in the category are Half of a Yellow Sun (merely long-ish, and should be terrific); Something Happened (I loved Catch 22 but it was not an easy read); The Charm School (DeMille is one of ...
... book, but once engrossed, I really enjoy the extended stay. Though 5 in the two months ahead may be pushing it :))
* Half of a Yellow Sun
** American Wife, Something Happened, The Charm School
*** The Pillars of the Earth (ok, I may be swapping this one out to 2010!)
et ...
... by Andrea Levy *****
25. City of Thieves by David Benioff ****
26. Shadow Country by Peter Matthiesson *****
27. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie ****
28. The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville *****
29. A Death in the Family by James Agee ****
30. Telex From Cuba ...
... by Andrea Levy *****
25. City of Thieves by David Benioff ****
26. Shadow Country by Peter Matthiesson *****
27. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie ****
28. The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville *****
29. A Death in the Family by James Agee ****
30. Telex From Cuba ...
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More Twisted
Coffin Dancer
Mrs. Miniver
Peony in Love
Under the Skin
When We Were Orphans
The Bell Jar
Half of a Yellow Sun
All for $9 plus tax.
New List: 1-500
4 Half of a yellow sun on Mount TBR
6 The inheritance of loss on Mount TBR
11 A short history of tractors in Ukrainian
13 The Accidental
16 Small island
28 The Successor
30 The namesake on Mount TBR
35 Snow
44 The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay on ...
... progress 9/29/2009
3 Foreign settings: Taking place outside USA, bonus points if written by a native author
1 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria - bonus) 9/13/2009 9/22/2009
2 - Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - scheduled
4 Historic ...
... urple
Laughing Out Loud
Category complete!
Long Books (I modified this to be >400pp)
American Wife
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Charm School
TBA
TBA
(maybe Inkheart and/or Something Happened and/or The Pillars of the Earth)
Artist Dates
TBA
Nonfic ...
"A" Book:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Category #3- foreign settings.
This is an excellent book that tells of the Biafran War in Nigeria in the late 1960's. Told from the point of view of the defeated Biafran's - the ethnic Igbo people - it manages to convey the ...
Book #109
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is the powerfully told story of the Biafran War in Nigeria in the late 1960's. Following its independence from Britian in 1960, the different ethnic groups in Nigeria began experiencing more and more conflict among ...
"A" Book
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Category #3 foreign settings (Nigeria, bonus for native author)
This is the powerfully told story of the Biafran War in Nigeria in the late 1960's. Following its independence from Britian in 1960, the different ethnic groups ...
... ce
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur - Daoud Hari :-( touchstone
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What is the What - David Eggers
A Lucky Child - Thomas Buergenthal
My Guilty Pleasures :
The Glass Castle - Je ...
... nonfiction this year --
it looks like there are some really interesting books recommended though, and some, like the Half of a yellow sun and other Ngugi wa thiong'o books are on my bookmooch wishlist anyway. another thread I've read for suggestions is charbutton's african summer, ...
... Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
124. Silence by Shusako Endo
125. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
126. Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It's great that the more recent edition has such an international flavour about it - they're really my kind of books.
Umm, have I killed the thread? How about Half of a Yellow Sun ?
... is 9/9/09, so I will plan to begin the alphabetic challenge on 9/10/09. However, I've already ordered my first two books (Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The Judas Field by Howard Bahr) so I might decide not to wait!
... B Flat, De Niro's Game, Mister Pip, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, and because I can't stick to limits - no 11 is Half of a Yellow Sun .
... wa Thiong'o - Kenya
4. Chaka by Thomas Mofolo - Lesotho
5. Sleepwalking land by Mia Couto - Mozambique
6. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Nigeria
7. Xala by Ousmane Sembène - Senegal
8. From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah - Somalia
9. Cry ...
I think I'll take Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from DQ50's library because it's been on my wish list at pbs for some little time now.
... and the various Swedish crime novels, and novels from faraway countries which are not translated like The Kite Runner and Half of a Yellow Sun help to 'normalize' translations and open readers up to reading books like Out Stealing Horses or This Blinding Absence of Light or The Elegance ...
Where in the World? books whose setting is in another country
1.Half a Yellow Sun
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Bonus:
... to be funny... apparently
Mother's Milk
Carry Me Down
The Inheritance of Loss Shouldn't have won the Booker
Half a Yellow Sun
Season of Migration to the North Excellent book about obsession
... McCracken
8. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
10. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
12. The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
13. Lost Boy ...
... Haddon
* In the woods - Tana French
***** To Be Read List *****
* Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
* Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
... Bel Canto. I am also going to keep watch for Small Island and Purple Hibiscus. I also want to read her other work Half of a Yellow Sun . Did you read that one?
Thanks for recommending Eucalyptus. I have it now, and will start it very soon.
What did you think of Half of a Yellow Sun ? I really like books like this in which I get my history within a more personal story. So discouraging to see the connections with the current conflict in Darfur/Sudan. I'm going to eventually read The Idea of Perfection. I'll have to check out Tele ...
... I'd choose The Linnet Bird: A Novel since it's been on my Mount TBR for far too long. By the way great choice on Half a Yellow Sun great book imho.
LizzieD - Music and Silence since I've heard good things about this and it's been on my wishlist for a while. Also it has nothing to ...
I would like to choose Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi from KimB's library. It's on my wishlist and have heard many good things about it.
... and my mother-in-law each month. I even accosted my neighbour the other day in my driveway with a couple of books for her. Half of a Yellow Sun and Water For Elephants. Both good books.
My friends have started asking me out to dinner only once a month, because they know I'm going to turn up ...
... but if I were to make a suggestion based on what little I know (and like) about you, I would say that you would most enjoy Half of a Yellow Sun . And, if you go back a teensy bit further: The Help is in my Top Five so far this year--and it's about jobs, right up your alley! :-)
Half a Yellow Sun
... like and agree with all the comments you've included from Ignore Everybody so I'll have to check it out.
I just read Half a Yellow Sun last week and have yet to write any comments on my own thread about it. I was just out of high school and planning on getting married when Biafra was ...
I've finished Half of a Yellow Sun , I had a little trouble getting into it at first, but I soon found it captivating.
45. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
-Sometimes when I read a book that gets alot of buzz I set expectations high and wind up being disappointed. It took me a few chapters to really get into this book, but I certainly was not let down. It's excellent.
... discussion, I've got 8 still to read!
Of the five read, I've listed them in order of favourites
Small Island
Half of a yellow sun
Fugitive Pieces
The Road Home
The Idea of Perfection - I didn't finish this Australian novel, the characters were grating on my nerves. I'll ...
#166: I did not love Half a Yellow Sun , although I liked it quite a lot, so I will give the short stories a try. Thanks for the recommendation, Rebecca!
... (children's) by Cornelia Funke
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
>400pp
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
... Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As many of you know, I became a big fan of Adichie when I read her Half of a Yellow Sun , so I was eager to read her latest book, a collection of short stories. Because these are short stories, they lack the interwoven strands of her novel, ...
... Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As many of you know, I became a big fan of Adichie when I read her Half of a Yellow Sun , so I was eager to read her latest book, a collection of short stories. Because these are short stories, they lack the interwoven strands of her novel, ...
... so I took a look at the whole lot together. Idea of Perfection and Home came out tops (5 stars), followed closely by Half of a Yellow Sun (4.5). Small Island is in the "upper middle," one of 5 books I rated 4 stars. Overall these books have been above average reads !
Bonnie and cmt: Half of a Yellow Sun - what can I say?
I guess we have all heard of Biafra. But I'm sure there are many, many people out there who know nothing of its history, beyond war and starvation. This story tells us so much about how the country developed, why war was inevitable and how ...
I finished Half of a Yellow Sun today. What a great story - and great storyteller! I was talking to my husband about it tonight and telling him that I felt it increased my compassion for humanity, in general. We went to a fair/festival tonight and I found I had more patience than usual with ...
... by Andrea Levy. (And I ditched The Vintner's Luck after 50 pages.) I'm hoping to get to either Purple Hibiscus or Half a Yellow Sun and The Idea of Perfection and The Household Guide to Dying are also at the top of Mt TBR.
It's my first Orange July, I got a bit carried away.
A ...
Still working on Half of a Yellow Sun . I've also started 1984,which I know I read in high school. I don't remember much besides the main theme.
Loved that book! I told myself I was going to read Half a Yellow Sun this month for OJ (it's been sitting on my shelf since January) but I keep avoiding it. Tell me something that you're thinking right now about what you're reading, Judy. I need to get more curious about it.
Can't tell if you're kidding me or not, but in case you're serious, and for those who weren't around then, it was Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
SO past halfway now with book number 42 - Half of a Yellow Sun which is in my Orange Prize category. A beautiful book.
136. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Beautifully written story about rise and fall of Biafra as seen from the eyes of twin sisters with very different lives and the houseboy of one of the sisters. This was a great addition to the original list.
80. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This was a beautifully written book. Set in Nigeria during the formation of Biafra, we are swept up into the lives of twin sisters, very different people, who live through and survive war, hardship and famine in their new country. Then ...
I'm over halfway through Half of a Yellow Sun . I'm really enjoying it. When I think about it during the day, I feel like I'm remembering a movie that I'd been watching - or an experience that I had actually had (or had a friend tell me about). For those who have read it - for some reason, I ...
... Orange July was a good opportunity to finally read it. It was very good, although I don't think I liked it quite as much as Half of a Yellow Sun . The protagonist is Kambili, a young girl in Nigeria whose father is a well-known Catholic man, highly respected in the community for his piety and ...
Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (read 5 May 2007)
... I'm with you all the way on your evaluation of it.
I'm one of the (apparent) few who is not particularly a fan of Half a Yellow Sun . I thought it was an ok read, but I was annoyed at the soap-opera-ish story line involving the sisters/lovers/husbands.
Re Kate Atkinson--I agree with ...
I'm pleased your enjoying Half of a Yellow Sun . Not sure about general African non-fiction but I do know that the "Reading Globally Group" had an African theme read in Feb. This is one of the threads .
I'd be interested to hear if you ...
I went with Half of a Yellow Sun . You're right, KimB - it IS a different book from The Poisonwood Bible. It took me no time at all to get into it. I'm enjoying it so much that I took a look at her other book - Purple Hibiscus - at the bookstore last night. The only reason I didn't buy ...
... wonderful? I was really impressed with this young lady's writing. I think she has a great future ahead of her. I checked Half a Yellow Sun out at the library but then developed that vertigo and so....sadly it went back without being read. (dog-gone it)
Anyway, I am glad you enjoyed the book. ...
I have started Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi - so far, very good. It was an Orange Prize winner which I am reading to celebrate Orange July on the Girlybooks group. (By the way, the Girlybooks group isn't quite what the name makes one think - it's not a bunch of women ...
I read -- and loved -- Half of a Yellow Sun and I have Purple Hibiscus, but haven't gotten to it yet. I'm also looking forward to starting The Thing Around Your Neck soon.
Interesting comments about Adichie's two books. I read Half of a Yellow Sun first and thought it was an amazing book, especially for a young writer, so when I later read Purple Hibiscus I enjoyed it but was very aware of how much her writing advanced afterward. I thought Purple Hibiscus was ...
>156, 157 Mine, too! Although one cannot deny the merits of Half of a Yellow Sun as a second, more mature book by a young talent.
... Heart? Something like that... no that's not it. Anyway, I gave up on it.
I'm reading man books again but might pick up Half of a Yellow Sun for Orange July if I can get finished something else.
I'll add my recommendation to Half of a Yellow Sun . And no, wookiebender, it didn't win the Booker, so you're safe! ;-)
... The Little Friend which I found interminably boring. And it's the only one on your list I've read!
I'm leaning towards Half a Yellow Sun for one of my Orange July reads, because everyone (except Cariola!) loves it so much. (It didn't win the Booker, did it?)
... it, with the caution that it's not a light summer read.
Personally, I just couldn't get into the two Booker winners, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Inheritance of Loss. (I tend to prefer the longlist titles.) And La Cucina is on my list of worst books read.
Half of a Yellow Sun , eventhough it is also set in Africa it is a very different book to The Poisonwood Bible. Both are amongst my all time favourite books. I hope I haven't over sold it, but JolieLouise I dont think you will be disappointed with reading it.
ETA I'm another one who ...
I was pretty certain Half of a Yellow Sun would be the recommended book by most on Girlybooks. So many have mentioned how much they loved it. I might just go that way. I wasn't sure I wanted to go right back to Africa right away - but, hey, the experience in Africa with The Poisonwood Bible ...
... how much I want to read other books.
Now I have a choice to make:
I can continue reading about Africa and start Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
OR
I also have:
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (which hasn't been getting very good reviews from most of you)
Parad ...
... I'm glad you enjoyed Purple Hibiscus; I still can't decide (2 years on) but I think perhaps I liked it even more than Half of a Yellow Sun , just because it seemed more personal - a beautifully told story about Kambili, rather than A Big Novel About History, if you see what I mean.
>155 T ...
Thanks KimB for pointing out that I am currently reading an Orange 1001. Just like MKS1977 I am reading Half of a Yellow Sun .
I'm about halfway through Kafka on the Shore, and I just started Half of a Yellow Sun .
This thread is a great idea. I'm having a lot of fun following it.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1. Where did you get this book?
I got it from a Cheap Book place which recently opened a branch just down the road from me.
2. How much did it cost?
$5
3. Why ...
Now reading, and enjoying, Half of a Yellow Sun .
... know are wonderful, and hope you find wonderful too.
As for my personal Orange July quest - I am about halfway through Half of a Yellow Sun . It is so far as good as I have heard.
... ight.)
Top on my list to read this month are: Gilgamesh: A Novel, What I Loved, Fugitive Pieces, Purple Hibiscus, Half a Yellow Sun , The Idea of Perfection, Brick Lane, The Vintner's Luck...
Although it's not perfect: The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith was very ...
... rness
Of those that I've read that I wouldn't particularly recommend:
The Inheritance of Loss
The Autograph Man
Half a Yellow Sun
On Beauty
Case Histories
The Great Fire
A Child's Book of Crime
The Weight of Water
The Poisonwood Bible
... whereas I look forward to (one day!) re-reading Bel Canto .
Out of the winners, I have on Mt TBR, The Road Home, Half of a Yellow Sun , The Idea of Perfection, and Fugitive Pieces. I'll be starting with Joan London's Gilgamesh however.
... read 9 of the O.P. winners. If I had to choose just one as my favorite, it would be Home, closely followed by Half Of A Yellow Sun .
I have no idea how Small Island was chosen as the Orange of the Oranges. I'll share my thoughts after I read it in July.
ETA: That would be ...
... ers:
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun is, in my opinion, streets ahead of the other three, and also way ahead of all the others I've ...
... the year and now it is one of my all time favourite books.
I've read three of the winners, the best of the three would be Half of a Yellow Sun , it was quite a revelation. But I also thought Fugitive Pieces was a piece of amazing writing.
I couldn't finish The Idea of Perfection, the ...
I'll nudge Purple Hibiscus, KimB! I really enjoyed it. Adichie's writing definitely matured in her next book (Half of a Yellow Sun ), but PH was quite moving.
I liked Small Island, Bel Canto, and The Stone Diaries, too. Read Brick Lane and White Teeth several years back and ...
... Atwood
69. The Hearts of Horses - Molly Gloss (7/09)
70. The Seven Sins of Memory - Daniel Schacter (7/09)
71. Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (7/19/09)
72. A Boy of Good Breeding - Miriam Toews (7/20/09)
73. Jim the Boy - Tony Earley (7/21/09)
74. The Good ...
... I can not believe that a publisher pandered to an author and let this book run to 700+ pages. What a waste!
About Half of a Yellow Sun : a dear friend loved it so I read it and had to pretend I loved it but in my heart I just thought it was an okay read, not incredible or life changing. ...
... but he's another acclaimed African author--maybe Death and the King's Horseman. Chimamanda Adichie's much-ballyhooed Half of a Yellow Sun might be one to try, too, though it didn't impress me too much.
... to take with me to the bookstore, of the Orange winners, shortlisted books, and longlisted books. The other day I bought Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which is spoken of very favorably on LT.
I also have (and have not yet read):
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolv ...
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* Mauritius
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Namibia
* Niger
* Nigeria: The Thing Around Your Neck, Half of a Yellow Sun , The Icarus Girl, No Longer at Ease
* Reunion
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Principe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierr ...
From Barnes and Noble on Friday:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
and
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Robert - my husband read Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal and loved it. He read passages to me that he thought were funny. We decided ...
... on my shelves the following Orange winners/short listed/long listed books, and I'll try to get to a few of them in July:
Half of a Yellow Sun
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
Oryx and Crake
Purple Hibiscus
Unless
The Idea of Perfection
Fugitive Pieces
What I Loved
...
... songs, tales, legends of the Carpathians by Stanislaw Vincenz
Space Demons by Gillian Rubinstein
#166 I have her Half of a yellow sun which I'll read eventually. I read the short story collection first because that was what most of her talk was about, focusing on her middle class ...
Just finished Half of a Yellow Sun which was just great.
Next up will be The Poisonwood Bible which coincidently is also set in Africa around the same time period.
... James Baldwin, posthumously.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? Sometimes, I think Half of a Yellow Sun could be well adapted... sometimes I have the urge to try to adapt it myself...
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
13) ...
>JolieLouise: I LOVED Half of a Yellow Sun - it's definitely my favorite read of the year, so far.
Last night I started The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates - My first Oates!
... make myself read some Orange books in July! Cool! I look forward to reading the comments in July. I've heard a lot about Half of a Yellow Sun , lately, and think that I'm going to have to check it out. Right now, though, I'm going to check out the books that you both mentioned as your ...
... is about the 2009 Prize .
My favourite so far of the winners is Half of a Yellow Sun . From the winners the only other ones I've read from cover to cover are The Road Home and Fugitive Pieces. Not a dud amongst these three. I tried ...
... nominees to read those months. Some of us devote the whole month to the Orange !
Some of my favorites: The Road Home, Half of a Yellow Sun , Bel Canto, The Secret River, Small Island, The Lizard Cage (new writer award) -- and those are just the winners! I've rarely rated any Orange ...
...
Just listened to The Bookshow on Radio National today. The interviewr was speaking to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author Half of a Yellow Sun at the SWF. Glad to see the festival attracts some very interesting international authors.
I imagine the interview will probably be put on pod-cast ...
... yet he will be the one to commit her cold blooded murder.
A book that I think stays with you.
Anyway, now I'm reading Half of a Yellow Sun from the new list. A story involving the Nigiria/Biafra war.
... 3 stars
12. Train to Pakistan by Singh 4 stars
13. The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta 4 1/2 stars
14. Half a Yellow Sun 3 stars
15. This Blinding Absence of Light by Jelloun 4 1/2 stars
16
... either. It's been on my wishlist forever, but I became ambivalent about reading it b/c I was told it's not as strong as Half of a Yellow Sun .
... a lot of attention in the UK, and it is definitely on my "must buy" list. It's not yet available in the US, right? Half of a Yellow Sun was great, and I haven't read Purple Hibiscus yet.
...
Adichie is definitely becoming one of my favorite writers. This is only the second work of hers I've read, the first being Half of a Yellow Sun which is phenomenal.
Beautiful prose...
... today and loved every page of it, certainly one of the best books I've read this year.
#133, enaid, I was a big fan of Half A Yellow Sun too, and Zoe Heller's The Believers is absolutely fantastic, even better than What Was She Thinking.
My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.
01. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (12/23/08)
02. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lin See (12/24/08)
03. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (12/26/08)
04. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (12/30/08)
05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08)
06. T ...
... your thread because you read so many good books as well! I wish I read as much as you do :)
So now I will try to review Half of a Yellow Sun .
I don't tend to read books set outside of North America and I'm not sure why. I'm a social worker and am very conscientious about diversity, but ...
... the books that are unique to the 2008 edition (and that I've read):
1. Call of the Wild
2. Pippi Longstocking
3. Half a Yellow Sun
4. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
I own a few more, and others are on my TBR list, so when I read them I'll update this list.
5. The Accidental
>124: Carmenere, I think you're right! I love being a part of this place.
I finished #30. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tonight. Wow. I am so tired and there is no way to write a quick review tonight (will be back tomorrow for one), but I know that I won't be ...
Yesterday I began Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - totally captivating! I'm loving the characters and all of the scenery so far.
... I am excited and interested to read his book.
I also have several other books on my TBR shelves, The power of one and half of a yellow sun , and purple hibiscus which I am looking forward to.
So: your turn! What have you read, what's good, what are you looking forward to? Perhaps ...
... Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Adichie (released June 16th)
I enjoyed this short story collection almost as much as Half of a Yellow Sun . In most of the stories, it's about Nigerian-Americans, each told with a fresh perspective and about a different subject-matter. Stories range from the ...
#177 I liked Half of a Yellow Sun too, but totally agree that it's less easygoing and generally not as good as Purple Hibiscus, which was in my top 5 of 2008.
#176 ~ I loved Half a Yellow Sun but I would agree, you would have to have some interest in the subject matter. I lent my book to a few people and no one cared for it but me! I am told her first novel Purple Hibiscus is a little bit easier/lighter ...
I am almost done with Candy Freak by ...
... the book. The narrator is the PI's dog, and the details about what goes on inside a dog's head are very cute.
I started Half of a Yellow Sun after reading the rave reviews on LT for the past couple of years. I really have no interest in the subject matter, but I figured I'd try it since I've ...
... Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
12. Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell
13. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
14. Half a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
16. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
17. Cat's Eye, M Atwood
18. Watchmen, ...
I definitely need to thank LT for introducing me to new books and authors. Among them:
Half a Yellow Sun
The Book Thief
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Short History of Nearly Everything and then all of Bill Bryson's books.
World War Z
Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
I'm ...
... It's fun, quirky, and fast.
And by Steve Martin; go figure!~!
And from the library of Teazle I have chosen Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie because I just read her novel The Purple Hibiscus and it was wonderful.
... Outlander - Gil Adamson (7/04/09)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo (7/08/09)
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (7/18/09)
The Flying Troutmans - Miriam Toews (7/30/09)
7. Coming-of-Age Novels or Autobiograph ...
#161: Half of a Yellow Sun , IMO, suffered too much from 'soap opera-ishness'. I think the book would have been better without all that.
39 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
I started off loving this one, but I have to confess I got a bit bored. I don't think there was enough fresh material in the novel to sustain it for that many pages. And I didn't feel as passionate towards the characters as I did to those in ...
39 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
I started off loving this one, but I have to confess I got a bit bored. I don't think there was enough fresh material in the novel to sustain it for that many pages. And I didn't feel as passionate towards the characters as I did to those in ...
... big, uplifting and comforting. No idea what though. Will think it over.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Half of a Yellow Sun
I'm a big Jim the Boy fan too. I also loved Half a Yellow Sun and have Purple Hibiscus in the TBR pile, so will read that soon.
I just finished A Son Called Gabriel which was pretty good, in parts, excellent. But it really needed to be edited down some. He goes on and on and on about ...
... apocalypse and/or nuclear war. So thank you. And have a great holiday :-)
I'm currently reading, and very much enjoying, Half of a Yellow Sun . I think Adichie is a genius.
Yes, thanks for posting this! I haven't gotten to read any of her books yet, but Half of a Yellow Sun is on my TBR list. I think I will definitely bump it up now!
I had a response avaland posted here, but rereading ... I've decided to delete. I don't think anyone will miss the post. It's recoverable, if anyone wants it back.
I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Nfozi Adicichie, a novel set in Africa during the 1960s when so many African nations attained independence from colonialism. This is a heart-wrenching story but also a great read. I heard about it from LT members who praised it.
I'd ...
... and then blossomed slowly but surely. By the end, I was mesmerized. Adichie is a great writer; she also wrote the amazing Half of a Yellow Sun , one of my favorites of 2008. Can't wait for her next one! (4/5)
#18--Right now Half a yellow sun seems the main thing out there and I don't have it yet but it's on the radar.
... I see you've already tagged Purple Hibiscus for your summer travels. Good choice. And it looks like you've already read Half of a Yellow Sun . So I'd also recommend Cry, the Beloved Country, a classic about South Africa.
In non-fiction, I see you've also tagged Season of Blood so you ...
... been on LT much. But I hauled several books into my house yesterday and today :-)
Yesterday
From a UK mooch: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From PBS: The Association by Bentley Little
Today
From BookMooch:
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Politic ...
... by Terese Svoboda
I'd also like to list what I read to completion in 2008:
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Half of a Yellow Sun
Water Street
I Feel Bad About My Neck
About Alice
Time Bandit
China Road
Inside the Red Mansion
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir ...
Glad to see you liked Half of a Yellow Sun . I was one of the legions that thought it was wonderful!
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Wow! Now I see what all those good comments and recommendations were about. An astounding novel about the Biafran War from the viewpoint of the Ibo people. This one will stay in my thoughts for some time.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Wow! Now I see what all those good comments and recommendations were about. An astounding novel about the Biafran War from the viewpoint of the Ibo people. This one will stay in my thoughts for some time.
34. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Wow! Now I see what all those good comments and recommendations were about. An astounding novel about the Biafran War from the viewpoint of the Ibo people. This one will stay in my thoughts for some time.
21. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Wow! Now I see what all those good comments and recommendations were about. An astounding novel about the Biafran War from the viewpoint of the Ibo people. This one will stay in my thoughts for some time.
#89 - I have read only one of Adichie's books, Half a Yellow Sun , and liked it OK, so I will give Purple Hibiscus a try as well. It goes without saying that Tropical Fish Tales from Entebbe is going on to the Continent. Any book absolutely loved has got to be tried!
... you have any other African authors on your challenge lists for this year?
So far only Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
But I plan to add Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Also have these Africa-based stories by non-African authors: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkn ...
Just left Nigeria and Half a yellow sun . Next stop Argentina
Just finished Half a yellow sun , which was my first African book and very good on. Am now reading Shakespeare's The Tempest
Need to find something to read for the plane on friday. When in Denmark I will try to find alot of the books that was once suggested to me here in GD
... hor?
I’m trying to reduce my mountain of unread books, and had a choice of this one, Cry, the Beloved Country, or Half of a Yellow Sun . Christiguc read the book recently and recommended it.
4. What cultures did your book deal with? Include race, religion, language, tribes, etc. ...
... Africa
2. Name the book and the author. Tell us something (brief) about the author. What does the book's title mean?
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The title refers to the national flag of Biafra, which contained half a sun. It is a story about twin sisters, their ...
... person recommending the book, it's the 'why' factor.
>10 yes, and rebeccanyc happens to be the one who got me to pull Half of a Yellow Sun from my TBR pile (I had read Adichie's first book) and I'm afraid I added to the hype.
I think there is hype with a small 'h' - the natural kind, ...
... Story of Edgar Sawtelle, On Beauty.
And, in still other cases, I've been known to hype books myself, most notoriously Half of a Yellow Sun .
What I really rely on is who recommends a book and why he or she recommends it -- that's one of the reasons I love LT.
... in the book were authentic).
The other two African books I read this month may be more like what you are referring to. Half a Yellow Sun dealt with the Biafran War; however, the half of the book that took place before the war read like a soap opera. This Blinding Absence of Light was ...
#92: I agree with your take on Half a Yellow Sun - to me it was more like a soap opera. I know there are a lot of people who enjoyed this book more than I did, but I would have much preferred to know more about the war than the soap opera shenanigans that comprise a good deal of the book. If I ...
14. Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006) 541 pp
I was a teenager during the Biafran War. I remember the photographs of the starving children, and wondering, "Why?"
This book does not answer that question, but it does immerse us in the lives of ordinary Biafrans living ...
... to change. Once started, this book is irresistible.
Recommended to those of you who have enjoyed By the Sea, Half of a Yellow Sun , Interpreter of Maladies . . .etc.
Just finished Half of a Yellow Sun which made it into Boxall version 2. Great book and one that will stay with me for some time. I knew very little about the Biafran/Nigerian civil war before reading this book.
...
Other books set in Africa that I have read are:
Whatever you do don't run - Botswana
The Camel bookmobile - Kenya
Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria
Left to Tell - Rwanda
... to change. Once started, this book is irresistible.
Recommended to those of you who have enjoyed By the Sea, Half of a Yellow Sun , Interpreter of Maladies . . .etc.
87: I read Half a Yellow Sun last year. I will be interested in seeing your thoughts on it, abw.
... as she earned a degree from the University of London.
I decided to stay in Nigeria and read the widely acclaimed Half a Yellow Sun , which is about the Biafra War. While I don't think it was particularly insightful about the causes and effects of the war, I don't regret reading it. Th ...
... that is because Emecheta's focus in the book is on the personal rather than the political.
I did immediately pick up Half a Yellow Sun , hoping to get some insight into the Biafra War. I will write about Half a Yellow Sun soon.
#29 nancy - I loved Half a Yellow Sun and your comments have me thinking about it again. I was going to say something more, but my thoughts tangled themselves up a bit. Adichie has an interesting mixture... story-telling and history... of maybe intellectualism and reality? It's difficult to put ...
... Saw the Oryx First
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
The Palace Walk Trilogy
I also immediately ran out and bought Half a Yellow Sun which I devoured and will post about soon
... rarely disappointed solely in the ending of a book, but The Secret Scripture was too good to warrant such a fate.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda AdichieThree sentence review:
Only naïve idealists celebrate the onset of a revolution. Suffering and ...
*screeching of tires* My plans for Half of a Yellow Sun are on hold for now ... since I opened Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, an arc that's due for review. It's set in Addis Ababa and written by an Ethiopian (now Californian) physician ... I'm 10% in (60pp) and it's flat-out fabulous; I ...
I'm in Biafra in Half a Yellow Sun when I'm not passing through the Sudan in Dark Star Safari.
... and February read for me.
Liked it, but..... I think I need to read the whole serie to judge it correctly.
Started Half of a yellow sun two days ago for my Reading Globally february read and yesterday I started Boy meets boy.
11. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
This novel describing of the lives of two sisters and the people who surround them as they try to survive the Biafran War is a knockout. It really manages to convey the horror and devastation of war -even one that is "justified" - without ...
Books from Africa
NIGERIA
The Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta 2/09
Half a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2/09
MOROCCO
This Blinding Absence of Light, Tahar Ben Jelloun 2/09
Requested for you lola
Is it ok to wait for it to arrive and send Half of a Yellow Sun with it?
I am racing around Nigeria absolutely terrified at the start of the Biafran war in Half of A Yellow Sun .
I'm reading Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. It also won the Orange Prize but in 2007. According to LT Common Knowledge, it also received the following awards: Beyond Margins in 2007, Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa in 2007, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award.
...
I just read a couple of pages of Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. I hope I love it as much as so many other folks on LT did.
I abandoned Out by Natsuo Kirino. I read about 200 pages or so, but it was just too damned bleak for me to continue. I paged through and skimmed ...
Love Half of a Yellow Sun . May I recommend other African women writers?
Tsitsi Dangarembga. Zimbabwean author, playwright & filmmaker. I would recommend her only novel, a bildungsroman, Nervous Conditions. I believe this won the Commonwealth Prize when it was published.
Buchi Emecheta. Nig ...
An easy decision for my first Reading Globally pick: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda N. Adichie. It's been in my TBRs for two years but I've kind of been saving it, having loved her debut, Purple Hibiscus.
I might get to Heart of Darkness during February, too.
I've just had a brief squiz at your fascinating jaunt around the world, particularly the African writers. After reading Half of a yellow sun I realised I should be reading much more from authors that continent.
... read:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
and I am currently working on Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Books with a connection to colour
1) Novel on Yellow Paper Stevie Smith
2) The Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
3) Half of a yellow Sun
4) the Black Powder war
5) salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday 31/3/9
6) Empire of Ivory Naomi Novik
7) the white Tiger
8) The Rose ...
#20 I'd love to mooch Half of a Yellow sun if no one else has requested it. Thanks, lunacat!
lola
I've got The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that I am going to put up soon, so if any people would like me to reserve it for them, let me know :)
I will send worldwide as long as you don't mind surface mail
I seem to be on a bit of a 1001 books kick right now too! I finished Half of a Yellow Sun yesterday and what a wonderful read it was. Set in the sixties, it follows five main characters through the lead up to and during the Biafran War (Nigerian Civil War). Very well written, illuminating, ...
i put down seven types of ambiguity by elliot perlman to read half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which i received for christmas and have been dying to read. this year, i plan on reading all of the books that are on the top of my wishlist and putting the others aside. ...
... so much richer for the love, laughter and camaraderie they share. This was a sweet and poignant read.
NIGERIA
Half of a Yellow Sun also by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This was Adichie’s second, more accomplished novel that received rave reviews on LT, so I won’t say much ...
Africa
Congo Kinshasa - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Nigeria - Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Americas
Canada - Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
Cuba - We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could ...
... The Writer's Desk are all excellent, enjoy!
Our 999 Challenges overlap on Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Half of a Yellow Sun and Outliers; and I’m thinking about The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Regarding drawing from your 50-book list -- I liked Gardens of Water but ...
... her when I was first tagging the book. Highly recommended.
Now I'm reading a quick man book and then, I think, will be Half a Yellow Sun for another stab at Orange January.
... been talking up Greene so much to them that Dad's decided he has to read one or two now!
I've got a copy *somewhere* of Half a Yellow Sun , and I've heard nothing but great praise. I must find it too...
Argh! So many books!!
Finished The Quiet American and thought it was a great read. Excellent book all round. Now I'm into Half of a Yellow Sun which is a 1001 bookring (from the updated list). Going by the first two chapters it should be a winner.
Edited to add that the second touchstone is not working atm. He ...
... it appears that it is linking up with Orange January. Recently finished 3 excellent books (although some were in December) Half of a Yellow Sun , Unless and Fugitive Pieces. I have a few others on Mount TBR such as White Teeth , The inheritance of Loss and The Poisonwood Bible, also ...
Half of a Yellow Sun ?
If not, "N"?
... waste of time: Terrorist by John Updike ties with Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions
almost abandoned half-way: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
abandoned for good: Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe (how come???)
can't believe this is considered a laureate's best ...
... Levy (Jamaica)
The Seasons of the Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia (Ghana)
Mosquito by Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria)
After You'd G ...
I'm another nudger for Half of a yellow sun . I would have nudged Fugitive Pieces, but I see that you have already read it. I'm only just up to the Ben bit, so it was interesting reading your impressions.
... will find something from the mountain range, probably Larry's Party. It's been there for ages. Ooh, didn't realise Half of a Yellow Sun and Girl with a Pearl Earring were Orange books too. Too much choice! Maybe not Larry's Party after all...I've seen too many raves on here for Hal ...
... Hester Lilly
10.The Slynx
FEBRUARY BOOKS
11. Boy A
12. Train to Pakistan
13. The Joys of Motherhood
14. Half a Yellow Sun
15. This Blinding Absence of Light
16. Family of Secrets
17. 2666
MARCH BOOKS
18. Poor Folk
19. Dark Star Safari
20. The Burning Book
...
... )
13. Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (5 of 5 stars)
12. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (3.5 of 5 stars)
11. Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie (4.5 of 5 stars)
January 2009
10. Not Quite What I Was Planning by Larry Smith (4 of 5 stars)
9. The Secret ...
... Tim Winton
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
There's a Bear in there (and he wants Swedish) by Merridy Eastman
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Other People's Diaries ...
... No, I did not. I also got:
Worried All the Time by David Anderegg
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren ...
I've snuck through a few more from the 1001 list since christmas.
I've finished reading half of a yellow sun a great book and I've started a bookring for it if anyone is interested in joining. Also have other bookrings going that are open on my A_musing in What Are You Reading Now? : Favorite 5 Fiction Reads of 2008 (Dec 29, 2008, 11:33am)
... Zusak
Close on, with 5:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
With 4, the first little pack behind the leaders:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Shadow of the Wind Carlo ...
... Murakami (Japan) (TBR)
5. Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana) (Completed 5 April)
6. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngzoi Adichie (Nigeria) (TBR)
7. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Mexico) (Completed 22 Jan)
8. The Reader by Bernhar ...
Two I can recommend:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about the rise and fall of Biafra (Nigeria).
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee about South Africa.
... success was giving my sister A Thousand Splendid Suns for her birthday (as well as The Memory Keeper's Daughter and Half a Yellow Sun ) Because my whole family ended up reading that one.
My family did not get me a single book! They never really have given me many books as gifts which ...
... left over from July!! I have still sitting on my shelf, staring at me - Small Island, The girls and Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Fingersmith.
I have to thank you mrstreme, I have found myself referencing the list of Orange nominees many times and my tbr list has grown. I ...
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Orange Prize Long & Short Listed Books
1. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieJuly
2. Monster Love by Carol Topolski January
3. Rape: a Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates January
4. ...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
Woman Between Worlds
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
The Bonesetter's Daughter
... Troy - Pretty interesting.
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. A 1001 book. Interesting and small at 144 pages.
Half of a Yellow Sun is my current read, and I'm enjoying it.
Thinking about my New Years resolutions......I think I'll try to read quite a few more from the 1001 list.
...
... for Costa Novel Award and LA Times Book Prize for Fiction, 2006 (3/22/09)
8. Lush Life - Richard Price
9. Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, 2007
... n
The biggest surprise: The Girls by Lori Lansens – a remarkable book.
Book from a country I hadn’t read: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Best multi-layered novel: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Best graphic memoir: Persepolis 1 and 2 by M ...
... (and which weren't a re-read):
The Road
No Country for Old Men
Small Island
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Half of a Yellow Sun
... Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
... I know it is tough, as it certainly is for me, but we can do it! Here are mine:
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCar ...
The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ...
... by Terry Pratchett
28. Disquiet by Julia Leigh
29. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
May
30. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
31. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
32. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
33. Blackberry Wine ...
... Dickens
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mao II by Don DeLillo
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarth ...
... this list.
Fiction:
No Country for Old Men
Small Island
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Road
Half of a Yellow Sun
Non-Fiction:
Enrique's Journey
The Zookeeper's Wife
Three Cups of Tea
About Alice
Infidel
... - Geraldine Brooks
Remains of the Day
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
War and Peace
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Blind Assassin
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Music and Silence - Rose Tremain
The Secret River = Kate Grenville
Gr ...
... Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
6. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
7. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Nonficti ...
... Paton
The Seasons of the Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
After You’d Gone by Maggie O’ Farrell
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa
...
... Books No One Else Is Reading. I notice that there are some books that everyone seems to be reading and talking about (Half of a Yellow Sun , for just one example). Those books are great, but all those other books that are less known get neglected. Unfortunately, I can't think of a category ...
... a good way either. I had no idea where it was coming from and why it was there. Simply a bad book.
I was 100 pages into Half of a Yellow Sun which was phenomenal, but it had to go back to the library. I will for sure get back to that
and next, I have either Mating by Normal Rush, which ...
deebee and alcottacre, I'm one of the people who loved Half of a Yellow Sun and pushed it hard here on LT (some might say ad nauseum), so your comments that there should have been more info about Biafra and the historical context of the war made me think. But it seems to me we can't as readers ...
... (***)
American Wife# by Curtis Sittenfeld (576pp) (****)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (560pp) (*****)
Half of a Yellow Sun # by Chimamanda Adichie (433pp)
Inkheart# by Cornelia Funke (***)
Middlesex# by Jeffrey Eugenides (544pp) (****)
Something Happened# by Joseph H ...
#195 deebee: I liked Half a Yellow Sun better than you did from the sounds of it, but not as enthusiastically as a lot of other LT readers. I thought there was too much soap opera too it, and would have preferred more info about Biafra.
86. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - a portrayal of the crippling civil war following the secession of the Igbo people to form the independent nation of Biafra in eastern Nigeria in the 1960s.
I bought this book because I was intrigued by the many raves and the ...
I just came back from 1960s Nigeria with Half of a Yellow Sun and will continue my visit to the Palestinian refugee camps in Israel-controlled West Bank with David Grossman's essays in The Yellow Wind.
#132 deebee1
I personally loved Half of a Yellow Sun and got completely caught up in the lives of the people. I admit that it started off slow but got considerably better as it went through. Its a heartbreaking read but one that I would recommend as well, so I'd say stick with it. Others may ...
I'm over a hundred pages into Half of a Yellow Sun which came highly recommended. I'm afraid, though, it has yet to pick up for me; i'm tempted to put it aside for a while.
Reading too, coincidentally, another "yellow" book, The Yellow Wind, a collection of essays by David Grossman about ...
#16 I agree. Ivan Denisovich or Half of a Yellow Sun .
... and most nudges. next will be Cancer Ward, then The Reader.
for the 2nd batch of titles to read, the nudges dictate Half of a Yellow Sun , Landscape Painted With Tea, and The Sorrow of Belgium. polutropos, thanks for ur thoughts on Skvorecky, and yes, let's compare notes on Landscape. ...
... I'd nudge Ivan Denisovich (short, sparing and very, very thought-provoking), but if you're in the mood for a good story, Half of a Yellow Sun .
... Gaskell
Germinal by Émile Zola
The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Aubrey’s Brief Lives by John Aubrey
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Le Petit Prince by Antoine ...
I've not read any of them but I'm going to nudge Half of a Yellow Sun , Cancer Ward and The Reader as I have them on my tbr pile.
... I liked it. Also, it's a very quick read. It is unlike anything I've ever read before.
The only other one I've read is Half a Yellow Sun , which I liked, but not as much as most people did.
Welcome deebee! Judging from your pile, there are some lovely reads in store for you! A strong nudge for Half of a Yellow Sun from me.
... of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Dog Years by Gunter Grass
Tereza Batista by Jorge Amado
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongsu
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
Landscape Painted With Tea by Mi ...
everydayxangels, I thought Half a Yellow Sun was fabulous. Glad you are enjoying it too!
I'm in Nigeria with Half of a Yellow Sun by Adicihi. I'm really loving it so far. I'm about 130 pages in and so far it's following these 3 people and their own separate stories and how each one is linked by a degree of separation. I love the subtle tenderness to it.
I'm going to nudge Half of a Yellow Sun . It was one of my favourite reads from last year. If I had your pile in front of me, I'd go for The View from Castle Rock because I haven't read it and I think Munro is a fantastic writer.
I agree with Nickelini about The Name of the Rose. Well ...
I'd nudge both Half of a Yellow Sun and Every Light in the House Burning, which I might even have preferred to the wonderful Small Island. Oh, and The Name of the Rose is definitely worth the read, too (but it gets less of my nudge than the first two!) Interesting to see your thoughts on ...
I'm with you, Amanda - my nudge goes to Half of a Yellow Sun !
What a great stack! Many of those are on my TBR list. I've read three, but I can't really pick one to recommend:
Half a Yellow Sun , very popular with a lot of readers. I'm with Cariola in saying that I didn't love it as much as others did. My book club also wasn't too chuffed about it, ...
Half of a Yellow Sun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... put down and picked back up The View from Castle Rock a number of times but haven't yet gotten hooked by it. I did read Half of a Yellow Sun but was less impressed with it than most people have been.
The Known World, The Madonnas of Leningrad, and The City of Falling Angels are in ...
City of Dreams is a pretty good historical fiction. I also very much enjoyed Half of a Yellow Sun , Sixty Lights, The Madonnas of Leningrad, The Name of the Rose, The Known World, The View from Castle Rock and The Inheritance of Loss - much depends on what kind of you are up for. Gees ...
... - it won the Giller Prize in Canada and I did not think it lived up to that.
I think a few people here will recommend Half of a Yellow Sun but I haven't read it.
I think I am going to be patriotic and nudge the Alice Munro View from Castle Rock
... after all the hype about it and I had to give up on The Island Of The Day Before. The Inheritance of Loss and Half a Yellow Sun are both in my tbr's too but not in my photoed stack.
I'm only a occassional reader of non-fiction but I enjoyed Stasiland, so I'd nudge that as my ...
Would anyone like to choose one fiction work and one non-fiction from my pile?
I usually have one of each on the go. Really, I usually have about 6 on the go but that's a very embarrassing habit and I'm trying to finish more books! So I promise to read the most popular nudge from each side ...
...
2Infidel by Ayaan Ali Hersi
3Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert
5Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope
7The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
8The Careful Use of Compliments ...
... African writers I have enjoyed Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, both to the Adichie novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun , Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana, The Famished Road by Ben Okri. I have many more classic and contemporary African novels in ...
... in reading more about Africa. I have four nonfiction books lined up to read (after I finish KL!) and I will be adding Half a Yellow Sun to that list--I like to mix fiction with my nonfiction. Thanks for suggesting that one. Thanks also for reminding me that I own and should read West ...
... Lopez
7. Canone Inverso
8. An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
9. The Unconsoled by Ishiguro
Historical Fiction
1. Half of a Yellow Sun
2. The Coffee Trader
3. Girl in Hyacinth Blue
4. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
5. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
6. Mistress of the Art of De ...
7. Colourful Stories COMPLETED
1. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel 20/01/2009
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 02/03/2009
3. A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta 01/04/2009
4. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris June 2009
5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith June 2009
...
... >
38) Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer 315 pp {reread}
39) The stone diaries by Carol Shields 361 pp {reread}
40) Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 543 pp. {book club}
October summary, three books, total 1219 pp
From the university bookshop's sale:
The Blair Diaries by Alistair Campbell
The Pankhursts by somebody I forget
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Teenage Boys Talk by Stephanie Weaver.
#158 Kiwiflowa, I blame you because I went to the bookshop to post your bookmooch ...
... yet. Unintentionally I've read a handful of Orange Prize winners and shortlist books and really enjoyed them (Bel Canto, Half of a Yellow Sun ). This was the first time I picked up a book only because it was an Orange Prize winner.
Next up I plan to give Terry Pratchett another try with Sou ...
Mine are...
1. I, the Divine by Rabih Alameddine
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
5. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Oops I seem to have forgot to mention that I was reading Half of a Yellow Sun . Really enjoyed it. Like, people read books like A Million Little Pieces, which is just some over-privileged idiot's (fake) drug memoir (boo hoo), and then you read something like Yellow Sun, which is actually about ...
I'm not quite there yet :S
I'm on my 30th - Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is really amazing.
As one of the original LT promoters of Half of A Yellow Sun (perhaps ad nauseum), I can only say this is indeed well-deserved!
... great reads this quarter!
My top five - not likely to change in the next 8 days - in the order in which I read them:
* Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa (published posthumously)
* Small Island by Andrea Levy
* Nervous Conditio ...
Finished Death in a Strange Country, for 4/8 in my
Venice Category, and started
Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for 6/8 unique reads in my 1,001 category.
I've started reading Half of a Yellow Sun , which is in the 2nd edition of the 1001.
> 52
I seem to remember enjoying The Red Queen.
... Night Falls, including the film. You didn't mention Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Nigerian novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun which are wonderful.
For Massachusetts (or Britain) , I missed Henry James. Do you not like him? I love the films of his books also, ...
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#39 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichie (July) This book about the Biafran War brought back powerful memories of my years across the border in Cameroon, several ...
... The Floating Opera, John Barth
3. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
4. 1984, George Orwell
5. Kitchen
6. Half of a Yellow Sun
7. Cold Comfort Farm
kambrogi and lindsacl, I read Purple Hibiscus after I read (and loved, as all LTers must know by now) Half of a Yellow Sun , so that colored my opinion. Half of a Yellow Sun is clearly orders of magnitude more complex and better, but I thought Purple Hibiscus was a lovely little story, and ...
... Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
13. Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard
14. Getting Rid Of Matthew by Jane Fallon
15. Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
16. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
17. The Chocolate Run by Dorothy Koomson
18. Beyond Ugly by Constance Briscoe
19 ...
... by Ngugi wa Thiongo is a great satirical portrait of a "fictional" contemporary African dictatorship, and I second Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
message 51, 54 and 55..
Half a Yellow Sun is a book I recently started and just could not get into. I agree though, lots of people do find this to be an excellent book. So, I may just give it a try at another time.
Another recently abandoned book is the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde ...
#50, 51 - I also didn't love Half of a Yellow Sun . I didn't abandon it and I think I gave it a few stars, but I didn't see what everyone else was raving about.
Cariola -- I've been waiting to hear from someone who didn't love Half a Yellow Sun . I liked it better than you did, and gave it 4 stars, but I certainly didn't love it the way everyone else around here does. A few months after finishing it, I found it rather forgettable. And I thought it was ...
Two highly hyped books that I wasn't able to finish:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I only made it about 50 pages into the first one. It just didn't grab me and the characters were not very engaging or dynamic.
I ...
Let's not leave out the more recent Half of a Yellow Sun and What is the What, both excellent books.
... Doyle's The Woman Who Walked into Doors--am nearly finished with it. I'm halfway through Excellent Women; read half of Half of a Yellow Sun , skimmed the rest, and am working on reading it over more carefully; just started The Hindi-Bindi Club and Midnight's Children; and am rereading No ...
Hi Cariola
I started Half a Yellow Sun after reading many wonderful comments about it here on LT. For some reason, I keep putting it down and going on to other books. I'll keep plodding along but thus far it isn't captivating me.
Hi Cariola
I started Half a Yellow Sun after reading many wonderful comments about it here on LT. For some reason, I keep putting it down and going on to other books. I'll keep plodding along but thus far it isn't captivating me.
... emigre tyre-makers in whose home Shakespeare lodged for three years. Fairly interesting if somewhat repetitive.
56. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
I had heard such high praise for this book that I guess some disappointment was inevitable. I found it slow going ...
... - nonfiction; interesting selection of people chosen, some of whom I had heard of, most of whom I had not
265. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - I enjoyed this book very much with a few minor quibbles; prior to LT I would never have picked it up to read
266. ...
I got a lovely recommendation for and gift copy of Half of a Yellow Sun from my daughter today. Mr. Man and I finished The Lace Reader and loved loved loved it!
mckait, so wonderful to know that ISabel's healing powers are available to you! I find her the precise opposite of craptastic. I ...
... bearing the superlative news that she and her wonderful husband ARE going to have a baby (not yet, whew) and a gift of Half of a Yellow Sun with an excited recommendation. She couldn't wait to get it to me, she liked it so much. Then I took us all out for sushi and a gelato. Perfect ...
I'm reading two books, one is Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi dichie and the other is a much lighter read by Elizabeth Berg, Until the Right One Comes Along
I would have to go with:
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
and a distant, but enjoyable third The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
#46 porch_reader: I just finished Half a Yellow Sun as well. The only thing I really did not care for (and it is a minor point) is some of the 'soap operaness' of it: the sister's lover sleeping with the sister, the illegitimate child, etc. Granted, the author does not go down the melodramatic ...
... the break and even though I go into the office often, I don't have the student traffic.
Coincidentally, I started Half a Yellow Sun yesterday and thus far have read three chapters. I like the writing style.
#50 - Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Finished July 29, 2008
What a wonderful book! The story is set during Biafra's struggle to separate from Nigeria during the 1960s. I learned much about this period in the region's history, but I was also completely captivated by the ...
... your impressions of Rick Bragg's writing. I am hooked! I wish I could write like him!
So many people on LT recommended Half a Yellow Sun that I thought it worth a try..glad you liked it as well.
#126 - I loved Half of a Yellow Sun , but then I'm old enough to remember the pics of starving Biafran children when I was in high school. Learned a lot of Nigerian history from that book. Also, enjoy the Rick Bragg book. My favorites were the one about the bible, the one about the accused ...
I started Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie then went to the library this morning to pick up five books held on reserve...one of which is Rick Bragg's New York Times articles...I think I'll read both this week.
I'm heading to my library today to see if I can obtain a copy of this. But first, next on my list is Half a Yellow Sun
I also note The Gargoyle on many posts. Are you liking this book thus far?
Well, life seems to have gotten in the way of my reading progress. I am still working on Half of a Yellow Sun and Excellent Women and dipping into The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Need to start an Early Review book, Woman of a Thousand Secrets, and also Midnight's Children ...
... unless I saw something from my wishlist, but I have absolutely no willpower. Blah.
First off, I found a copy of Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Nogizi Adichie. I've heard a ton of good things about it on here, but I doubt I'd have picked it up at this time if the store hadn't ...
#121: I have not yet read it, so I cannot comment on all the buzz regarding Half of a Yellow Sun . I picked it up because of all the buzz.
From Recorded Books today I got Oceans of Fire by Christine Feehan. I do so love listening to audiobooks while I am working!
>121 There are 58 reviews so far on the working page for Half of a Yellow Sun . http://www.librarything.com/work/856564/reviews
... inflicts on the nation. p. 180
This is exactly what this novel does.
As a further note, I think those who have read Half of a Yellow Sun might also like this book. The twins are too young to remember the Biafran War but their two uncles fought in it and there are bits about it. Habila is ...
>112 alcottacre, I see that a gazillion folks have, and many of those have read, Half of a Yellow Sun ; now you. What is this book?! Why does no one heap praise or contumely upon it in my hearing, here? I don't mean a synopsis, I know what the book's about since I have to know these ...
... in from my library trip this evening:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which shamingly I have never read
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson
The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Importance ...
... each other. Having read both in the past few months, I expect that The Poisonwood Bible will stay in my mind longer than Half a Yellow Sun , which is already fading away. But I should really wait six months before I commit to that :-)
... quite a few LT libraries so I thought I'd give this one a try. Thus, far, I'm enjoying it. After this, I'm going to read Half a Yellow Sun ..another book highly recommended by many LT folk.
Hi, I've just discovered this group. Never been on before as I'd assumed it was for chick-lit fans only!
Anyway re: Half 0f a Yellow Sun. I gave it 5 stars because the book just completely took me into it's world. I found the characters convincing, was completely caught up in their lives and ...
I'm moving between Excellent Women by Barbara Pym and Half of a Yellow Sun . My current audiobook is The Lodger Shakespeare by Charles Nicholl.
... For the Orange July, I've read Crocodile Soup, which I definitely recommend to everyone. I'm also making my way through Half a Yellow Sun , but it's not going as fast as I expected. I started The Fear of Losing Eurydice last night. Thus far, I really love it. I've also read a few pages of ...
Hi.
I read your reviews. You are quite a good writer! I was able to obtain Half a Yellow Sun from my local library and will begin it tomorrow. I'm on vacation after next week and I look forward to down time to read.
By the way, I agree with you regarding The Celestine Prophecy. It ...
I just finished The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, which was sad but wonderful, and now I'm returning to Half of a Yellow Sun .
... I do very much agree with dchaikin that Ugwu character develops more.
The book I am reading now makes me think back to Half of a Yellow Sun , I'm not entirely sure why. Measuring Time begins in the 60s when the twins are children and moves quickly ahead. The war is mentioned mostly as it ...
Like everyone else here, I've read Half of a Yellow Sun and thought it was an evocative and important work. I had a discussion on this book with some friends, two of whom felt that it was wrong to have written the book primarily from the POV of the educated/privileged class. I think it was ...
I was able to obtain Half a Yellow Sun from my local library. Right now I'm reading All over but the shouting by Rick Bragg. As soon as I'm finished, I'm staring Half a Yellow Sun. Thanks for your recommendation!
Linda
Hear, hear! Half of a Yellow Sun was one of the best things I read last year.
... really work for me on that level either. I wonder if I was just in a really bad funk when I read these books.
115 is Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Finally! A book I really liked! I felt like I learned a lot about the Biafran-Nigerian conflict of the 60s (I'm pretty ...
... in the "democracy" going on around them but are shoved out on the fringes. I guess a key counterexample would be Ugwu in Half of a Yellow Sun , who, while he's bright, doesn't really seem an outsider for most of the book (which makes his actions while part of the army that much more powerful). ...
I have Half a Yellow Sun here - a friend lent it to me. I think it'll be moving up to near the top of the TBR pile.
Hi Akeela!
I note Half of a Yellow Sun on many reading lists. Guess I'll simply have to add one more to my growing to be read this. Thanks for the recommendation.
Hi Akeela!
I note Half of a Yellow Sun on many reading lists. Guess I'll simply have to add one more to my growing to be read this. Thanks for the recommendation.
#51 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. An engrossing read by a talented author. Highly recommended.
Kambrogi, my reactions to Small Island reminded my of my reactions to Half of a Yellow Sun --although they are very different stories, I was similarly affected with the structure, the writing, and the global issues. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Half of a Yellow Sun !
I'm also currently in the throes of Half of a Yellow Sun and enjoying Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's writing thoroughly!
... created for each character.
I finally finished all my other reading, and so was able to begin my first Orange read, Half of A Yellow Sun , last night.
LIke Rebecca, I rated The Poisonwood Bible lower than Half of a Yellow Sun . For me the latter was 5/5 because of: a) the characters b) the story of Nigeria/Biafra c)the struggles of the characters d) the writing.
Although the writing was not the most beautiful I have ever read, I could not ...
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngochie Adichie
Rain Storm by Barry Eisler
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
... so far.
One of the benefits of LT is discovering the number of great books written by women that I've hardly touched. Half of a Yellow Sun has been one of my favourites this year. Definitely an LT recommendation.
... Traveler's Wife is an amazing book! I finished it a few months ago and couldn't put it down.
May I suggest Atonement, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Kite Runner - some of my all-time favourites.
Being but a young schoolgirl, I have also read My Sister's Keeper, a heartbreaking novel ...
I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I am very pleased that this group read spurred me into getting to this book sooner rather than later.
The story takes place during the Nigerian-Biafran War (1967-1970). The author's grandfathers were both killed during the ...
From Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
iniquitous: vicious
calabash: a gourd often used as a dipping utensil
I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. What a well written and engaging book. The characters are memorable, the historical aspect was fascinating, and it really opened my mind further on the issue of racism.
I am just about to start The Enchantress of Florence ...
... Good Earth. Right now I want to smack the husband.
Also reading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym and just started Half of a Yellow Sun .
I've just entered Nigeria with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun . I'm only 50 pages in but am totally enthralled!
... Murakami (first Murakami for me so looking forward to it)
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Poppie by Elsa Joubert
If the Earth Should Move by Deepa Agarwal
An Arabian Mosaic by Dalya Cohen-Mor ...
"Impossible!"
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Was there a way to truly try to understand the minds of these people?"
"I don't know what I'm doing."
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Would you like a nightcap, Darling?"
58 - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am sitting under Half of a Yellow Sun in Nigeria in the 1960s.
"The blurred days crawled into one another."
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Why isn't what you are enough?"
I finally finished Oscar and Lucinda and am thoroughly enjoying Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
I started Half of a Yellow Sun last night. I'm not too far along, but it's very engaging. I have hopes that it will live up ot the many rave reviews on LT.
... have won or were nominated for The Orange Prize this month (what I affectionately call my Orange July). I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun - a fantastic book - and will start The Gathering by Anne Enright later today.
Here is my official review of Half of a Yellow Sun . NO SPOILERS.
Overall, it was a difficult but important book to read. Adichie did not sugarcoat a thing in this book, from missing heads to children's diseases. I am glad to have read ...
45) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( review )
UPS found me in the nort woods of Michigan, bringing:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
... diversions in TV Sets by Mark Bennett and Sitcom Style by Diana Friedman.
>7 teelgee, glad to see your thumbs up for Half of a Yellow Sun . I ended up traveling when I started it, and it was too big a hardcover to drag along. Hope to get back to it in July.
... post your thoughts on this thread about each Orange book you read in July.
I have already started my Orange July book, Half of a Yellow Sun , and am totally enthralled.
Have fun, everyone!
I can't narrow it down below four:
The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
Half of a Yellow Sun -- Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichi
Mudbound -- Hillary Jordan
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox -- Maggie O'Farrell
... can spot some other cross overs that may well 'qualify'? From my point of view I would go with the Blood of Flowers and Half of A Yellow Sun . The spiritual dimension of life is palpable in both books - see what you think.
... my TBR list, and some others that sound really interesting. So count me in! I ordered a bunch from the library, including Half of a Yellow Sun , We Need to Talk About Kevin, Oryx and Crake, and A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. I don't know which one I'll read first, but I ...
... having only read two books of her essays (which were fabulous).
I am going to start my first Orange July book today: Half of a Yellow Sun .
From Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a quote about forgiveness.
"What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?"
... I plan to this weekend so I can pick them up and have them on hand at the beginning of the month. I'm inclined to include Half a Yellow Sun on the list, having heard so many rave reviews about it.
ETA: Oh, yes, and The Blood of Flowers, which I already have waiting on my bedside table. ...
Welcome kambrogi! I am also reading Half of a Yellow Sun and We Need To Talk about Kevin for Orange July. I just finished Property a few weeks ago and loved it. Best of luck with your Orange reads and keep us posted on your progress!
... of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Small Island -- Andrea Levy
The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
Half of a Yellow Sun -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox -- Maggie O'Farrell
Mudbound -- Hillary Jordan
And I feel I must ...
... LT standards). So (provided I find them all and can finish my two current books by July) I will read:
The Road Home
Half of a Yellow Sun
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Property
The Idea of Perfection
When I Lived in Modern Times
Can't wait!
... resolution being part of the story. I read books all the time that leave aspects unresolved, and I often enjoy it, but in Half a Yellow Sun it stands out for me--doesn't really fit the rest of the novel somehow. Yes, war is war, and perhaps Adichie thought it added a touch of realism. But for ...
LT has paid off this year. I've read Out Stealing Horses , Cry, The Beloved Country , Half of a Yellow Sun and Late Innings. All were wonderful and LT gets the blame.
... has had a more indirect effect for me in that it has influenced the arrangement of my TBR pile. For example, I had bought Half of a Yellow Sun because I had read the author's previous book but it stayed in the TBR pile with LOTS of other books until rebeccanyc praised it. I then moved it near ...
... books I read were Indigo: or mapping the waters, which was interesting but not great (this tread did specify "great") and Half of a Yellow Sun .
... How can someone's mind work that way?
I already had something to read, but that didn't stop me from coming home with Half of a Yellow Sun , read and loved last summer, and Shame.
Half a Yellow Sun
Empire of the Sun
The Sun Also Rises
TO the Bright and Shining Sun
Follow Another Star
Night of Rain and Stars
... at.
Working backwards from 2008, I've read the following.
The Keep by Jennifer Egan -- strange but interesting
Half of A Yellow Sun loved it as you all know
The Inheritance of Loss -- I didn' enjoy this, as cabegley so diplomatically points out
The Tenderness of Wolves -- read ...
... enjoyed the structure of the novel, as well as the story within. I am a big fan of Waters' work.
From 2007:
I loved Half of a Yellow Sun --a deserving winner.
I thought Inheritance of Loss was beautifully written, especially in the way the countryside became as much a character as ...
2007 Longlist
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun - winner
Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare
Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park - shortlist
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss - shortlist
Patricia Ferguson, Peripheral Vision
Margaret Forster, Over
Nell Freudenberger, T ...
... enjoyable book and not romance or chick lit by any stretch!
I've been on a reading marathon this week - have read Half of a Yellow Sun and Mudbound and An Artist of the Floating World and The Story of Lucy Gault in the last few days. Tonight just started The Blind Assassin. Been ...
Yes mrstreme, let me gang up on you as well ... I know you would like Half of a Yellow Sun !!
Excited to see high ratings for both Half of a Yellow Sun and Mudbound - both books are on Mount TBR. =)
I finished Half of a Yellow Sun yesterday, then zipped through Mudbound today - both excellent. on deck: either An Artist of the Floating World or I'll dive into Unaccustomed Earth. Figure I can't go wrong either way.
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42. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 5/5
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
White Corridor by Christopher Fowler
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
Red Dust by Gillian Slovo
I'm (finally!) in Nigeria with Half of a Yellow Sun as well as beginning to explore what The World Without Us might be like.
>1 ooh, I think I'll read Half of a Yellow Sun with you.
... Chickens by The Duchess of Devonshire. Will move onto two other review books and then either The Blind Assassin or Half of a Yellow Sun .
jlcardwell, I read Purple Hibiscus after I read Half of a Yellow Sun . It is very good, especially for a first novel, but Adichie made astounding leaps forward in Half of Yellow Sun.
Irisheyz77> I look forward to sharing impressions from Half a Yellow Sun .
Like hemlokgang, I'm going to read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Its a book that I already one and its been on my TBR list for awhile now so to have Nigeria as a theme sounds like the perfect opportunity to pick it up and read it. =)
I'm going to read Half a Yellow Sun as it is on my TBR pile and this will help me get to it sooner.
... but well worth the read. I've taught Things Fall Apart. The book sparked some lively class discussion. I plan to read Half a Yellow Sun , which has been sitting in my TBR pile for a while.
... with how well this book sits with the other Nigerian lit I have read. http://nnedi.com/about.html (about the author)
Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize
Wole Soyinka is a Nobel Prize winner
The Famished Road by Ben Okri won the Booker Prize.
Medellia in 1001 Books to read before you die : May 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list (May 11, 2008, 8:19pm)
... I imagine that my progress will be speedier in a few days, when my semester officially ends.
I also recently finished Half of a Yellow Sun (from the new edition of 1001 Books), and E.M. Forster's A Room With a View.
... dations:
Dangerous Love by Ben Okri
Fitzgerald's Wood by David Nwokedi
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I, Safya by Safiya Hoesseini (autobiographical)
Infinite Riches by Ben Okri
Measuring Time by Helon H ...
... there are several I've read over the past year or two: Anna Karenina, Cranford, Atonement, Saturday, The Reader, Half of a Yellow Sun , & Mrs. Dalloway. I agree with all your comments about these books too.
I also have Orlando, Cloud Atlas & Wide Sargasso Sea in my TBR pile. ...
Wow, nice going with the reading purpleelephant!
I'm waiting to read Half of a Yellow Sun until I'm done with War and Peace and I can give my full attention to it. Soon!!
#34: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. I saw so many recommendations on LT, I knew I needed to read it. A sad but lovely account of the Biafran War and Nigeria in the 1960s. Good characterization, and an engrossing plot. I don't read nearly enough non-Western literature, so this ...
Half a Yellow Sun
Devil in a Blue Dress
Green Mansions
Green Darkness
The Golden Spiders
Red Sky at Morning
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Red Violin
Black Like Me
Crimson Joy
Blue Screen
I read Purple Hibiscus recently, and I liked it--not as much as Half of a Yellow Sun , but you can definitely see how she got from here to there. I passed it along to my 12-year-old daughter--I think it would really speak to the YA audience.
I liked Brick Lane quite a lot. The Namesake ...
... is even more talented than her mother Anita Desai
A History of Love A very moving book, beautifully written. Super.
Half of a Yellow sun One of the great books about Africa by an African. Amazing. (Her Purple Hibiscus is wonderful, too. )
The Mistress of Spices I was not impressed
...
Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: This book has been one of the stars here at LT since I joined last year, so I'm not sure what is left to say about it. It was a very interesting read, and I learned something about African politics along the way (without feeling lectured at). ...
... brilliant.
As for The Poisonwood Bible, I read that years ago and enjoyed it, but would not put it in the same class as Half of a Yellow Sun .
...
10. Snowflower and the Secret Fan
11. The Thirty-Nine Steps
12. A Cup of Tea
13. Peace Shall Destroy Many
14. Half of a Yellow Sun
15. Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Looking back on this month, I'm exhausted! A Cup of Tea was a light read, but the other books were tough. I've ...
Many people here, and at LT in general, rate Half of a Yellow Sun as one of their favourite books. I just finished it, and while I think it was very good, I'm not over-the-moon in love with it. I rated it 4 stars. I'd like to hear from some of you who gave it 5 stars: why do you love this book? I' ...
... have wanted to quit books that ended up being very good and very rewarding. Two that come to mind are Tree of Smoke and Half of a Yellow Sun . I really had to work in the beginning of both of those, but it was so worth it.
... Steps, by John Buchan
24. A Cup of Tea, by Amy Ephron
25. Peace Shall Destroy Many, by Rudy Wiebe
26. Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adachie
27. Portuguese Irregular Verbs, by Alexander McCall Smith
Well, since I found out that Half of a Yellow Sun is in the new edition of 1001, and I happen to be reading it, I guess I am reading a book from the list after all. Who knew.
... example) will be even better because more to choose from. It looks like I have a few of the new books already and I've read Half of a Yellow Sun so feeling good.
Yes, very interesting. I'm curious to know what they've dropped. I'm currently reading Half of a Yellow Sun , so I guess I'm ahead of my game. Yeah! Anyway, thanks for posting these "spoilers" :-)
... Smith
The short history of tractors in Ukranian
Falling man by Delillo
Measuring the world by Kehlman
Half of a yellow sun by Adichie
The reluctant fundamentalist
(touchstones are wonky)
The last nine are recently published novels, the first six are older.
Th ...
I've read Half of a Yellow Sun and have a copy Purple Hibiscus, which I should get to in a couple months. My understanding is they are not sequential or related in any way, so order doesn't matter in that sense.
Ms. Elephant, I'm glad you liked Half of a Yellow Sun as much as you did. I ...
Ms. Elephant, you nailed why I have been putting off reading Half of a Yellow Sun . I have both it and Purple Hibiscus just sitting there on the bedside TBR pile. I have also been wondering if reading the Yellow Sun before the Purple Hibiscus would be a good or bad thing. Dither, dither.
... really basic chapters about dialogue, show and tell etc. Still none the wiser as to how to actually edit my novel.
26) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I've had this on mount TBR for a while and I've been shying away from it because I haven't heard one bad thing about ...
I did enjoy too. Well I don't know 'enjoy' is quite the right word, it was really well written. I have also just finished Half a Yellow Sun , which is excellent, but also grim reading. On a lighter note I enjoyed The Thirteenth Tale, not classic literature, but a good read.
... reading it)
Middlemarch because I'm in the LT group read (another one that was sitting in my TBR pile),
and
Half of a Yellow Sun because it's my book club read for May.
... of flowers – Anita Amirrezvani - 368p
04/03/08 A three dog life: A memoir – Abigail Thomas - 182p
04/06/08 Half of a yellow sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie– 433p.
04/07/08 Cold Comfort Farm– Stella Gibson- 233p..
... attitude still prevails. I think it is wrong to see the OP dismissively as books by and about women. No one who has read Half of a Yellow Sun or The Lizard Cage would think this.
>6 I think the OP talks about how it started in some of their Q&A. I think the failure of the Booker Prize ...
15. The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus, edited by Brian Aldiss.
16. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
... absolutely wonderful.
1. Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson
2. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
5. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Does your club read only fiction? If so, I would also recommend Half of a Yellow Sun , The Road, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Life of Pi. In addition, I would suggest:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Mister Pip by Lloyd J ...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Any of the Geraldine Brooks books - March, Year of Wonders, People of the Book
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Half of a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg
But that means leaving out The Uncommon Reader, The Poisonwood Bible and Voss.
An ...
... quarter in both fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction:
The Road by McCarthy
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Hamid
Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie
Lolita by Nabakov
In the Country of Men by Matar
Nonfiction:
Wild Swans by Chung
Dreams From My Father by Obama
Three ...
Edited to erase double post.
... I can highly recommend Links by Nuruddin Farah (Somalia), Notes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia (Ethiopia) and Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie (Nigeria). They are written by native authors and really give a good sense of history and culture.
... in maybe doing one of the books that lots of us seem to share, if everyone hasn't already read them?
Right now its:
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (13), War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (21), Ex libris : confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman (13), The Yacoubian ...
... in maybe doing one of the books that lots of us seem to share, if everyone hasn't already read them?
Right now its:
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (13), War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (21), Ex libris : confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman (13), The Yacoubian ...
Picked up Half of a Yellow Sun and The Unknown Terrorist with a Borders gift card.
Picked up Half of a Yellow Sun and The Unknown Terrorist with a Borders gift card.
... by Lindsey Davis
Ho hum. These are all getting very samey now. Still. Again. Nice enough, but.
38. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Still pondering this one. I'm not sure whether it's as good as everyone tells me, or it's rather annoying. Ask ...
... where to go next. My options are Italy with The Rossetti Letter, Spain with The Shadow of the Wind, Nigeria with Half of a Yellow Sun or to East/West Berlin, Germany in Trudy's Promise.
I read two, both excellent.
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colors
3-1. My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
3-2. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
3-3. Half of a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3-4. Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
3-5. Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
3-6. The Color Purple, Alice Walke ...
I just left 1960s Nigeria in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and am now bouncing between an English country house in Austenland by Shannon Hale and ancient Greece in Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill.
#4 - Read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. One of the characters is an Englishman who chooses to stay in Biafra with his Igbo friends rather than go back to England or stay in the "safe" part of Nigeria. Everyone in the novel has to decide what is right and what to do in the ...
Finished Half of a Yellow Sun last night and posted a review today. It's a very good book but it's sad that things don't seem to have changed much in Africa in the last 35-40 years ...
I think my next book will be Austenland by Shannon Hale, which I picked up at the library. I need ...
Interesting. Half of a Yellow Sun doesn't surprise me, not The Yacoubian Building but I find The English Patient and The Handmaid's Tale intriguing.
... are the ten most commonly owned books (weighted) in the group:
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe (91 owners)
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (49)
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (92)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (114)
Jane Eyre ...
Finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and then saw the author at a reading (along with Dave Eggers). Powerful book, even for the clueless like me who had never heard of Biafra before.
Reading Foreigner by C. J. Cherry, finally.
... like Porterhouse Blue, surely. Case Histories is also suitably Cambridge-based.
For really confusing - reading Half of a Yellow Sun while on a bus journey across Uzbekistan. Really similar climate, landscape and infrastructure to West Africa in places. Really, really confusing. I ...
... that I was a very active participant in the 2006 blog (mainly slagging off the judges for not even long-listing Half of a Yellow Sun ), but last year's (2007) was terribly designed, user-unfriendly and incredibly restricted (probably to hinder people like me, ahem). This year's doesn't ...
... I didn't think of that (:-p) is because I was looking for a recommendation. (From your list, A Thread of Grace and Half of a Yellow Sun have come highly recommended. I like lots of choice though!)
... find appropriate reads for this theme. A few that come to mind to get you thinking:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Virago Book of Women and the Great War
The ...
... by His Furry Shorts and The People of Sparks. Still reading Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea and also in the midst of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and A Buffalo in the House: the True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West by R. D. Rosen, which I picked up ...
... poor review from Publishers Weekly. It surprised me somewhat after the Nimrod Flip-out got such great ones.
>FionaCat, Half of a Yellow Sun was my best read* of 2007, I hope you find it as powerful a story as I did. *it's always so hard for me to choose 'best' books, I often feel it's like ...
I am in Nigeria during the 1960s with Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. And in New Mexico with a young bison, a sculptor and a pilot in A Buffalo in the House by R. D. Rosen.
I stopped by the library today and picked up Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest novel, Half of a Yellow Sun which is about the struggle for Nigerian independence in the 1960s. I really enjoyed her Purple Hibiscus so I'm looking forward to reading this one.
I also borrowed A Buffalo in ...
I finally decided to read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It took a little to get going, but it's suddenly very powerful. I'll have to look up that LT discussion on it once I finish.
... and here http://www.inprinthouston.org
I'm planning to attend, and I'm even reading Half of a Yellow Sun as a sort of prep. Any chance anyone else is going?
edit - "chance" was "change"
... I thought I would so we could see "the best of January" from everyone. My picks:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Half of a Yellow Sun
Three Cups of Tea
Hello my name is Terri and I'm a bookaholic. Today I bought:
Half of a Yellow Sun which I've heard about nonstop since joining LT a year ago.
We Need to Talk About Kevin - ditto
Small Island - only for about the last six months.
My life has become unmanageable.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
... year to learn more about Africa through reading.
FionaCat-- agree about Beah's book, it was riveting. Have you read Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie? I read it after several people recommended it; it's one of the best novels I've ever read. The Reading Globally group has a great thread ...
... of the Orange Prize longlisted and winning novels I have read; however, I have liked some more than others. I much prefer Half of a Yellow Sun over On Beauty, although I did like the latter very much and thought the character of Kiki was developed well enough. I'm looking forward to the ...
... so it's a good match. No idea what I'm reading next, maybe Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh or Contact for group reads, or Half A Yellow Sun as the author is giving a reading in February. Also, I have 11 other library books lying about...
Finished Half of a Yellow Sun , which was excellent. I'll definitely look for more books by Adichie. Started The Reluctant Fundamentalist which I'm finding absolutely gripping. Very interesting writing style as well. Thoroughly enjoying it. Also have started Eat, Pray, Love, Turn of the S ...
...
6. Family Matters (World Lit & Big Books)
7. Peace Shall Destroy Many (Oldest Books in my Closet & CanLit)
8. Half of a Yellow Sun (Book Club and Global Literature)
I'm in Maine with Here If You Need Me; in Biafra with Half a Yellow Sun ; and in the Hudson River Valley with A Ship Made of Paper.
11. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Orange Broadband Prize Winner 2007
Excellent LT recommendation. All the main characters are sympathetic and strong. I really appreciated learning about the personal experience of people in Nigeria and the Biafran war in the late 1960's. ...
... is A Thousand Splendid Suns.
The remaining top ten are:
The Road
The Thirteenth Tale TIED with 13 mentions
Half of a Yellow Sun with 11 mentions
The Book Thief
Water for Elephants TIED with 10 mentions
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with 9 mentions
Snow Flo ...
... by Stephanie Williams
Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crewe by Bernard Hare
Honourable mentions: -
Fiction
half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Restless by William Boyd
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran ...
... he came to Canada as an adult, and the book is set in India, so I'm putting it here rather than in my CanLit group.
3. Half of a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria (completed April 2008)
4. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, Dominica (completed May 2008)
5. Silk, by Alessandro ...
... and replaced it with Plays (Oct 2008)
1. Snowflower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See (completed April 2008)
2. Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (completed April 2008)
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Our January book was Enduring Love, and our February book ...
... will be counted twice.
P.S. These seem to be the most mentioned so far:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Cloud Atlas
Half of a Yellow Sun
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Nineteen Minutes
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Book Thief
The Road
The Thirteenth Tale
The ...
... way back in the thread, can't find it now. . .) I'm going to predict The Book Thief, A Thousand Splendid Suns and Half of a Yellow Sun end up in the top five (just from skimming the posts).
I've read every one on your list, emaestra, and both Divisadero and Half of a Yellow Sun made my Favorites of 2007, while Dave Eggers' wonderful What is the What was on my 2006 list, all terrific novels.
... El (Egypt) Woman at Point Zero
The Yacoubian Building, by Alaa Al Aswany (fiction)
By the Sea, Abdulrahzah Gurnah
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Other:
Born in the Big Rains, Fadumo Korn (memoir, Somalia/Germany)
The Epic of Son-Jara, text by Fa-Digi Sisókó ...
... Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Eat ...
... Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat
23. South Africa: Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer
24. Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Most of these I read in 2007. If I remember books that I read earlier from other countries, I'll add them. I'm sure ...
... of LT recommendations (and thoroughly enjoyed, thank you). However, I moved both Blood Done Sign My Name (excellent) and Half a Yellow Sun (currently reading) up on Mt. TBR because of the great comments in LT. I'm sure there will be many more in 2008.
Half a Yellow Sun was started yesterday. I'm only a few pages in, but enjoying it so far.
... Eighty Four, George Orwell
28. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
29. Death in a Strange Country, Donna Leon
30. Half a Yellow Sun , C N Adichie
31. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
32. The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin
33. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
34. Lazybones, Mark Billi ...
... I sort of meant this for 2008 reads but what-the-hey.
I do have to credit rebeccanyc's recommendation for pushing Half of a Yellow Sun to the top of my TBR pile last year and amandameale for pushing me to read Remember Me, and Swallow the Air.
... with strong recommendations from LTers or via award lists. In no particular order...
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Black Girl, White Girl by ...
I was going to start with Half of a Yellow Sun since so many people put it on their top of 2007 list.
But instead, I have picked up In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, which seems like an appropriate way to start a new year.
... I read so many great books this year. Apologies to the books I didn't mention. ;)
In no particular order.
Fiction:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Zoli by Colum McCann ...
1. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie
3. Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
4. The Opposite House by Oyeyemi
5. Purple Hibiscus by Adichie
... are listed in alphabetical order, with quarter read in parentheses.
Fiction:
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (2)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (2)
Restoration by Rose Tremain (3)
Troubles by J.G. Farrell ...
... You Are Reading and others' 50 Book Challenge.
So I will start the year with what seems to be a 2007 favorite of many: Half of a Yellow Sun .
The best to all of you in 2008 - and good luck with your own book challenges, whatever they may be!
... which is one of the most accomplished debuts I have ever read. Granted, I read it upon publication, some time before Half of a Yellow Sun was published, but even without this coloured viewpoint, I would challenge anyone to find a novel that better describes the hipocracy of moral ...
Litfan, Purple Hibiscus, Adichie's first book may be a letdown after Half of a Yellow Sun . I was blown away by Half of a Yellow Sun (as many people know here) and then ran out to get her earlier book. It is very good, but nowhere in the same league.
I’m taking the 888 Challenge : "Read 8 books each in 8 different categories in 2008."
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Edited to move remainder of post to LT's 888 Challenge group .
Thanks avaland! As I read Half of a Yellow Sun I am increasingly curious about Nigeria's history and will be searching on wiki and google today. Literature is really such an enjoyable way to learn about history and culture.
... much more this year, so here's my top five (new reads):
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (4th quarter)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3rd)
The Railway by Hamid Ismailov (3rd)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (3rd)
Don Quixote by Miguel ...
... I really want to focus on Africa. I've gleaned quite a few recommendations from this group and am currently absorbed in Half of a Yellow Sun which is just fantastic so far. Here's my question: Africa is a very "new" continent for me; I hardly know anything about the history. I much prefer ...
#112, avaland, Yes Half of a Yellow Sun is now out in paperback, and you are kind to say that my recommendation created a ripple effect since others have suggested that I touted it at every opportunity, and possibly ad nauseum!
... Sara Gruen (won the Booksense BOTY award, 2007)
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (won the Impac/Dublin Prize, 2007)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (won the Orange Prize, 2007)
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly (won the Orange Prize for 1st novel, 2007)
The Road by ...
... Jodi Picoult
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Twilight by Stephanie Meyers
Book Thief, by Markus ...
I'm usually quite ruthless in choosing my top books but this year I have to choose six. Apologies.
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald (4)
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (3)
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (1)
Grace Notes by Ber ...
... to find new authors and titles. The Reading Globally group has taken care of that! Books I've enjoyed this year include Half of a Yellow Sun , The Book Thief, The Harmony Silk Factory, and The Yacoubian Building.
LT gave me a push to read, at last, some Ian McEwan. I loved Satu ...
... The one that stands out for me and which was read before I immersed myself in the continent for the last six months is Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A remarkable book set just prior to and during the Biafran war in the late sixties, early seventies.
I also read three ...
... 5. In the order I read them:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Q1)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Q1)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Q1)
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Q4)
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini (Q4)
I had one re- ...
Here are my favorite fiction books for 2007
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
... any of these (although I was able to eliminate some of my required reading).
Fiction, in no particular order.
Half of a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) (1)
Zoli, Colum McCann (Ireland) (1)
The Logogryph, Thomas Wharton (Canada) (1)
By the Sea, Abdulrazak Gur ...
... still love reading Bookers, Pulitzer, Nobel authors, etc. etc., I am learning about so many other books and authors on LT: Half of a Yellow Sun , The Lizard Cage, The Yacoubian Building, and Virago Modern Classics are just some examples.
And yes, then there's the social side. I've met a ...
... for the first five months of the year was mostly dominated by anglo-authors but some notable reads during that time were Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie, By the Sea by Gurnah, and Zoli by McCann (who is Irish but the book is a wonderfully, well-researched story about a Romani woman poet). ...
... the Bones is my fav book on writing... it really doesn't get much better.
There are a lot more that I absolutely love: Half of a Yellow Sun , Birds Without Wings, The Kite Runner and Middlesex ... but there would be far too many to name.
I just left Biafra/Nigeria with Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun
I'm currently headed North East with A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
And I plan to travel back in time today and begin The Known World by Edward P. Jones
I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Yes, it was an excellent, excellent work by a young author. I definitely think that everyone on this posting board should read it!
I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was definitely one of the best reads of 2007.
I finished her Purple Hibiscus last week... it was good. But, Half of a Yellow Sun was right on the mark.
Ok, of those I read that I consider POSSIBLY prize-worthy:
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Inheritance of Loss
Dreams of Speaking
Mister Pip
In the Country of Men
Digging to America
Measuring the World
Definitely NOT prize-worthy:
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Special Topics ...
Looking at the longlist (vs. avaland's library list above), I've read:
Half of a Yellow Sun
One Good Turn
The Inheritance of Loss
The Keep
What is the What
A Spot of Bother
The Road
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
While I liked most of these, I was disappointed in On ...
I was surprised to find how many of the books I've already read: Half of a Yellow Sun , The Inheritance of Loss, The Road, Alentejo Blue, One Good Turn, Water for Elephants, Black Swan Green, The Tenderness of Wolves, and The Thirteenth Tale. I'd say Half of a Yellow Sun was my ...
Carpentaria, Mister Pip, and Zoli are on my wishlist. I have read, in order of enjoyment (most to least) Half of a Yellow Sun , The Inheritance of Loss, and The Road.
It is an interesting list to mine--and I am off to increase my poor sagging wishlist!
... Carpentaria, Dreams of Speaking, Digging to America, and Wizard of the Crow already in my TBR pile and I have read Half of a Yellow Sun , Zoli, Mister Pip, The Road, and The Inheritance of Loss.
Has anyone read any of these?
btw, the list by nominating library is avaland in The Prizes : IMPAC/Dublin Prize (Nov 25, 2007, 8:08pm)
... have repeated recommendations).
*Canadian libraries seem to like The Birth House and Law of Dreams.
*England likes Half of a Yellow Sun and The Tenderness of Wolves
*Germany likes Measuring the World.
*Ireland likes Winterwood
*New Zealand, as expected, like Mister Pip but ...
... the Group profile page shows a lesser amount, and so is an older number).
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe (91)
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (49)
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (92)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (114)
Jane Eyre ...
... came back with:-
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Small Island by Andrea Levy
And Another Thing by Jeremy Clarkson
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
May tbr pile grows forever higher.
35 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
36 The Twenty One BalloonsWilliam Pene du Bois
37 Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins
38 PersepolisMarjane Satrapi
39 Crispin The Cross of LeadAvi
Nzingha, As people here may be tired of hearing me say, Half of a Yellow Sun was my favorite book of last year. Just amazing.
... a book but keep reading it anyway because it's worth reading, that's when I'd class it as serious. A recent case would be Half of a Yellow Sun , which isn't exactly a fun jolly read. It is an amazing book though, so I kept reading through all the horrors because it was an excellently written ...
... look it out :-) I'm sorry I've taken so long to respond, I went away and didn't see the thread for a while. Also, reading Half of a Yellow Sun was so amazing I think I wanted to have a while before returning to Africa, bookwise at least!
But thank you, I'll look forward to hearing what you ...
Another one that recently got me was Half of a Yellow Sun . Again on a bus. What is it about me and buses?? Anyway, a highly recommended book. Everyone should read it.
... hy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
The Lizard Cage, Karen Connelly
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Half of a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Also:
The Yacoubian Building, The Book of Lost Things, Out Stealing Horses, The Mem ...
I think my top five in order would have to be:
1. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which was just phenomenal and everyone should read it.
2. The Railway by Hamid Ismailov, a great satirical novel (mostly) about Soviet life in Uzbekistan.
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker ...
... exceedingly readable and enjoyable translation. It's very silly and I'm loving it!
I've come there via Nigeria, and Half of a Yellow Sun , which I thought was just amazing and extremely powerful. I was quite ashamed how utterly clueless I was about the Nigerian civil war and I think she ...
... The Yacoubian Building (review) - Alaa Al Aswany
Nigeria - Half of a Yellow Sun (review) - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sierra Leone - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Sold ...
3rd quarter BESTS (in order):
1. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamnada Ngozi Adichie
3. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
4. In the Fall by Jeffery Lent
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni
... subject and proximity in time when I read them, I couldn't pick one over the other
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
... by Dan Simmons.
I really enjoyed it. Very gripping, even if a bit wordy.
Next up is The Thirteenth Tale, then Half of a Yellow Sun .
... ille
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
4. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam
5. Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6. Mr. Pip, by Lloyd Jones
7. When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. The Memory Keeper's Daughter, ...
... It just takes a while to get sucked into that book, but your patience is rewarded.
I am reading two great books so far. Half of a Yellow Sun which is living up to its' hype. And a little known gem - In the Fall by Jeffery Lent -- a post Civil War fiction set in rural Vermont that is ...
I found Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie absolutely un-finishable - SOOOOOOO disappointing. Incredibly fragmented, jumping back and forth between the early and late 60s, as well as being divided, chapter by chapter, between three different characters. I just couldn't get into ...
Kell- Half a Yellow Sun is in my TBR pile. I have heard mixed reviews of it--either you love it or you don't. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan was a favorite of mine as was Memory Keepers Daughter. I will be interested in your thoughts about Half of a Yellow Sun once you finish it as well ...
... a quick update!
4. Blink: the power of thinking without thinking
5. Harry Potter 6
6. Harry Potter 7
7. Half of a Yellow Sun
8. The Road--yuck! at least it was a fast read.
I've just started The Corrections and am loving it! I've also been reading A Confederacy of Du ...
Still struggling with Half of a Yellow Sun and wondering what all the fuss is about Adichie's writing, because I really can't see it - I'm finding it mostly dull and very ponderous to read. If it hasn't picked up in another 50 pages, I'm ditching it.
I was a bit disappointed at bored with Purple Hibiscus, so I'm really hoping I fare better with Half of a Yellow Sun . I've only just started it, so I can't really say yet whether or not it's doing anything for me (I haven't even reached the 50-page mark yet). After being so disappointed by the ...
... in a very long time - well worth giving it a go, even if it's not what would usually attract you.
Next I'll be reading Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as it's the Posh Club choice for this month and the meeting is next Tuesday, so I'd better get a move on!
This week I will be mostly reading:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'll also be listening to an audio book of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
I gave up on Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Review posted at http://360.yahoo.com/woodbear97
I've moved on to A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies by Ellen Cooney. Maybe something not so quite literary will suit me better right now.
DNF - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche.
Next #42 - A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies by Ellen Cooney.
15) Half of a Yellow Sun (ongoing)
16) The Red Dahlia
And I've just started The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
... an ARE from Early Reviewers and Random House. Review is posted at http://360.yahoo.com/woodbear97
I've moved on to Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
DNF - The Guardians by Ana Castillo. Review at http://360.yahoo.com/woodbear97
Moving on to 42 - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
... titles often missing from undergrad libraries (or reading lists) that ought to be included? rebeccanyc - we've already got Half of a yellow sun .
... I think I had the country name in there earlier and edited the message leaving it rather unclear :-s
On the plus side, Half of a Yellow Sun is undoubtedly near the top of my tbr pile and I might just shift it up a bit now :-)
... because it's not stylistically challenging but has some very interesting themes to work with. Any other suggestions? Not Half of a Yellow Sun , please. I'm not bound to old venerable works of literature, but something it's a little too recent.
This is about as far as I've gotten in my ...
... word to describe something that was in no way good because of the subject matter but was very well written. For example, Half of a Yellow Sun , What is the What were both about horrible wars. Both very much worth reading. Also, Speak, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Cut are all ...
... to Liz T, for Nigeria, I can wholeheartedly (and perhaps to the point of excess, as others on LT can attest) recommend Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Easily my favorite book of last year, it is a beautifully written, carefully plotted, psychologically and emotionally ...
... I have choices when I finish one and move onto another:
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery (reading circle)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (reading circle)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (reading circle)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ...
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been picked as August's book for one of the reading circles of which I'm a member, so here goes with another Nigerian entry. I hope I enjoy it more than I did Purple Hibiscus (which I just found vaguely dull)...
Synopsis:
With the ...
... that I am...).
And then the long list comes out and I'm usually desperately disappointed - last year I had bet 100 quid on Half of a Yellow Sun winning and then it wasn't even longlisted , pah.
Today's the day, though...
I just left North Carolina in Special Topics in Calamity Physics, and now I'm in Nigeria with Half of a Yellow Sun .
... Inheritance of Loss, last year's winner, by Kiran Desai to name just one example.
And this year's Orange Prize winner, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I also had a slog with.
Prizes do introduce you to writers or genres you might not otherwise have tried.
... I doubt I'll get much time or peace for reading!):
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery (reading circle)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (reading circle)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (reading circle)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ...
... if you're a member of the "The Reading Loft" online book group at Yahoo? The reason I ask is I noticed you're reading Half of a Yellow Sun ? by Chimamanda Nogzi Adichie.
Marcia
... I manage to get a bit of peace and quiet:
1. Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery (reading circle choice)
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Posh Club)
3. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
...
... I'm not in the mood for one or the other of them):
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery (reading circle choice)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (reading circle choice)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa S ...
... through The name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, and next up will be Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
I borrowed Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from the library today, as it's the Posh Club choice for August.
... the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Lost Light by Michael Connelly
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
... Potter and the Deathly Hallows on Saturday, finished Jodi Picoult's The Tenth Circle on Sunday. My commuting read is now Half of a Yellow Sun , and my bedtime book is Innocent Traitor.
It's a while since I had more than one on the go, but I'm really enjoying the non-Harry Potter-ness of ...
... Corrections
Saturday
The Road
Slaughterhouse Five
oooh, what's that one the library has waiting for me? Oh yeah, Half of a Yellow Sun , a recent LT suggestion!
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Cha ...
#40, cestovatela, There are many reasons I thought Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the best new books I've read in a long time. Probably most importantly, I thought that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a marvelous ability to develop complex and interesting characters, place them in difficult ...
I am still in Nigeria, having just finished Purple Hibiscus and now working on Half of a Yellow Sun . This one is taking me a little longer to get into for some reason.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Shadow Baby byAlison McGhee
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
It seemed that so many people loved Half of a Yellow Sun . I did find it informative about the Nigerian civil war, but I'm not sure I understand the intense love some people feel for it. To me, the parts before the war were beautifully written every day friendships and relationships but after ...
I have to do a top 5 for fiction and a couple more for nonfiction--too hard to decide!
Fiction:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (2)
Troubles by J.G. Farrell (1)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (2 ...
I just finished Purple Hibiscus. I very much enjoyed it. Thanks to all who recommended it. I have Half a Yellow Sun from the library also and I think I might read that one next.
1. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1)
2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2)
3. The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (1)
4. Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty (2)
5. Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (2)
... in the north in Morrocco; The Good Doctor and The Long Silence of Mario Salviati set in the south, and, of course, Half of a Yellow Sun in the west in Nigeria - all these books in relationship to the fundamental regional differences in the continent.
66. The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
67. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
68. The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III - Ian Mortimer
... The search for delicious
blue shoes and happiness
Dark places kate Grenville
the sultans harem
wishlist
half a yellow sun
water for elephants
year of wonders
#68 TussahSilk There's a party on Book Talk to celebrate Half of a Yellow Sun winning the Orange Prize. You might like to drop in.
#To whoever wished me good luck with The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek: I made to the end of this rather harrowing novel. Found the writing quite ...
... The Kite Runner, but other members of my book club rated it highly so I am hoping for a good read. I've just finished Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which I thought was beautifully written.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee
I haven't been ranking my reads, other than to make some notes when I've finished the book. I ...
... ar:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*******
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas by David ...
... to read something in the next two weeks that will make the list, here's mine (except for #1, no particular order):
1. Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1)
* By the Sea by Abdulrahak Gurnah(1)
* Gravedigger's Daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates (2)
* Zoli, ...
... these are my 5:
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1)
2. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (1)
3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 2007 Orange Prize Winner! (1)
4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2)
5. A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Man ...
... another planet (just to stick with Sc-Fi theme) What was this about an Orange Prize win by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun , never read it?
*Dances to Nigerian music, Spills stew all over outfit and generally makes an embarrassment of herself*
... If that makes sense. There's a bit of wise humour there too...
Please, go back into that store and buy it!
What with Half of a Yellow Sun winning the Orange, I'm completely made up - my two best reads of 2006!
Avaland, I have Half of a Yellow Sun in my TBR pile and cannot wait to read it now. This party is great!! Thanks for hosting.
... announcement of the winner. How sad is that.
For the record, I have never been happier about a prizewinner than I am now. Half of a Yellow Sun is a masterpeice. Look forward to joining in next year!
(By the way, has anyone read the First Novel winner, Lizard Cage)? I'm about to start.
Hope ...
... the choices above, and disagree with some others (that's what happens when you're late to the party . . ).
Repeats:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie (surprise, surprise)
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The View from Cast ...
... sisters birthday I gave her:
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She has a young family so she has been reading books from the library and not buying any books so she hasn't read many new ...
... Atwood
Idea of Perfection or The Secret River, Kate Grenville
Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
Half of a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*sip, sip. puts glass down*
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
The History of Love, Nicole Kraus
Brick ...
... for the big cross country move in a few weeks, thusly, my reading time and concentration have been compromised.
Half of a yellow sun , however, is the book that will accompany me on the way. Thank you, my dear intelligent, beautiful friends, for inspiring me and my library!
Cheers ...
... since we are spread all over the world but we want to celebrate the recent Orange Prize win by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun . Thus, here is a place to have our party and celebrate. You are all invited (readers and future readers of Ms. Adichie's work)!
It's potluck (bring ...
... from my point of view and was genuinely embarrassed to somewhat agree with me, and asked for recommendations. I gave him Half of a Yellow Sun , A Thread of Grace, and a few others as food for thought.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor
The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Great news! Half A Yellow Sun won! At last! See http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/winners.php4.
...
I guess I need to also weigh in on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's wonderful books - I can recommend them both, but I think Half of a Yellow Sun is the better of the two.
>59: rebeccanyc,
What a surprise for you to weigh in on Half of a Yellow Sun !! *wink*
#55, 58 Purple Hibiscus is a very good book, but Half of A Yellow Sun is orders of magnitude better, showing how a writer can really mature.
... review of Purple Hibiscus in my livejournal. I requested it from Bookmooch because I had heard so many good things about Half of a Yellow Sun . I'd really like to read it too, but sadly it hasn't shown up on Bookmooch or at my local used bookstore.
... on The Purple Hibiscus. I've seen it recommended by several LTers. And, I absolutely loved her more recent book Half of a Yellow Sun , which I read based on rabid enthusiasm on threads like this one. You oughta check this one out also.
I just recently read Half of a Yellow Sun and it is indeed a quite powerful book.
My favorite african novel not written by an african writer still remains the poisonwood bible
... 27, 28, 29, 30 ... WOW!
I'm adding The Secret River to my TBR right this minute. This discussion is reminiscent of your Half of a Yellow Sun evangelism, and the LT affinity thingie says I like what you all like so ... thanks for adding to my reading list!!
avaland, #5, I agree with you -- I would like to have more of a choice about what to review.
And PS, the publishers of Half of a Yellow Sun should offer me a whole bunch of free books (just kidding)!
... asked...) It makes one feel less manipulated, but that's just me.
Just think what we LTers have done for them with Half of a Yellow Sun !
Now, if they invited me to look through their forthcoming winter catalogs and choose one book to review - that's something I might jump at!
... Follett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Anything by John Steinbeck
The Wor ...
... kson
Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
... my package in the mail from amazon yesterday and think I definitely need to stop buying books temporarily. It included:
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Josephine - Carolly Erickson
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Over Sea, Under ...
... been well-received by others (e.g rebeccanyc) but when I keep looking at how many pages to go every ten minutes then I know Half of a Yellow Sun hasn't worked for me.
#25 and #26, In addition to the reasons amandameale gives, I loved Half of a Yellow Sun because I thought the author was able to interweave complex issues and complex characters without being the least bit "preachy" or didactic.
#25 I think the popularity of Half of a Yellow Sun is due to: it's nicely written; the characters have depth, especially Ugwu and Olanna; the setting (time and place) is remarkable to those of us who knew nothing about the war or Nigeria.
Do you hate it OR are you a victim of too much hype?
I referred in my post(no.16) that I was reading Half of a Yellow Sun . Is it me? I thought it would be some sort of masterpiece from comments I've noticed.
If I don't finish it I'll definitely get hold of non-fiction dealing with the war in Nigeria as I'm ashamed that aside from being aware ...
I have just finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which was excellent even though I know nothing about Nigerian history.
I have just started The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde which also looks to be a good read.
... a Mockingbird - back in the forefront because of the new biography of Harper Lee and perhaps the two Capote movies.
Half of a Yellow Sun will be out in paperback this fall - there is certainly lots to talk about there. It's hard to blindly recommend without knowing a little bit about the ...
#58 lindsacl
You will definitely like Things Fall Apart. The setting is different to Half of a Yellow Sun . The former is about tribal culture just before the missionaries arrived.
Like amandameale, I'm in Nigeria too, but with Half of a Yellow Sun
I'm a 100 pages in to Half of a Yellow sun which it appears many of you have read. Many Years ago I read Things Fall Apart and was struck by how well written it was, conveying the experience of colonialism so vividly and in such an undoctrinaire way.
Started Things Fall Apart by Chinua Abeche (Nigeria) which was listed in the back of Half of a Yellow Sun .
I finished The Darling, by Russell Banks, tonight. I suspect I would have liked this better if I hadn't read Half of a Yellow Sun so recently. While they both have at the heart bloody wars in African countries, The Darling just have the immediacy or the emotional wallop of Adichie's ...
... on Mortality by Pauline Chen
5. Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn
N.B. I read Half of a Yellow Sun last year, and loved it!
... Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The March by E. L. Doctorow on the Civil War, particularly Sherman's march
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie on the Nigeria/Biafra war and much more
I can probably think of more later. These may not all be appropriate for a 13-year ...
#93 avaland: Thanks for the summary above - hope you'll do it again next quarter. I was so interested in Half of a Yellow Sun I didn't notice the others.
A quick glance over the first quarter posts suggests Half of a Yellow Sun is the big winner for new books with On Chesil Beach, The Road, and The Book Thief as distant runners-up. Not that we can really claim winners as we all collectively read such a range of books. Interesting, I read ...
Started Chimamanda Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus -- it's very good but not in the same league as Half of a Yellow Sun , so I'm glad I read that first. So this is now along with The Omnivore's Dilemna by Michael Pollan and, very slowly, john Lynch's biography of Simon Boliv ...
... Gladwell I heard him speak and have been curious about his books. Also detoured into the remainder book store and found Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie After all the praise by LTers, I put this book on my list to read. I also picked up A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel ...
I left Nigeria and Biafra in Half of a Yellow Sun enlightened and melancholy, stopped in Absurdistan, but became so impatient with the droll nature of the populace, I left for Japan in Spring Snow. I'll probably be summoned back to Absurdistan this weekend because I left without a visa. ;-)
... from one's country and culture which could be applied universally.
I also read Adichie's beautiful book. I would give Half of a Yellow Sun the edge over The Inheritance of Loss - but then I think Adichie is one of the most talented writers I've encountered!
I've read Half of a Yellow Sun and The Inheritance of Loss and am a huge Anne Tyler fan.
I loved, loved, loved Adichie's work and my vote would have to go to her for just overall excellence. Unlike a lot of people, I enjoyed Desai's novel - I found it to be a thoughtful read with ...
... not. I took that bag to the car and then went back to the sale. I walked out with a number of ARC's (including a copy of Half of a Yellow Sun on the strength of recommendations from LTers), a few sci-fi titles (including some Harry Turtledove titles that I didn't own yet), and some other ...
... not. I took that bag to the car and then went back to the sale. I walked out with a number of ARC's (including a copy of Half of a Yellow Sun on the strength of recommendations from LTers), a few sci-fi titles (including some Harry Turtledove titles that I didn't own yet), and some other ...
Yes, I also think Half of a Yellow Sun will make it through to December, but will it still be in the top spot. Hmmm. The more books i read the harder it gets because for some books it's like comparing apples and oranges.
I think we can work both the separate quarter lists idea with the ...
... year, my list skewed towards books I had read towards the end of the year, because I remembered them more easily (although Half of a Yellow Sun would have made it even if I hadn't just read it in October) . So this will help "keep me honest!"
Of my first quarter favorites, I think Troubles ...
Yes, I like the idea of tracking books. I'm pretty sure that Half of a Yellow Sun will make it all the way to December.
...
These just arrived yesterday.
The LT-inspired:
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Gravity National Park: Poems by C. L. Rawlins
Others Including some Florida and Texas classics. Grew ...
Keeping my fingers crossed for Half of a Yellow Sun , but I haven't read any of the others except the disappointing (for me) The Inheritance of Loss. Read a lot of Anne Tyler years ago and wouldn't put her in Adichie's league.
... the pile". Having only read the Desai and the Adichie, it's hard to say, but having read a fair amount of the past winners, Half of a Yellow Sun would be my pick for a prize that awards for excellence, originality and accessibility.
... goodness, where is avaland's post??!!!!
The shortlist for the Orange Broadband Prize for fiction has been announced.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionar ...
... Hibiscus, so am eager to read your impressions.
Also, if you like it, you may want to try Adichie's more recent book, Half of a Yellow Sun . This has been much-discussed on LT and was FANTASTIC.
#82 (Bazling) - Purple Hibiscus is WONDERFUL. If you like it, I also recommend Adiche's newest novel: Half Of A Yellow Sun ...one of the best books of the year.
#100 (HMOKeefe) how are you liking Ghostwritten? I have read Black Swan Green and am currently reading Cloud Atlas by this ...
At avaland's suggestion, I reposting her a post I made on the Half of Yellow Sun discussion page at http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=7203
By the way, there was an ad in the NY Times yesterday (i.e., Friday) congratulating the winners of the 2007 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, and ...
... make the half-year lists in June. But which one?
And the suspense! Will I read a novel which will knock my current #1 Half of a Yellow Sun out of its top spot? I find this highly unlikely but the prospect is intriguing...
... the way, there was an ad in the NY Times yesterday congratulating the winners of the 2007 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, and Half of a Yellow Sun won one of the prizes.
I had never heard of this prize before, so I quote from the ad: "For 72 years, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has honored ...
... recently so I suspected it might be released sooner.
>61 amanda, A Thread of Grace will be an interesting follow-up to Half of a Yellow Sun , both being novels set in wartime. Russell's novel has a much bigger cast of characters though. The first 75-100 pages or so it slow going as she ...
**Recommended
APRIL
15. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)***
16. Coonardoo by Katherine Susannah Prichard (Australia)**
17. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (USA)**
18. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell**
19. The Five Pe ...
I haven't posted for a couple of weeks. Finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Wonderful book. Finished Coonardoo by Katherine Susannah Prichard - an insight into life on an Australian cattle station c.1929 and the relations between blacks and whites.
Reading now ...
... Ephron after a melancholy time with A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion this past week. I'm looking forward to Half a Yellow Sun next.
Thanks to all the LibraryThing energy (I'm a newbie of a few months) I've rediscovered my love of reading and have realized that time is finite- ...
After finishing the excellent By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah (highly recommended to Half of a Yellow Sun fans), last night I started Light by Margaret Elphinstone BUT this afternoon I picked up, once again, The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates. I had set it aside some time ago ...
Finally. I've been waiting until I finished the book to come on this thread. Half of a Yellow Sun is, to me, a perfect novel. I was drawn in by every single sentence and the larger issues concerning the war were heart-wrenching. I've thought a lot about this novel. One thing I noticed is that Ad ...
... enjoy. Not my favorite reading quarter ever, but like someone else said, still nine months to go. I can't wait to check out Half of a Yellow Sun
though.
I have 10 listed, but whittled it down to the best 5 of that 10:
1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinb ...
I must get this Half of a Yellow Sun ! =)
My top five so far, in order:
1) The book thief - Zusak
2) The conjurer's bird - Davies
3) Abundance - Naslund
4) White Oleander - Fitch
5) Dear John - Sparks
... Ryan
4. Where Is the Mango Princess? by C.E. Crimmins
With all the recommendations above, I'll have to check out Half of a Yellow Sun for sure!
I'm going to hold my list to 3 for now:
1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Suite Francaise
3. Half of a Yellow Sun
I would join the Half of A Yellow Sun crowd, except I read it in 2006!
So far, for 2007, I can only come up with 4 favorites:
Troubles by J.G. Farrell - thanks to a recommendation here!
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
...
... the other day--I've had such a great reading year and am finding it very hard to narrow it down to five. I'll say:
1. Half of a Yellow Sun , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. The Circus Fire, Stewart O'Nan
3. Queen Margot, Alexandre Dumas
4. Troubles, J.G. Farrell
5. Young Men & Fir ...
... I'm claiming so far:
1. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
2. Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
3. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda N. Adichie
4. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
5. Jamestown - Matthew Sharpe
If Half of a Yellow Sun does not win this prize I just won't understand.
I'm so glad you asked...
1. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
3. Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
4. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
... list. So far I have read: Black Swan Green (touchstone not loading), The Inheritance of Loss, Suite Francaise Half of a Yellow Sun , and Old Filth.
I've enjoyed all of these to varying degrees, but I'd say Half of a Yellow Sun and Suite Francaise are my favorites so far.
>20: cabegley, I, too was inspired by rebeccanyc's and avaland's recommendation. Half of a Yellow Sun was excellent. This also motivated me to read more of tne New York Times' notable fiction from 2006.
I'll second avaland on rebeccanyc's (and avaland's!) recommendations of Half of a Yellow Sun as my inspiration to read what is so far my favorite book of my 2007 reads. Another great one, which I finished in the past week, was Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean. rebeccanyc was also one of ...
... in the Prizes Group, that it was a favorite book.
I must also thank rebeccanyc for her enthusiastic endorsement of Half of a Yellow Sun which made me move the book to the top of the TBR pile! And to nunatak for her endorsement of Zoli.
All three of these books are at the top of ...
... to learn to coordinate or sync this with the desktop upstairs. I will look forward to hearing what you have to say about Half of a Yellow Sun which still stands as my top 2007 novel thus far.
...
It's been a busy couple of weeks - and I'm still getting to know this new Mac book!
I am looking forward to reading Half of a Yellow Sun which seems to be so highly recommended of late!
13. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - review
14. Half of a Yellow Sun - review
Half of a Yellow Sun was my favorite this month.
lindsacl in 50 Book Challenge : Favourite book of March? (Mar 26, 2007, 9:43am)By a longshot: Half of a Yellow Sun , which I just finished last night.
I'm participating in a reading challenge based on the New York Times' Notable Books for 2006.
Having just finished Half of a Yellow Sun (mentioned in my post #49), next up for me is Old Filth by Jane Gardam.
#13 Read all of his books.
I'm reading Half of A Yellow Sun and have found it immediately engaging. I like the prose style, the characters and the setting.
8: lizzier, I too am reading Half of a Yellow Sun and absolutely loving it. I have really been looking forward to this book based on the recommendations on this site!
... On Chesil Beach, the latest Ian McEwan yesterday, which will be read as soon as possible - tonight. In the middle of Half of a yellow sun , which I picked up from a Library on impulse and so far it is proving to be stunningly good. It's immensely readable and I can hardly bear to put it ...
I've landed in Nigeria, where several of you have already been - Half of a Yellow Sun .
... copy was published by Heineman in th african Writers series in 1964, and again in 1987 in the US. For those of you reading half of a yellow sun about the effect of an african civil war (nigeria, Biafra) on an upper class family, here is a book about the effect of an african civil war on a poor ...
I plan to start Half of a Yellow Sun tonight (only my need to earn a living is keeping me from it right now! Although I am obviously procrastinating on that, too, if I'm writing this ... oh well).
I have heard so many good things about this book, I can't wait.
yes, that was exactly my experience with Half of a Yellow Sun . The first chapter completely reeled me in. I will be interested in hearing of your progress through the book...
... of the author.
I would suggest you wait for the shortlist - if it ain't on it, don't read it. In comparison, I started Half of a Yellow Sun last night and immediately fell in love with the prose style, the setting, the characters, and I only read one chapter.
Visit to my local library last night. Picked up a hold request, Half of a Yellow Sun , which I am so looking forward to based on many recommendations on this site. While there, since I couldn't resist browsing, I used my LibraryThing Mobile to look for other books in my TBR pile and found Old Fi ...
... liked switching between the perspectives of the characters in India and the one in New York. That said, I think Half of a Yellow Sun is the superior novel.
... Observations, Carry Me Down and Digging To America. Of these Diggiing to America is my favourite. Think I must read Half of a Yellow Sun because of all the good reviews.
...
Remember the award is for excellence, originality and accessibility... I can't imagine anything being able to beat out Half of a Yellow Sun in my mind.
... d
The 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction longlist is announced.
The 20 books are
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare
Rachel Cusk Arlington Park
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Patricia Ferguson Periphe ...
Well, darn it all. My next book, Half of a Yellow Sun , is sitting in my local library, just awaiting my pickup. After a nasty ice storm last night I set out to the library. And I found it CLOSED! Was it the ice, I wondered? The roads were fine, really ...
Then a woman emerged to empty ...
How sad, still no award for Half of a Yellow Sun .
>113 rebeccanyc, I echo >116 avaland. Half of a Yellow Sun is now top of my TBR and -- oh happy day -- awaiting my pickup at the library.
I just have to race thru my current read, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, first.
Not to worry, rebecca, Half of a Yellow Sun was a great one, and I've been recommending it a lot too.
cabegley #106, So glad you enjoyed Half of a Yellow Sun -- I recommended it so enthusiastically and so often that I was starting to worry people wouldn't read it/like it.
Today I completed the entrancing and emotionally devastating Half of a Yellow Sun --thank you to all of the LTers who brought this book to my attention. The characters were so well realized, and I was fascinated by the history and social impact of this civil war. I ended the book and just sat, ...
... California with Daughter of Fortune. Conditions are grim but the reading is fine.
Thanks to many of you, I've added Half of a Yellow Sun to my TBR pile...
Predictions:
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
... there's no accounting for taste. I found The Inheritance of Loss extremely disappointing and, as people here know, think Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the best new books I've read in years.
Following in the footsteps of others, I am in Nigeria with Half of a Yellow Sun .
#130 cabegley, please let us know what you think about Half of a Yellow Sun when you've finished! (also, please, on the specific thread on the Reading Globally group)
... night with a torch--all British English I am fully able to translate, but out of place in Texas.
I am now about to start Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a book I am eagerly looking forward to after the raves by people on LT whose opinions I respect.
ack! I don't know where I am. I've started 6 books since Half of a Yellow Sun - George Eliot's first novel, Joyce Carol Oates forthcoming one, also a new Trezza Azzopardi, a novel by Roberto Bolano a contemporary Chilean author, and a book on Literary Theory - all of which I expect to be terrific ...
I'm still reading Half of a Yellow Sun ; I'm about halfway through and taking my time. Echoing rebeccanyc, who touted this book weeks maybe months ago, everyone who enjoys excellent literary fiction should read this book. All is revealed through the experiences of her characters, who are so well-dr ...
weird, my message posted with no text....
anyway, I'm in Nigeria with Half of a Yellow Sun . The story is just getting warmed up, but the characters are quite compelling. We are supposed to be having a big snowstorm tomorrow, I know what I will be doing...
... (sorry, no spoilers here). This woman makes full use of her power to create a secure future for herself.
Now, I'm on to Half of a Yellow Sun and Africa. I'm also reading an older poetry collection by Carol Anne Duffy entitled, The World's Wife. The poems are in the voices of various wives. ...
... decided to read Behind a Mask, a fairly quick novella by Louisa May Alcott, as a literary palate cleanser before I start Half of a Yellow Sun . And since I just put my first audio book on my new ipod, I will be listening to The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro in various interims and at ...
... new novel, Zoli...what an incredible story! So well-crafted, so vivid, so moving in places. I have planned to read Half of a Yellow Sun next but I need a day or two. Zoli is going to linger in my mind....
Half of a Yellow Sun is next according to the plan, but that was the plan when I reached for Zoli instead. And who knows, I might need a literary palate cleanser between the two!
Well, at the moment I'm not in an especially thoughtful mode either, rebecca, but I finished Half of a Yellow Sun last night, and it was just exceptional all the way through, and will certainly be one of my favorites of this year.
cerievans1, Restless: a novel was one of my favorites from last year too, and I'm just past halfway in Half of a Yellow Sun , just a terrific book so far.
... so once again I'm off 'procedurals' for the duration.
Right now I'm nearly a hundred pages into Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and enjoying it quite a bit so far.
... by the lack of female authors. I have vowed to try to rectify it later this year, and get stuck into some female authors. Half of a Yellow Sun will be one of the first, partly because it looks very good, but partly because I am scared rebeccanyc will become violent if we don't all read it soon. ...
... about war in general.
And, equally of course, I would not miss an opportunity to praise Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun which partly takes place during, and gives a lot of insight into, the Biafra/Nigeria war and its aftermath, from the Igbo (more commonly, at least in ...
Of course, I was happy to see Half of A Yellow Sun on the list, since I've been touting it as one of my favorite books of 2006 and, indeed, of many years. Neither Cormac McCarthy or Dave Eggers have appealed to me in the past, but I've been thinking of reading their current books, the Egg ...
... in the least interested in Kiran Desai's book either, so I definitely won't be reading that one, but I've got a copy of Half of a Yellow Sun I'll be getting to before too long.
... of the Land by Richard Ford
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Edited to say this is the fiction list, published in the NY Times. Will check the web site later for other categories, ...
Following nycrebecca's advice, I'm in Nigeria/Biafra with Half of a yellow sun . It reminds me of some of the partition novels, such as cracking india.
edit: sorry - meant rebeccanyc.
I seem to bring this book up in as many contexts as possible, but Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie certainly gives a lot of perspective on the impact of British colonialism on Nigeria. I'm sure I'll think of some more.
avaland, I agree that Half of a Yellow Sun would be great for the Orange, and I believe it is also eligible for the Booker, since Nigeria is still, I think, a member of the British Commonwealth. I won't make a prediction about it, but it certainly deserves any prize it can get.
(edited by the author to eliminate confusing information)
I'd like to see either Adichie's Half a Yellow Sun OR Grenville's A Secret River win the Orange Prize. I'm not sure the Grenville qualifies though, it wasn't on the Orange Prize lists last year but was on the Booker shortlist. It was ...
... in the US, although I did order a big book of collected stories from Amazon.uk.
My favorite book finds are a tie between Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie, a somewhat grim but beautifully told story with interesting characters facing their own personal issues and the Nigeria/Biafr ...
... cooking yesterday, and cleaning today, I can't wait to get back to reading!)
depressaholic, glad you're taking me up on Half of a Yellow Sun , definitely one of my best books of 2006.
... recognize Leskov's name so...you know how these things go...
In fact, I bought it the same day I picked up a copy of Half of a Yellow Sun because someone, and it may have been you, rebeccanyc, listed it as their number 1 book of the year in the "What are You Reading Group". I have her ...
depressaholic, if you're interested in West Africa, try Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun , set in Nigeria before, during, and after the Biafra war. Part of it are grim, but it's a brilliant book, one of my favorites of 2006.
Great group idea!
Africa (Nigeria) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie, one of my favorite books of the year
Middle East (Egypt) The Yacoubian Building by Ala Al Aswany
South America (Colombia) Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (not fiction, but ...
Out of the books I've read in 2006, the favorites that first come to mind are:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Them by Francine du Plessix Gray
Just got back from a week away, and so much to read in LT groups, but I had to start here with Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. This is absolutely the best book I've read by a new/young writer in many years. It is beautifully written and brings out so many complexities of ...
For a week-long trip with lots of anticipated reading time, I'm bringing the new The Paris Review Interviews I, Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie, Vikram Seth's An Equal Music, My Name is Red as my first Orhan Pamuk work, and a collection of Gogol short stories. I don't ...
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