I’m grounded. Going back to school full time (in addition to my full time career) has left me with little in the way of travel resources. I’ll be sticking exclusively with armchair adventures until I finish my second degree. Not that I mind that much. I have a boundless imagination and easily get swept up […]
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WanderLit Read: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
It would be difficult to drop any spoilers for The God of Small Things. Instead of surprising the reader with a plot twist, Roy creates a weird haunting tension by showing you the pivotal events first. After you already know the spoilers, she backtracks to disclose the events leading up to them. It is those events, those “small things” that hold importance.
WanderLit Weekend Read – Baking Cakes in Kigali
Who doesn’t like a book of secrets? There is a married man cheating on his wife. A single bachelor with a good job is looking for a romantic interest. A shop keeper is hoping her boyfriend will marry her. But Angel and her family live in Rwanda where the common secretes people keep are complicated. The married man works for the CIA. The bachelor declines to get involved with a woman that had been raped with a machete because she can’t have children. The shop keeper is Hutu while her Tutsi boyfriend was orphaned in the genocide. Though they were just children in 1994, her mother is in prison as a génocidaire.