MGENI

The Stranger's Narrative

Welcome to Mgeni, a blog run by a writer, music-obsessor, weirdo, ice-cream lover who lives in the imaginative.

Check out my about page as well as some posts below.

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Oct 12
3 min

September Reads

"Meh" reads this month. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa I wanted to love this book like the other two I read this month, but I couldn’t....

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Sep 4
2 min

August Reads

Two thought provoking reads this month. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett This may be the best book I’ve read this year. Nominated for...

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Aug 21
4 min

July Reads

African Americans in the building! I didn't purpose to solely read African American authors this month, but it just happened randomly...

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Jul 6
4 min

June Reads

One YA rom-com and two African lit titles. Frankly in Love by David Yoon I forget how much I adore YA romantic comedies, until I actually...

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Jun 3
3 min

May Reads

May was a slow reading month for me. But I got to read two good books. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler So I've heard so much...

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May 2
7 min

April Reads

I think this year is seeing me giving series a chance. April was an EXCELLENT reading month! Pretty much everything I read except for one...

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Mar 31
5 min

March Reads

Long live sci-fi! Apart from trying to make Marie Lu my favourite author (which did not happen), I completed one of my favourite series,...

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Mar 3
4 min

February Reads

February was a pretty slow reading month for me. That being said, I did manage to complete two more books than I did in January. All...

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Jan 31
2 min

January Read

To start off 2021 in reading, I actually didn't start with a new read. I am continuing two reads from last year, which are taking me some...

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Dec 6, 2020
55 min

reads through 2020 (updated!)

**NEW READS POSTED AT THE BOTTOM** I’m challenging myself this year to read as many books as I can. At first my goal was to read 10...

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Dec 4, 2020
2 min

My Best Read of 2019

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova THE GOOD This is a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long while based on my favourite youtuber’s...

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Dec 4, 2020
2 min

Books Again!

During September and October 2019 I got a chance to read the entire trilogy of Crazy Rich Asians. I saw the movie in 2018 and absolutely...

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Dec 4, 2020
4 min

More Books

Finally getting to review the 3 books I finished in the first half of 2019. I wasn’t in love with these, but I still found them goodreads...

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Dec 3, 2020
6 min

Let’s Talk Books

Books - A simple solution to my listlessness throughout the year 2018. Reading is something I a lot of times see as agonizing, that is...

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September Reads

August Reads

July Reads

June Reads

May Reads

April Reads

March Reads

February Reads

January Read

reads through 2020 (updated!)

My Best Read of 2019

Books Again!

More Books

Let’s Talk Books

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