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April’s nonfiction book of the month, picked by my followers!

This is a very easy and quick read.

I have seen the movie already, so I possibly know how all of this book plays out. Starting off, I was getting annoyed with the writing because it feels so simple and awkward, but it evens out eventually. I still think the writing is simple, but I’ve gotten used to it, so it doesn’t bother me.

I don’t know why she would have ever written the addresses on the letters. Obviously, it's there to make the book work, but I don’t understand the logic of it. It would be great if this gets addressed in the book somehow.

I finished this before I went to bed this morning. I really liked it. Sometimes the writing was a little too simple for me. I think it was kind of simple overall, but the Daddy and Mommy stuff was weird for me. Like I definitely have called my dad, Daddy and I know many people still do, but it always reads weird in writing. Like I think Mom and Dad would have been a better fit. It was something that I got used to as I read, but it was so annoying when the book started.

Very fluffy and sweet book. Pretty much the same as the movie except it seems like the beginning of the next book became the end of the first movie. I’ll probably start the second one tomorrow.

A brief session today.

Another quick session today. I slept late and then the power was out and I didn’t have light to read by, so I went back to bed. I woke up when it came on.

This section was good. The first being about how Ifemelu was settling in with her new babysitting job and slowly improving things. She still will not talk to her boyfriend from home, Obinze. She ignores his emails and phone calls and he wrote a letter, and she won’t read it. She doesn’t know how to move forward because she knows she will have to tell him about what happened with that man and she can’t do it yet. She is healing from that moment, but I think it still lingers with her. 

Then another part was about her finding her voice again. She had been using an American accent so people wouldn’t judge her or think her simple and after a telemarketer told her she sounded American after she told him she was Nigerian; she stopped. She reclaimed that part of herself. Next she meets a man named Blaine on the train. The book starts with her dating and leaving a man named Blaine because she is moving back to Nigeria, so again it is interesting to see these parts play out that I know is part of her life. They had a fantastic time on the train and exchanged numbers, but he did not call back. But the reader knows something happens because she ends up with him.