Throw Back Novels

There’s something about reading books that has an orgasmic effect on me. Orgasmic=lack of a better word after reading Female Perspectives views on everything here, I guess my mind lives in the gutters nowadays…thank you KTalk.

Anyway, there’s this book I read as a young girl. Still haunts me. The Blooding was the books title. The author is Joseph Wambaugh.

Now this is one book that gives you all the chills. Its a book that shows how the use of DNA helped solve murder. They say, “changed the world of forensic science”.

And now somehow this book shaped my character. :frowning:

Recommend a book…

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There is always a price tag, by the undisputed king, James Hardley Chase, RIP

Am still searching for it to do a,recap.
Anyone?

@Algernon. na @gashwin kuna customer.

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There’s one I read like 3 times, when I was 12, by James Hadley Chase…Consider Yourself Dead. Would love to repeat it…

Those with links jameni saidieni

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The concubine and moses series though not Novels but forever etched in my soul…

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Elechi Amadi’s the Concubine. In my soul too :slight_smile: even once toyed with the idea of naming myself Ihuoma

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at one stage i almost knew this book word for word.

The best Hekaya i have ever read still remains to be … “My Life of Crime” By John Kiriamiti

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@trish keep going…i recommend all of Wilbur Smith…

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Watu walishika novel last kwa lit 1984 tafasary mnakaa kando kidogo. We all read those books in high.

…and that was not reading but schoolwork…ungelinikuta niking’angana na Julius Caesar…!

I loved particularly the way Elechi showed how an African man can be so into a woman in an innocent, boyish way and still manage to be husband. Had a sad ending though. So after reading My Life in Crime and innocently asking my dad his views, alijibu, " ni kujichocha tu". Nikaboeka

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Hizo za akina concubine were course books. My point.

the innocence of kids!..and their fragile hearts…

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Its amazing how the writer made you a fan of all the characters, i almost felt like i lived in that village.
I was foolish and innocent enough to believe every word in John Kiriamiti`s book but when you grow abit older you just know ameongeza chumvi excess…

Niko na vitabu mingi though in .epub .mobi n pdf formats. I usually read like one per week… Once stumbled on all Chinua Achebe’s books on Kickass had to take a break ti go through them all

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I actually have one of his, Assegai…never finished reading…:frowning: but now will. Kinda feared it would be some crap about his views about Africa…

tafasali tumia mimi…as much as I love print, have come to realise those tu small library joints in tao hawana African books

Oh not really. I didnt do it as a course book(still in my 20s :)). I read it coz my mum used to talk about it

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Speaking of African book, who knows where i can get Keep my words? A luo anthology…
Inbox mw your email address nitakusambazia

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pale saint can’t remember the author’s name though