Francis imbuga autobiography of malcolm
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‘African Countries Need to Speak With One Voice’ Tabitha Mwangi’s First Draft
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
There were always many books in my house as inom was growing up because my mother would buy books and radio cassettes each month, a trait that inom seem to have picked up with the undantag being that the internet has replaced radio cassettes. Also, being a Presbyterian Reverend’s daughter my house was full of books on theology which my dad often brought home. As such, I often read Bible commentaries and books on Church History, although there were a few classics.
Some of the most memorable titles were Thomas Moore’s Utopia, Maria Von Trapp’s When the King was a Carpenter, Stephen Mansfield’s Men of Fire, C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity, Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, Francis D. Imbuga’s Betrayal in the City, and Carolyn Custis James’ Lost Women of the Bible. And of course, inom was one of the
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a library index / end credits of a movie
i only started collecting a library, because, would you believe it, my local library was a pauper in rags and tatters; apologies for omitting necessary diacritic marks, the whiskey was ******* on icecubes to a shrivel.*
ernest hemingway, e.m. forster, mary shelley,
aesop, r. l. stevenson, jean-paul sartre,
jack kerouac, sylvia plath, evelyn waugh,
chekhov, cortazar, freud, virginia woolf,
philip k. ****, dostoyevsky, aleksandr solzhenitsyn,
oscar wilde, malcolm x, kafka, nabokov,
bukowski, sacher-masoch, thomas a kempis,
yevgeny zamyatin, alexandre dumas,
will self, j. r. r. tolkien, richard b. bentall,
james joyce, william burroughs, truman capote,
herman hesse, thomas mann, j. d. salinger,
nikos kazantzakis, george orwell,
philip roth, joseph roth, bulgakov, huxley,
marquis de sade, john milton, samuel beckett,
huysmans, michel de montaigne, walter benjamin,
sienkiewicz, rilke, lipton, harold norse,
alfred jarry, miguel de cervantes, von
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Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of…