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  • Review: The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano

    Review: The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano

    For the first time on The Steady Read, the star rating above this opening paragraph is completely blank, and I feel that is only appropriate given the racial and historical importance of this late 1700s autobiography. That is also why this review will be a bit more brief and less critical than usual, because it…

  • Review: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Review: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Adichie is an author I have a great admiration for, yet I always take an incredible amount of time to get through each of her works. Her talent and slow narratives daunt and bore me at first, but I always come away wishing I had really engaged with the novel and digested it more consistently….

  • Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    An insight into the terrors of war and how we cope as people. Half of a Yellow Sun stands as a profound and significant work in addressing the Biafran War that divided Nigeria across the late 1960s. The novel follows three characters: Ugwu, a village boy turned servant; Olanna, the wife of Ugwu’s master; Richard,…