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January 11, 2019

Using Humour to Teach Shakespeare

By Nicholas Provenzano I’m an English teacher, and one of the hardest units for me to cover with my freshman students used to be Romeo and Juliet. There’s nothing more awkward than having students stand and read from a giant

February 7, 2018

A Review of Unparalleled Emotions by Olivia Nsofor

Unparalleled Emotions is a collection of poems by Olivia Nsofor. The collection is divided into seven parts which are: Issues of the heart Lonely blues Death (Reality or subconscious) Emotions x bad exes Love’s louvres God’s recommendations: Messages of

January 8, 2018

Book Review: 40 First Jobs

Stories with happy endings don’t always start great, and those with great beginnings may not necessarily end well. Many of the people we now regard as role models did not have it smooth. While many of them will readily reveal the “downtimes”

May 16, 2017

Summary of The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi

The book the gods are not to blame is the dramatic tale of a man Odewale born with a destiny he tried to run away from. At birth when his Parents took him to the village diviner the Ogun

May 3, 2017

The Marriage of Opposites Review – Pissarro’s Mother as Intoxicating Heroine

In 1830 on the island of St Thomas – now part of the US Virgin Islands, but then part of the Danish West Indies – Rachel Pomié Petit Pizzarro gave birth to her seventh child, a baby who “had

April 25, 2017

Book Review: The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka

The Lion and the Jewel The Lion and the Jewel is a play that moves from act 1 (Morning) to the last act (Night). Act 1 starts by introducing us to Sidi and Lakunle. Sidi and Lakunle have an

April 20, 2017

Review – The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

Nnu Ego, (pronounced New Ego) the protagonist of the novel is a symbol of all the joys, woes, despair and ultimately disappointments of universal motherhood. Emecheta spares no effort in portraying her as a woman whose sacrificial love and

April 4, 2017

Book Review of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is a beautiful novel - as an extended metaphor for African despoliation, life and politics it works wonderfully. Beautiful is, perhaps, a strange word to describe this essentially melancholic novel but whilst Things Fall

April 3, 2017

BOOK REVIEW: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

I don’t read very many plays. And yet, when it came to choosing one for the Back to the Classics Challenge, I was excited. I know there are a lot of great plays out there that I may never

March 24, 2017

Tips For Writing Book Reviews

Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for

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