The Women Of Biafra

The Women Of Biafra

By Onyeka Nwelue

Genre:-Historical Fiction

Pages:-360

Publisher:-Abibiman Publishing

Blurb:-"The Women of Biafra" is set in 1967 during the tragic genocide against the Biafrans by Nigerian soldiers.

 The novel follows the harrowing journey of Ngozika, a young lgbo woman who endures unspeakable trauma at the hands of a Fulani man. Her plight takes a turn when Sola Adenubi, a compassionate Yoruba soldier, helps her escape with her twins.

 "The Women of Biafra" sheds light on a significant chapter of Nigerian history and celebrating the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

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My Review:-The story is set in 1967. It's the time of the Nigerian Civil War and during the brutal Biafran genocide. We are with Ngozika, a young Igbo woman, as she takes us with her on her journey a better life. Ngozika must keep her daughter Udoka and son Emeka safe at any cost. Ngozika decides to take her children to where her mother and brother are, a village called Ogwuma. With the help from a Yoruba soldier she manages to take a bus. Not long before Ngozika has to go back to sort things out, but leaves her children with her mother and brother. But things don't turn out right, on her return back to Ogwuma she finds out her brother has been killed and her children are gone. Finding out her children are now in Umuahia, she must get there no matter how hard it's going to be or how long it takes her. This is an emotional story, of not just one woman but of many, showing how The Women of Biafra take control after the husbands are either fighting or dead

The Company She Keeps

The Company She Keeps

By James Woolf

Genre:-Psychological Thriller

Pages:-352

Publisher:-Bloodhound Books

Blurb:-A spine-tingling suspense thriller that asks: How many bad men can one woman have in her life?

 England. 1979. After a childhood trauma, Rebecca struggles to build healthy relationships. Her on-again-off-again partner is a married police officer trying to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, who has just claimed his tenth victim.

 Then Rebecca meets Larry, a charming American with a troubled past. And of course there's Mervyn, the creepy journalist she ended a brief relationship with, who will do anything to keep her in his life...

 With three very different men craving her attention, and a serial killer on the loose, Rebecca soon finds herself in a twisted game of cat and mouse. Can any of these men be trusted? And could one of them in fact be a cold-blooded killer?

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My Review:-This is my first book by Woolf, but it will not be my last. There's a serial killer out there, putting the fear into everyone, especially women, stopping them going out at night.

 Rebecca Ferguson is a successful brewery owner. Rebecca hasn't had an easy life when it comes to romance. She is trying to start over again but isn't finding it easy with the Yorkshire Ripper out there somewhere. Set in the 70s and 80s when mobile phones were not a thing, it's up to each person to trust their own feeling, but with Rebecca's past can she really do that and is it enough to keep her safe as well as finding that someone.

 we have great characters to go with a gripping storyline. It will have you guessing till the end

I Am Perfectly Flawsome

I Am Perfectly Flawsome

By:- Tom Collins and Michele Molitor

Genre:- Self help/Non-fiction

Pages:-

Publisher:-WME Books

Blurb:-Don't be a "Should-Head"!

 Stop listening to the voices telling you what you "should" be, or how well you "should" be doing-always harping that you're not good enough. Whether they originate inside your head or got planted there by well-meaning parents or less well-meaning social media, those voices are liars. They're harmful to your mental and physical well-being, and can lead to anxiety, depression, or worse, suicide.

 Instead, become a practicing Flawsomist!

In I Am Perfectly Flawsome you'll find real science and personal stories showing the perils of perfectionism. You'll explore ways to embrace imperfection rooted in Japanese philosophies and meet inspiring flawsome role models (both well-known figures and everyday people from the authors' own research).

 After reading. you'll want to make "I Am Perfectly Flawsome" your personal mantra.

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My Review:-I Am Perfectly Flawsome is set out in 10 chapters, each one having a 'Journal Prompts' along with wide margins to wrote notes as you go along. I love how it talks about acknowledging your flaws. Throughout the book there are anecdotes, scientific research and practical exercises. This is a book that could help so many people with mental health, especially with the number of younger people trying to cope with bullying and the stress of being in the 'in crowd'. I did like the 'Book Club Reader's Guide' at the back of the book, it's something you could do with friends and family.

 I have always told my children and grandchildren to be who they wany to be, not what others think they should be. We all have flaws, nobody is perfect no matter what they might think. Shine from both the inside as well as the outside.

Finally Find Freedom

Finally Find Freedom

By Philip Wride

Genre:-Non Fiction/Self-Help

Pages:-181

Publisher:-Philip Wride

Blurb:- Are You Trapped in Life's Chains?

 Do you feel like life is a never-ending struggle, where every step forward is met with resistance and frustration?

 Do you have a burning desire for more freedom in your personal and professional life?

"Finally Find Freedom" is your beacon of hope, illuminating the invisible chains that bind you and providing a roadmap for breaking free.

 In this transformative book, author and life coach, Philip Wride, explores the depths of human experience and unveils the 12 chains that hold countless individuals back from realizing their vision, goals and dreams. Through personal stories, practical exercises, and empowering insights, Philip offers a powerful process, for liberating yourself from these constraints, empowering you to embrace a life of boundless freedom, success, and happiness.

 You'll learn to embrace your true self, construct a vision that aligns with your deepest desires, and take decisive action to find the freedom you seek.

 Uncover your chains, embrace your freedom, and take the first step toward a life of limitless possibilities. Are you ready to break free

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My Review:-Take control of your life with the help of Philip Wride. In Activity #1 he asks you to create your TALE, which will help you to start to move forward. Philip shares the 12 chains of knowledge, speed, convenience, relationships, priorities, responsibilities, location, time, risk, fear, perception, and pressure. At the beginning Philip explains TALE-Time, Activities, Location, and Experience. . Each of the 12 chains provides you with explanations, as well as the whys and why nots, we all ask ourselves. Throughout the book Philip has added activities to help you to move forward.  I did like how Philip spoke about his own personal struggles and how he moved forward.

The Flannigan Girls

The Flannigan Girls

By Wendy Haller

Genre:-Contemporary

Pages:-

Publisher:-

Blurb:-The Flannigan Girls stick together...

 Claire, Elena, and Becca were not only sisters but the best of friends growing up, relying on each other for love and affection amidst a home lacking in love. As they grew older things shifted, life took them in separate directions. When Claire's husband is offered a new position in his company, leaving him gone more than at home, Claire's insecurities of abandonment rise, threatening to unravel the tight-knit family she's worked so hard to maintain.

Determined to uphold her promise of never letting her children feel unloved, Claire confronts her own feelings of neglect and must learn to reconnect with her sisters. Through Claire's story, the sisters must rediscover the enduring strength of their bond.

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My Review:-Who are the 'Flannigan Girls'...Claire, Elena, and Becca, aren't only sisters, they have always been best friends growing up. When each of then go different ways in life, the bond that has always kept them so close is tested.  We follow the baby of the sisters, Claire as she struggles with life as her husband Patrick takes a new job and isn't always home. She feels that she needs to make sure her kids get plenty of love, but she's not feeling the same about herself. Claire reaches out to her sisters, for that bond that was always there between them.

 The story shows how families change over time even when we don't see it happening. A heart-warming story of three sisters.

How Not To Be A Super Model

How Not To Be A Super Model

By Ruth Crilly

Genre:-Biography/humour

Pages:-384

Publisher:-Blink Publishing (Bonnier Books)

Blurb:-Join Ruth Crilly in this comic memoir as she teeters through the noughties and lifts the lid on her days as an international fashion model. Told with unparalleled wit and remarkable detail, this is a book for anyone who dreams big and aims high but never quite reaches their goal. At twenty years old, five feet eight and with boobs that were 'inconveniently fulsome', Ruth was not quite young enough, tall enough or wilf-like enough to ever hope for a meteoric rise to supermodel status. And yet her sheer optimism and questionable grasp on reality led her to abandon her law degree and begin a career with one of the biggest agencies in the world.

 Follow Ruth through a rip-roaring, hilarious decade of not0quite-making-it as a supermodel. Fuelled by little more than cigarettes and the stress of her spiralling dept she criss-crosses the world in pursuit of fame and fortune. But how far is she willing to go to for this wildly unrealistic dream?

 Bridget Jones meets the Devil Wears Prada, How Not to be a Supermodel is a time capsule of a book that dives into one of the world's most fascinating industries. Offering a glimpse into both the high glamour and juddering reality of s by-gone era, this comic memoir tackles the darkest of subjects with the very lightest touch and injects humour and a heart-warming honesty into a story that could have so easily ended a different way

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My Review:-Ruth Crilly had started a law degree, until she sticks a photo of herself in a box in Birmingham and is scouted by one of the top agencies in the world. Ruth takes us on her journey on how modelling work was like in the noughties, to what it is now. She explains the good along with the bad sides of trying to becoming a model. Ruth knew it wasn't going to be easy, but this shows us just what it's like with traveling the world, magazines, clothes and outfits that she was expected to model. Ruth also shares the humour along the way. It is definitely is Bridget Jones meets the Devil Wears Prada.

All Boats Are Skinning

All Boats Are Skinning

By Hannah Pierce

Genre:-Non Fiction/Travel Writing/Humour

Pages:-368

Publisher:-Summersdale

Blurb:-"All Boats Are Sinking, Hannah, just at different rates."

 After a break-up, some hit the gym; some cut their hair; others have a one-night stand. In the aftermath of her break-up, Hannah bought a narrowboat. Newly single and plunged into life on the water, Hannah had to learn quickly how to grapple with exploding toilets, disappearing hulls, and the curious glances and questions from pedestrians on the towpath.

 But when career burn-out, a global pandemic and an ill-advised rebound relationship threatened to sink her, Hannah felt the need to escape. In a bid to leg go of the past and restore her sense of self-worth, she embarked on a narrowboat odyssey which took her from the tranquil yet dramatic waterways of West Yorkshire.

Suffering from an apparent magnetism to drama but buoyed by her brilliant friends, Hannah tells of the challenges of off-grid life as a single 30-something on the water. All this as she tries to balance the tension between owning her singledom and giving in to a deep desire to find love. Peppered with lists, recipes, maps, footnotes and diagrams, and spanning hundreds of miles of the British waterways, All Boats Are Sinking is an uplifting and often hilarious story of adventure and personal growth, and of a woman trying to keep her boat and life afloat.

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My Review:-After becoming single, Hannah knew she wasn't going to be able to afford the prices of somewhere to live in London, even with help from her parents. What she did next surprised everyone, Hannah decided to buy a narrowboat. But it's not as simple as buying the narrowboat and sailing away, Hannah soon finds out there is a lot more to it and a lot of work as well.

 Even though Hannah started on the water in London, she soon felt she needed to escape from everything. As she navigates the network of canals and locks along the English countryside, even through the Covid pandemic, Hannah puts her journey down on paper. Hannah's journey wasn't just a journey on water but also a story of personal growth and self discovery, especially at a time when we were all worried about what was going on in the world and around us. I found it an interesting and enjoyable read