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

@elizaego This is a good read!!

I’m enjoying it so much!!!

@RuthSummie A woman who reads will prompt a man to look up from the book he's reading. A woman who reads would smile when he says Let's go out shopping for book bargains. A woman who reads would wait when she entices him upstairs but he just needs to finish a chapter first.

Who are the 5 writers that made you? 1. Michael Imossan 2. Chiwenite Onyekwelu 3. Jai Hamid Bashir 4. Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi 5. Kaveh Akbar Let's have yours!

A woman who reads is harder to fool. A woman who reads knows the difference between a man who loves her and a man who loves the idea of her. A woman who reads has already lived a thousand lives before breakfast. A woman who reads will outlast every person who underestimated her quietly. A woman who reads knows that the right words at the right time can save a life. Hers included. A woman who reads is never truly alone. She has too many characters who understand her. A woman who reads will choose a slow Sunday with a good book over a loud room with empty people. A woman who reads knows her own mind. That makes her difficult to control. A woman who reads and grieves fictional characters like real ones. Because inside the story, they were. A woman who reads is building something inside herself that no one can take away. A woman who reads will always have somewhere to go, even when she has nowhere to go. A woman who reads is not waiting to be written into someone else's story. She is too busy writing her own. A woman who reads knows when a story is worth her time and when a person isn't. She has sat with fictional heartbreak long enough to recognize the real kind before it fully arrives. Women who read are difficult to keep small. A woman who reads is harder to fool. A woman who reads knows herself better than most. Women who read are rarely impressed by people who don't think deeply. A woman who reads has empathy that has been deliberately trained. Women who read are the most interesting people in any room. She is quiet in rooms but loud on the page underlining, arguing, falling apart and rebuilding herself between chapters. A woman who reads does not need to be the most impressive person present.

@elizaego @firecondomsng I've missed youuu!! Haven't seen you on my timeline lately

Come with me to shop my monthly self-care essentials on a strict 50k budget. Let’s see if I can stay on budget… and yes, the last item is essential too 🤭

@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.