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7/6/2018 0 Comments

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

How I Found:  It's been a long time since I've been able to do any world-travel, but what I have done impressed upon me the importance of perspective.  So, in a time when it seems the world has gone mad with pressing one's own perspective on another, I was looking for a book that reiterated the dangers of such and took me to another place and time.  This is precisely what I found in Things Fall Apart, an apt title for the book and the moments in which we are living. Nigerian author Chinua Achebe tells the story of the Igbo tribe through Okonkwo. In this way, the readers' perspective is his perspective and although he spends the better part of Part I atoning for his father's laziness, the reader comes to see much of the wisdom of the culture of the Igbo as in, "There is no story that is not true . . . The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
Why You Might Read:  If you've ever read In the Heart of Darkness, this is the opposite of that.  This  brings forth the perspective of the people who suffered Imperialism and Colonization rather than the perspective of the Imperialist and Colonizer.  It is a story full of folktales of a part of Africa that reflect the harsh yet strikingly beautiful surroundings in which they were born, but it is also the sad story of what xenophobia can do to both those from within and those from without the nation.  If we can all but remember the Umuofia saying "That as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him," we reap what we sow, we might better live and let live than trying to press one perspective upon another.  
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7/4/2018 0 Comments

Longbourn by Jo Baker

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Read by Emma Fielding on Audible
How I Found:  I've loved The Bennet's since I read Pride and Prejudice in high school, so the opportunity to read from the perspective of their servants was too tempting despite my hesitation that some of my favorite characters, Elizabeth, Mr. Bennet, might be tainted by the stitches of another seamstress.  However, I can assure, they are better for the re-imagining and really, the girls are only slightly altered.  The beginning plays on the original most, but as the story goes on for Sarah, James, Polly, and The Hills, these, "Threads that drift alone will sometimes twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other's ambit they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion, can in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, raveling itself up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning."
Why You Might Read:  If you too are a returning Austenite, or even like the movie Pride and Prejudice enough to rewatch it before your read, you will be enraptured with this unique perspective of the book and the times. This behind-the-scenes look at what life would have been for everyone else adds to the timelessness, the characters, and the settings that helped to change our world to one filled with the choice to follow our own hearts' endeavors wherever they might lead us. 
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