Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
~ Leo Tolstoy
WWW Wednesday 24-Apr-2024
Good day, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Material World by Ed Conway – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta – ⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
Have you read these books? What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
Once the rain is over, an umbrella becomes a burden to everyone. That’s how loyalty ends when benefits stop.
~ Anonymous
WWW Wednesday 17-Apr-2024
Good day, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was you reading week?
Quote of the Week
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
WWW Wednesday 10-Apr-2024
Hello, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
WWW Wednesday 03-Apr-2024
Hello, April! Hello, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Pale-Faced Lie by David Crow – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
Dreams don’t work unless you do.
~ John C. Maxwell
WWW Wednesday 27-Mar-2024
Hi there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another week of WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert #1) by Moses Ose Utomi – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert #2) by Moses Ose Utomi – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
~ Alice Walker
WWW Wednesday 20-Mar-2024
Good day, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Silent Brother by Simon Van der Velde – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
Have you read any of these books? What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
~ Lionel Barrymore
WWW Wednesday 13-Mar-2024
Hi there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up.
~ Brené Brown
WWW Wednesday 06-Mar-2024
Hi there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to March’s first WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words. It has been another slow reading week for me because work is getting busier but I hope I can catch up with my reading this coming Ramadan where working time is reduced to just six hours a day. Woohoo!
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Medea by Eilish Quin – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
~ Rudyard Kipling
WWW Wednesday 28-Feb-2024
Hello there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Women by Kristin Hannah – ⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.
~ Leonard Sweet
WWW Wednesday 21-Feb-2024
Good day, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Chip War by Chris Miller – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Power of Trees by Peter Wohlleben – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
WWW Wednesday 14-Feb-2024
Hi there, Homo sapiens! Happy Valentine’s Day! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss — an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. — is sure to be noticed.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
WWW Wednesday 07-Feb-2024
Good day, Homo sapiens! It’s February! Welcome to the first WWW Wednesday post of the month hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
First They Killed My Father (Daughter of Cambodia #1) – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
You could die right now. Let this fact guide the rest of your life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
WWW Wednesday 31-Jan-2024
Hello there, Homo sapiens! It’s the end of the month and it’s the final WWW Wednesday post for January, of course hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Return by Hisham Matar – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week? Any new favorites?
Quote of the Week
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
My Top Reads of 2023
2023 has been an amazing year of reading and I managed to read 111 books. Here are the books that has given me all the feels, my top reads for 2023.
Have you read any of these books? Do they belong to your top reads as well? Feel free to share!
WWW Wednesday 24-Jan-2024
Hi there, Homo sapiens! I hope everyone’s doing well.
Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan – ⭐⭐⭐
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa – ⭐⭐⭐
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
~ William Wordsworth
WWW Wednesday 17-Jan-2023
Hello, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Killing Fields of Cambodia by Sokphal Din – ⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How’s your reading week shaping up?
Quote of the Week
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
WWW Wednesday 10-Jan-2024
Hello, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.
~ Neil Gaiman
WWW Wednesday 03-Jan-2024
Hi there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to my first WWW Wednesday post for 2024 hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words. I hope you all enjoyed the holidays and I’m wishing you all a wonderful new year ahead! Let’s get started, shall we?
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Little Liar by Mitch Albom – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week? Any reading goals for 2024? Happy reading!
Quote of the Week
Being okay if it happens and okay it it doesn’t is a very powerful place to be.
~ Kate Eckman
WWW Wednesday 27-Dec-2023
Good day, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this year’s final WWW Wednesday post hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words. It’s been another good year of reading for me and I hope for all of you, too! So here’s my last set of books for 2023…
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Spilled Milk by K.L. Randis – ⭐⭐⭐
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
Happy reading and see you in 2024, Homo sapiens! Happy new year!
Quote of the Week
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
WWW Wednesday 20-Dec-2023
Good day, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another WWW Wednesday post hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H – ⭐⭐⭐
We Crossed the Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman – ⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.
~ Aristotle
WWW Wednesday 13-Dec-2023
Good day, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another WWW Wednesday post hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Water by John Boyne – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
~ Rumi
WWW Wednesday 06-Dec-2023
Hello there, Homo sapiens! Hello, December! It’s the last month of the year! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday post hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer – ⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was you reading week?
Quote of the Week
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.
~ Ernest Hemingway
WWW Wednesday 29-Nov-2023
Hello there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday post hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
What are you reading?
Quote of the Week
You’ll never have to negotiate your way into a heart that wants you there.
~ Laila Zouaki
WWW Wednesday 22-Nov-2023
Hello there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another WWW Wednesday post hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7) by Martha Wells – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
How was your reading week?
Quote of the Week
Make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
~ Hippocrates
WWW Wednesday 15-Nov-2023
Hello there, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday post hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
All you have to do is answer the following questions:
What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently Finished
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy #1) by Alka Joshi – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Truth About Grace (Pecan Man #2) by Cassie Dandridge Selleck – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Currently Reading
Reading Next
Have you read any of these books? What do you think about it?
Quote of the Week
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
~Confucius