Category: Book Reviews
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When Raymond served cassoulet, all his guests made audible sighs of contentment. It was clear to Gifty that everyone loved the pork, duck, mutton and oil. (Gyasi, p. 71) Related post This is the main review post with many other links about Transcendent Kingdom – https://booksreviewsandmore.com/why-did-gifty-give-her-family-members-nicknames/
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“If you are living a godly life, a moral life, then everything you do can be a prayer,” my mother said.”Instead of trying to pray all day, live your life as prayer.” (Gyasi, p. 53) Some lines down, Gifty wrote that she “watched the slope of her back rise and fall, rise and fall.” She…
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These are some of my favorite quotes on prayer. They are found in the novel Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. “If you are living a godly life, a moral life, then everything you do can be a prayer, ” my mother said. “Instead of trying to pray all day, live your life as prayer.” (Gyasi,…
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What is the Turned Back Experiment? Yaa Gyasi wrote about it in her novel, Transcendent Kingdom. It refers to behavior of your listener. When you speak to another person, s/he turns their back to you. What is the meaning of this? Do you see the Turned Back Experiment with your family members and acquaintances? Here…
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Saturday, Apr 25, 2026 features the alphabet U. U for unicorn; a haiku poem We love unicorns mythical and magical – Who doesn’t love one. * U for umbrella: a 2nd haiku poetry for the letter U in this A to Z April Challenge post Umbrellas don’t last rain rusts their stalks immobile – end…
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Monday, April 20, 2026 Today’s letter is P. I don’t have a book author whose surname starts with letter P. P for Palms – a haiku on Palms Palms become ashes to anoint body and soul on Ash Wednesday. I have a book author whose first name starts with letter P. He is Paul Tremblay.…
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The author, Amina Cain, has her diary on reading fiction published and it is titled “A Horse At Night: On Writing”. She shares her opinion on many books. She notes that “Dorothea in George Eliot’s Middlemarch does her deepest and finest thinking when she is alone, not when she is with Casaubon (her first husband).”…
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How I found A Horse At Night I think Amina Cain herself is good at descriptive writing. I like Ms Cain’s short novel “Indelicacy“, because its descriptive writing was very rich, like a graphic novel. I could imagine the scenes. After I read Indelicacy, I became a fan of Cain. That was why I searched…
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Monday, April 13, 2026 For today’s #AtoZChallenge2026, the alphabet is K. I’m using the help of Stephen King’s book, The Shining, for this entry. Danny Torrance said that Mr Dick Hallorann also had the Shine. He knew secrets, and had prior knowledge before the events happened. Both of them could predict what people were thinking…