The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

  Book: Tiny Sunbirds Far Away  Author: Christie Watson  Pages: 436  How Long it Took Me To Read: 2 days (I could not put it down)  Publisher: Quercus  Plot Summary:   Set in the Niger Delta,  Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away  is the witty and beautifully written story of one family’s attempt to survive a new life they could never have imagined, struggling to find a deeper sense of identity along the way. When their mother catches their father with another woman, twelve year-old Blessing and her fourteen-year-old brother, Ezikiel, are forced to leave their comfortable home in Lagos for a village in the Niger Delta, to live with their mother's family. Without running water or electricity, Warri is at first a nightmare for Blessing. Her mother is gone all day and works suspiciously late into the night to pay the children's school fees. Her brother, once a promising student, seems to be falling increasingly under the influence of the local group of ...

 Hello Loves!  Time for a book haul.  :)  I love book buying.  And this is a little of a less guilty version of book buying because I got all used books and got them at great prices from Book Chor.   Yay!  :)  I ordered these books the day my new laptop arrived. I was seeing how browsing felt on my new laptop and lo and behold I had 10 books in my cart and was celebrating a new gadget with a spot of books. Pretty much how I celebrate things in my corner of the world.  I have picked such a wonderful bunch of books and all of them arrived in such great condition. Most of them look brand new and the rest are ever so slightly gently used.  Perfect!  Let's just jump into it shall we?  A stack of loveliness.  I think I'll read most of these books in the new year..apart from maybe the Christmas book. Let's see.  This book sounded so good and it's won a bunch of awards and I had never heard of it in my life. I like, really li...