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breathing: Does this mean you agree or disagree with the thing around your neck option.

lol Breathing....

I agree with ur short story suggestion, something to keep us going while we get the books I listed before.

Open a thread for the stories or we cud use the main thread for the postings because this one is strictly for discussion. Thanks

breathing: Goodmorning. It's not every book one can post here, the authors wouldn't like that. Anyway, in this case, maybe we should start off with Chimamanda Adichie's 'The thing around your neck'. It's a collection of short stories, most or all of which are available online. I could post the stories here while we discuss them one after the other, I already found an interesting reading guide for it. With time we'd find other easily accessible books too. What do you think.

@D-deola: Hi, tnx for starting this too, really nice.

I know but like I said its not everyone w4 internet access to his/her lappie and for now m still using ma mobile, till further notice. Let's work with wat is available. Thank you by da way

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ortopazz: ishmael? Of all people

He is ayt

breathing: The national library in Nigeria? I don't think the libraries here are that good.

Anyway, it's not time to be harsh yet except you don't want anyone to participate, some of these books are pretty difficult to find especially since we don't borrow from national libraries. [s]Is second chance a book about a boy whose mother was a prostitute[/s]? I suggest you start with older/cheaper books that most people can find easily, maybe when this gets more interesting, the participants would be more motivated to go searching for scarce books, for now, maybe they don't know what to expect yet.

I think the suggested things fall apart and weep not child are good, though more recent books like Adichie's Purple Hibiscus would have been more fun to discuss. You could easily get a reader's group guide for these books off the internet and start. I'd try to find any book you chose sha but the easier to find, the better. And I'd try to bring more African literature junkies to the thread. Looking forward to this.

Where were u?

My internet access is limited, I can only be able to discuss books I have in hard copy. Second chance? No its not the one u might have stumbled upon.

*If there is anyone who can be able to find the book u mentioned online and paste it here, chapter by chapter I think our problems wud be solved.

Just like the Nairaland bookclub where books r readily available.

Thanks for stopping by.

ortopazz: u see I said it, chhhh....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...........aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...........ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt! I wil shout o!

she is not

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newacca: Good PM guyz

good evening

ortopazz: just wait till neo gets crippled!

NoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOoooooooooOoooooooooooooooOooooooooooooO

Not Neo

(M inlove)

We already have a book holding a ghananian crown; Comfort herself. Can we add it for next month

Actually they can be on da front line for next week

Damex333: [color=#009900] i frown in spanish at ur attitude toward olamide [/color]

hahahaha

I did nothing to the young man now

Splendblex: ohh pls dear,don't cry. I'm gonna talk to HBG to stop treatin ur guy like dat.No cry again biko8-)

I laugh in french

[quote author=Larry-Sun]Before weekend, I guess.[/quote]gr8 stuff

I will post the questions we r gonna kickstart with on friday

[quote author=Larry-Sun]Of all the hearts in the world, Olamide got Derek's...Oh, goodness! They should have transplanted on him a gorrilla's heart![/quote]does it function like a human heart?

[quote author=Larry-Sun]I can get Weeep Not Child from the bookstores.[/quote]cool, how soon?

Damex333: Ati treats ola lyk a piece of shit,cos he is bed ridden, derek is dead,ola gets a new heart. HBG says ola deserves everything,cos she loves ati, ola repent and became a pastor, wats next pls. And where is that gurl man, larry.

hahaha Damex u got me rolling on the floor, can u guess wats next?

[quote author=uj_sizzle]Get Breathing in here...that girl can read.

I don't know where to get African novels close to me and i think they cost way too much.[/quote]The best place is the national library

I don't know Breathing tho

Morning guys

I have done some research and so far I haven't seen anythin interesting, especially when we are an 'online' book club. I wonder if some people will actual keep up as I see people dragging their feet here. I chose a book which none of you could get provided its a Nigerian product!

Anyway there are mordern Nigerian books but some of us don't have access to e-books, I don't have internet access except on my phone.

This is the list of five books that we are gonna kickstart with, forgive me if m being harsh.

1. When rain clouds gather-Bessie Head

2.Maru - bessie Head

3. Cry the beloved country - Alan Paton

4.Comfort Herself- Geraldine Kaye

5. Weep not child- Ngugi wA thiong'o

All this book are non Nigerian but please let me know which of them you agree on. And we will discuss on sunday afternoon.

ortopazz: u see thatz the attitude 2wards ola! I'l pres charges!

*sleepwalks in, finds Ortopazz. Pours cold water on him and goes back to bed*

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Chirolechick: Seriously I dnt undstnd y ola is bein treated like ds, is it dt I didn't folo d story properly or wat? Wasn't she d one who went afta anoda boy n ws actin weird,infact she's d cause of dat accident cos if she didn't insist on ola drivin her home he wldnt hv had d accident, HBG I no undstnd again o
#team ola jare#

the most fatal expiriences in our lives are the turning point in our lives.

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ortopazz: come o! Splendb, u see what I said she doesnt have a thing 4 ola, (sobbing,...) why shu..uu..d ola b treatd with contempt 4rm that girl, I think nw she needs the heart transplant nt ola! Mtcheeew. As a phresh boy I xpect a hook up or new shawty, whia that moratana abi is that she name?

U want another shawty?.....

I love Ati/kat

Ola deserves wateva that was cuming to him

Ok then...hope I will know em

Splendblex: ask her abeg!

Naughty u

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Damex333: Oh,why must it be olamide, dont worry ola, i might give u a friend's own but not mine o. But ati don c im papa,wetin she go do now,2 of her ppl re there, and its derek's fault.

there was no car in sight wen Derek crossed the fourway robots...Olamide was high m sure

ortopazz: no no no that was an accidental discharge, it came out of an urgent and dire need to address the kritical state u put my dear olamide! Kola wil b arrangd whn i finali strike gold, thinkin of a name, ur switheart wnt arrest me online 4! **winks**

*sigh*

Ok I will wait