So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed By Jon Ronson

Genre: Non-Fiction, Psychology Publication Date:2016 Social media plays a pivotal role in providing a platform for the voiceless. This is evident with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and other social justice issues that have long been disregarded. However, it also comes with a dark side that we all know about and may have even aided and abetted …

Serve the People: Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu

Publication Date: 2009 Genre: Food Memoir, Travel Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, my family enjoyed having Sunday dinners at Dragon's Pearl, a Chinese restaurant in Nairobi's CBD. In its heyday, the place would be packed at lunchtime as it was quite conveniently located and pocket friendly for  business lunch. Sadly, the place …

We Are The Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer

In We Are The Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer reflects on the climate crisis from a deeply personal level. The book's title implies that collective individual actions on a socio-political level that will translate in reducing the impact of climate change. For him, it means better choices from the food we eat at breakfast and which …

Mid-year Reading Goals Check-in

In 2020 I am choosing to practise contentment. It is safe to say that the COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in helping me hunker down and use a lot of the things that I had put off for the future including reading books.  Since we are at the half-year mark, I thought, let's see …

The Kitchen without Borders by Eat Offbeat Chefs

  Title: The Kitchen without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefs Authors: The Eat Offbeat Chefs Publication Date:  June 2020 Genre: Cookbook, Non-Fiction I love looking at cookbooks but I hardly use them even the few that I have purchased when I psyched myself to continue with my "glow-up"  journey. I tend …