Roving

Hi guys, I have news! Starting next Wednesday, I'll be reviewing a book everyday for 100 days! I'd love to have diverse books, but due to the limit of my library, I will be focusing on Nigerian Books. Series is called Roving Through Books, I can't wait to share it. ❤️❤️❤️

i can’t stop crying it’s not even funny

Day 22.

Book 24: Some books leave you awed long after you close the pages. This is one of them. I'll be making a proper review in the #RovingThroughBooks series.

Book 23: This was splendid.

Books I've Read in 2026 📚📚📚

@roving_thinker This is a powerful poem

Also, the first chapter of my novel about Jehovah's Witnesses will be published soon by a literary magazine. It is such a peculiar religion and really if you were not a part of it, it is difficult for anyone to properly write about it. Every single piece of writing I have read by someone who was never a Jehovah's Witness just doesn't work. I can tell after the first few paragraphs if a person was ever inside or even how much time they spent in it. There is also a huge difference between those who left in their teenage years and those who were inside as adults. Like with any cult-like institution, you have to have experienced it to know it. The chapter will be out in the next few weeks and I hope I can reach a deal to sell the novel soon. Only reason I have refused to sell the novel is because I have not been offered a proper advance. So yeah, when that happens, the novel will come.

For #WorldPoetryDay I want to celebrate a living poet, George Bilgere, whose daily Poetry Town newsletter has become a must-read every morning. This is one of his own poems and moved me to tears when I read it this past Valentine's Day. I immediately read it aloud to my wife.

"Was it really my fault?" asked the Short Skirt. "No, it happened with me too," replied the Burka. The diaper in the corner couldn't even speak. -Darshan Mondkar

This will always be my favourite poem of all time. The language was specifically sculpted to fit the grooves of my soul.

@NKaelid62097 Thank you 🥺❤️

@roving_thinker Well done, just finished watching it 👏

Welcome to Day 3 of #RovingThroughBooks Today, I reviewed In The Company of Men by Vèronique Tadjo. Click this link to watch the full review youtu.be/SRJNoajjlhk?si…

Apparently, have a lot to catch up on.

Day 2 of #RovingThroughBooks Behold the Dreamers showed me that dreams can be costly but broken dreams, even costlier. Find the link to the complete review on my bio

Thank you @NarrativeLscape ❤️

This is mine

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@roving_thinker The Lake Isle of Innisfree

No time for time Is the goal of a dance the dance itself? Or is the goal of a dance an excuse to give wings to the heart? And where should the heart fly? To watch you as you move, with my hand on your hip. Is the heart merely a camera capturing one perfect image? Is life just a collection of successful photographs? Are we taxidermists collecting frozen moments of time and living with the fantasy of holding them forever in an enchanted tomb? Why do we dance, after all? If not to gather treasures made of fragments of happiness? Are we not dancing like bees gathering the unalterable sweetness of life: honey? But what is honey if nobody will taste it again? Dance for the dance. Love for the love. Joy for the joy. No time for time. Shining sun on a frozen lake, be the echo of a ray. Faithful. Forget the question without an answer. Forget the why. Dance! Inebriated by living water, dance for one second, dance eternity.

@Adedotttttttt Congratulations 🥳🥳❤️

Hi Sameerah, we did it🥹. Progress might not seem linear but trust me it compounds❤️🫶🏾.

—Sharon Olds