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Hi! My name is Lara Kareem, creator of this website. I’m a big literary lover, who also loves her heritage, hence the name Naija. I’m a Nigerian born and bred in Lagos… (read more)

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Book Review: A Sackful of Wishes by Azizah Idris M. 10th April 2019
Happy Birthday to Me 8th April 2019
My Anticipated Book Releases, April 2019. 3rd April 2019
Book Review: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 13th March 2019
My Anticipated Book Releases, March 2019. 3rd March 2019

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When Hadiza got married she wasn’t expecting much, but what she would have never imagined was the suffering her husband Abdurrazaq Zanna would put her through. 🌸 Sackful of Wishes by Azizah Idris M. paints a very vivid picture of all the wrong reasons to get married. The story narrates the reason why Hadiza chose to marry the impulsive AR, who right from the onset was shown to be unstable, he did all the things that raised red flags, yet she still had hope. Her family had hope and that hope would be what destroyed her. 🌸 The use of language and narration in this book was easy enough to read, and Hadiza’s situation was very saddening, everything about her situation made my blood boil, so yes the story is emotion invoking. 🌸 The pacing and transitioning of time in the story wasn’t as smooth as it should have been, a lot of instances where happenings should have been dedicated more time to and fleshed out, but I guess it’s because this book spans a number of years, and it’s the first book in a trilogy so it should be allowed. 🌸 Which brings me to the ending, the ending was so abrupt, it just ended. There wasn’t any build up to it, nothing that said this story is coming to an end now and I found it jarring, it tried to build up suspense for the next book, but it just didn’t hit the mark as well as it should have. 🌸 Am I looking forward to the next book? Yes, because I was enamoured with the story from start to finish and it only took me some hours to read it. I am very curious about what happens next in Hadiza’s journey. 🌸 If you’re interested, @pagebookstore is currently selling the book for N2000 all through the month of April. Read more books by Nigerians.

Shameless Promo ♥️ » Have you seen the latest collection of Handmade Ankara Notebooks from @littartbyai? » It’s called #FromLagosWithLove and features a lot more Notebook styles than before. It’s a definite must have for anyone who loves journaling. » Look at the beauty that is Idumota, the fabric is so loud and vibrant, matched with the special Gratitude journal 😍 » By the way if you’re coming for A Blind Date with a Book, one lucky person is gonna get a gratitude journal 💃🏾 » Please patronise @littartbyai✌🏾

My weekend #lituation with my tiny little helpers. This is how I’m getting ready for GOT, finally finishing the first book after like 2 and a half years after I started it 😁 » I abandoned the TV series around season 3/4 can’t remember, I wasn’t feeling it at all. So I decided to just go back to my roots and read the books, hence the purchase of the paperback box set🐉 » What are you reading or what are you up to this weekend?

From the moment I spied the cover of this book. I wanted it so bad, even though it may seem like I am an agbaya, because this book is for kids. I just wanted to bless my eyes because everything about this book is beautiful, the quality, the illustrations and even the story! ☄️ Kesandu and Tari and The Candyfloss Cloud, reminds me of all the different stories my friends and I exchanged in primary school, about what our parents had told us about the Clouds. How long long ago it was down and people used to eat it, but even though each story was different, it all had a similar ending. The greed of a human or humans, was always the cause for cloud leaving us behind ☹️. ☄️ So yes apart from it being beautiful, the story teaches awesome morals and good attributes for kids to know and have. ☄️ Gift this book to the little kids in your life’s, I have already started growing my own nonexistent kid(s) books collection ☺️ ☄️ This is a new kind of African kids story, which I’m all for! Fantasy & Adventure 😍 ☄️ Thank you to the publisher @winkledomfantasybooks & @kesanduandtari for gifting me this book ♥️

A book I was excited to own, and I’ve had it for awhile now and I still don’t think I would be reading it anytime soon🤦🏾‍♀️ 🥰 But congratulations to @slayinyourlane for being shortlisted for the British Book Awards for Non-Fiction, in the category Lifestyle Book of the Year! 🥰 What book were you excited to have and when you got it, somehow it’s now at the back of your TBR pile?

Special shoutout to Tor Publishing, who I’m thankful for! I got sent the beautiful books in the Binti series (hardcovers mind you), in exchange for my honest review. I was intrigued when I started this book, and from start to finish, it was a weird journey, which captivated me and held my attention, you really need to get your hands on the hardcover editions that was released last year, need one convincing reason to purchase it? The beautiful foreword in Binti is written by the one and only N.K. Jemisin. Binti is the first book of Nnedi, that I am reading and I am happy to say her writing style is easy to follow and it’s very inspiring. I liked the character Binti, I love how her zeal for knowledge and curiosity is displayed in this book, it’s a great introduction to knowing who Binti is as a character. The world building is great, and there’s a lot of things to learn and understand about the people, especially as this vibrant world that has been built, doesn’t only consist of humans but different species, from different planets or so it seems... Want to read the rest of thoughts on Binti? Visit my blog, the link is in my bio, in the mean time! Talk to me if you’ve read or plan on reading this book 😊

Late Post! Some weeks back @something__bookish hosted a giveaway and I won the goodies (and more, which can be found in my highlight titled books) in the picture above. These two books are part of the latest and popping titles in Nigeria right now. Between the two I’m definitely going to read Becoming Nigerian first because it’s shorter and I have so many books waiting for me to read and review. It’s March and April will soon come, but I’m still recovering from my one week of fun shenanigans last December. I’m always exhausted 😩 and I can’t wait to get my drive back in full force. How about you? How’s your year been like so far? Your reading game? My reading game left me in February but it’s back now! I’ve read three books already 😊 I’m hosting an event on the 20th of April please don’t let it flop and register! Details in the previous post.

“...times as human beings we’re very insecure, so we just need to learn to love ourselves” — @showdemcamp x @ladydonli (I hope I got it right) » Who’s with me and only reading novels by women this month? A lot of people are celebrating March as the International Women’s Month, with March 8th being the official day. Who are your Literary Queens? » What’s my lituation like this month? » I just got my reading groove back and I can’t wait to dive into whatever books that my wandering eyes wants, but first I’m finally going to dig into this book She Called Me Woman which is published by @cassavarepublicpress. I bought a copy of it immediately it got released last year and ever since it has been on my shelf, judging me for not reading and loving it. » Until my next story ♥️

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