Nightbloom, by Peace Adzo Medie

Around the world challenge / MyReadingChallenge54: Ghana Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie follows inseparable cousins − or rather, cousins that live a continent apart and have completely different lives, and who don’t talk to each other, but who were inseparable as kids. Heartbreaking and fantastic.

These letters end in tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere

These letters end in tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere, follows a Catholic lesbian trying to find her lost love. The book is in the format of letters sent to Fatima, her atheist lover from a Muslim family. She tells of her search and of her own life with a gay best friend in a country…

Depart, depart! by Sim Kern

Depart, depart! by Sim Kern is a short novella of a natural disaster. Our narrator, a trans guy who is on hormones and pre-surgery, ends up in a public shelter with no privacy and where nobody seems to get any privacy. Also, the ghost of his grandfather, who narrowly escaped Nazi camps, keeps saving his…

My goals for 2025

I don’t really do goals. Or rather, I make a giant list of more or less important and ambitious goals in December, try things out, and re-prioritize somewhere around my birthday (end of March) for what will be the closest thing there is to an actual yearly goals list. For 2024, I had 8 goals.…