Summie's write

One day, I will write a piece and Chimamanda will read and she will love it.📌

@nitinauthor Amen

@RuthSummie Oh, you got a long list there, but hey, they're really nice things. Hope you get all things in your life very soon.

All I want in life is… 1. Books 2. Books 3. Comfy chair to read books 4. Books 5. Money for books 6. Library full of books 7. Bookmarks 8. Books 9. A man who reads books 10. Stacks of books 11. Time to read books 12. Shelves for books 13. Books 14. Tea to drink while I read books 15. Books

@ventusbooks I currently re-reading Night of the creaking bed by Toni Kan

@RuthSummie Great. What books are you currently reading?

I will forever be a girl who loves books, libraries, bookstores, and coffee shops, and the comfort and escapism they bring.

Sit in a bookshop with no intention of buying anything. Just walk the shelves slowly. Read the back covers. Open to the first page of books you've never heard of. Let yourself be surprised by a title, a cover, a single sentence that stops you.

To understand the world, read. To understand yourself, write.

There is a particular kind of loneliness that nobody talks about. It's not the loneliness of being alone. It's the loneliness of being surrounded by people who seem to be moving forward while you're standing in the same place you were a year ago. Watching friends get the job. the apartment. the relationship. the life that looks assembled and intentional. And you're happy for them. genuinely, deeply happy. But you go home and sit in the quiet, lonely room and feel something you don't have a clean word for. Not jealousy exactly. more like fear. What if it never happens for me?

I think we've made creativity too glamorous. We talk about it like it's all late nights and sudden inspiration and beautiful chaos. But most of the time it looks like this: sitting in an ordinary chair in an ordinary room, doing the quiet, unglamorous work of trying to make something out of nothing. Deleting more than you keep. doubting more than you trust. Showing up the next day and doing it again.

Aiwanose Odafen The wonder that you are 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Reading Night of the creaking bed by Toni Kan

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is just an incredible writer. Gripping from page 1!

I think everyone has a book inside them. Everyone has lived something unrepeatable. A childhood only they remember. A loss only they felt from that exact angle. A love that looked ordinary from the outside and was enormous on the inside. The only question is whether you'll ever trust yourself enough to write it down.

People say they don't have time to read. And I understand. Life is full and exhausting. but I also think we've confused "no time" with "no stillness." Reading doesn't require hours. It requires the willingness to be quiet for a moment. To put the phone down. to let one story matter more than the scroll. Ten minutes a day. That's a book a month. That's twelve worlds a year. The time is there, we just have to decide what it's for.

I used to think reading was an escape. But the older I get, the more I think it's actually the opposite. Reading is how I come back to myself. How I find language for things I've been carrying around wordlessly for months. The world outside is noise. A good book doesn't take you away from your life. It helps you understand it.

People ask why I read so much. Honestly? Because the world moves fast and loud, and I need somewhere quiet to remember what actually matters. Books slow everything down. They make you sit with one thought long enough to really feel it.

I read to feel less alone. And every single time, it works.