All The Light We Cannot See [By Anthony Doerr] - Book Review

Review:

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

This is not the type of book everyone will find interesting. It'll take a deep reader to go through everything. Shallow readers will probably dump it after the first five chapters. Doerr didn't make this easy by his complicated form of narration that only ended up making the book unnecessarily long and a bit uncanny , although it didn't terribly detract from the story. I found the mystery gem part rather baseless and confusing.

The Gift of Goodbye

By Ebi Ashidi

Saying goodbye might be painful - and in most cases it is, but it can also be the best Gift you give to yourself.

Being in a relationship that isn’t fruitful, and only painful, or in a relationship that brings more pain than joy, such relationships have to be let go.

STEP 1: EVALUATE

Before you can say goodbye, you need to be able to tell what relationships deserve your gift. We all have relationships. I mean, we were created for relationships.

My Love Story

By Patsy

He was my childhood friend. I can't remember how exactly we met, but he was always around. They always talked about him and pushed me towards him and made sure he followed me everywhere. It caught on. I kinda built my life around him. I knew what he liked and disliked, and we talked every morning and night before I went to bed. He was mummy's ideal man for me.

But I grew up.

Engligbo

Ha. Igbo Kwenu!!

"ENGLIGBO"

I'm not sure how many of you dear readers are familiar with this popular bridged term. I first heard it  in secondary school from a teacher, reprimanding my "generation" for watering down the purity of the igbo language with blobs of English words bubbling around between our igbo sentences.

"A nyerem ya yesterday"

Things to Avoid doing in the New Year: The Top Ten Lies People Tell

This is a compilation of the top ten lies people tell, collated from various sources and after multiple processes of investigation and research. (If you check carefully enough, you'll see that that's a lie too :P. I just collected them based on personal views and opinions, no research done.....or was there? )

This article however is actually an original typed piece. Please don't copy this :|. Just refer it :D Have fun though....


1. I Don't Lie
I'm sure you've said this one once or twice in your life, you may even be among the few of us that say it a LOT even, but seriously though? "No more paradoxicals" is the way to go for his new year.




2. I'll Be Done In..... Minutes

So many people say this that it's become ridiculously overplayed and overused. Anyone saying this knows it's a lie, and anyone hearing it ALSO knows that it's a lie. Funny thing? It's almost always never meant to be a lie. We just usually tend to either overestimate our abilities or underestimate the circumstanced delaying us. I's not so much of a lie - than it is an "erroneous statement".


3. I'm Fine

People say this one a lot. To avoid complicating  a discussion, or to avoid starting one with someone you're not interested in talking to at that moment, or other reasons here and there that seemingly justify the lie in their minds, even though it's subconsciously let out, but really - It's not justifiable, only excusable. There's a difference.