Hi, I’m Cindy and I have impeccable taste in books and I’m here to give you some book recommendations. I’m not sure if you know, but I read and travel the world or at least that’s what I wanna do. And I also for the last five and a half years have been running a book club that meets online the last Tuesday of every month. We have people from all over the world. Sometimes we have like over 100 people joining book club. And I’m here to give you some book recommendations because as I said, I have exceptional taste in books. These are the books that we are reading for Bookasin’s Book Club for 2024. And I highly recommend every single book from this stack. Here’s why you should read them. Taking it off strong. We are headed to Jamaica with how to say Babylon by Sapphic Sinclair. It is a memoir about her time growing up in a Rastafarian household, what that was like. She had a very strict father and her coming to terms with like how she grew up. Highly recommend this one. As you can see, I love it. Also, I love all of these books. We’re headed to Nigeria with The Secret Life of Baba Segi’s Wife by Lola Sheen. I absolutely loved this one. Um, basically this man have about four wives and when he finds out their secrets, everything just comes to a head. It’s a short book, but it packs A huge punch. Also, it’s pretty hilarious. Drinking from Graveyard Wells. This was written by a Zimbabwean, Zimbabwean author and I absolutely love this one. It’s a collection of short stories and one of the collection I learnt that there was this man that went to Zimbabwe and he basically saw that they were like communal rights and that’s how he got the idea for lift. Do you even mean that? I’m now reading this in a book. Please read this one. There is dominoes by Phoebe Mcintosh. And basically it’s about this black British woman, um, that found, that finds out that her fiance, who she has the same last name as, that his great, great, great, great, great grandpa may have owned enslaved people in Jamaica, the same place that she and her family grew up in. So a lot needs to be considered. I just love talking about this one. This is an exceptional book club pick. There is a trace of sun by Pam Williams. She is from Grenada and she basically writes about this family that leaves Grenada to go to the UK and what happens when the mother leaves a son behind and then he comes to the U. K. And all the ramifications of that. If you love book about immigration, highly recommend this one. The House of Plain Truth. This one is written by Donna Haymonds and it’s actually set in Jamaica and Cuba. We find out about this family that basically Left Jamaica to go to Cuba and they left some of the family behind and what happens when the father dies and task his daughter with finding the rest of the family? Relative love this one. I do not come to you by chance one of my favourite, favourite African books. Um, it’s about the 4 1 9 scam. Basically, this man grew up thinking that yo, all you have to do is have an education and you will be set. Turns out that even with having an education, he’s still broke. He’s still trying to like find a job and just things are horrible. His Uncle Cash daddy’s like come and work for me when things got hard and we follow his life progression. This one is hilarious. It is heartwarming and truly one of my favorite reads for 2024. Um, the Mother Act by Heidi Rama. Um, this is about a mother who has a child and she absolutely regrets having children. Like she had the child and she instantly regrets it. And it follows her life and the child’s life as they kind of like come ahead and find out, yo, why is my mom behaving like this? And she also is like, this is why I left you behind because I truly do not like children. But also it’s more layered than that. It’s a great mother daughter story. And if you’re one of those persons who is child free and all you hear people talking About is like, it’s so great. Being a mom. Reading this book would kind of like validate you because this mother literally is like, the worst thing she did was have a child. And for our September read, which is coming up, it is The Last Love Song of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud. It is a Trinidadian, she’s a Trinidadian author. And the book is set in Trinidad. It follows the lovers of, um, Boysie Singh, who was a notorious murderer and thief. And basically we find out about these women who loved him, why they loved him and how their life was impacted by him. Y’all, I am great at recommending books. All of these books, slaps. And if you’re looking for your next read, I highly recommend you read one of these and come and join my book club. I love having new members. We meet the last Tuesdays of every month. This is what we’ll be reading for September. So come and read with me. Bye.