After completion of the book 📙, A Song for you. I just rolled my eyes like this🙄🙄. Then hissed like this, mtcheeeeeeeew😒😒😒.
Who does Robyn think we are sef? Small pickin dem??
But OMG!! I cannot deny the fact It was a good book😭😭😭. I had to refrain myself not to read it at a goal but to extend reading it.
I appreciate the fact that Robyn Crawford did not take anger, frustration and racial discrimination as an excuse to the domestic abuse her mother suffered in the hands of her father unlike Viola Davis who did in her book, Finding Me. I am angry at how Viola could ‘understand‘ her father. How she could be so understanding.. so forgiving of her abusive and unfaithful father whom I must add, changed when she became famous and he was weary with age. I still can’t understand how womxn tolerate and condone abuse and unfaithfulness in relationships with men.
Commuting to work one morning while reading A Song for You, I felt I was missing something. That I had left something behind at home.
It was my subconscious missing holding a book 📙. I’d give anything to turn A Song for you into a hardcopy😭.
Whitney Houston could afford to bore a $20,000 dollars loss on a condo which she bought because Robyn Crawford felt she needed her space away from Whitney and wanted to separate professional life from private life, then gift her a $100,000 to buy a house. God why don’t I have friends like that😭😭?
So lemme understand this, You are deeply in love with somebody. You both kiss, have sex and do drugs for some time. One morning, she comes over with a bible saying, you guys have to stop. Because being with a same gender is a sin. she wants to hsve kids and a normal relationship. And you both relationship is a sin. However, god understands your love for each other. You both write down your love for each other at the back of the bible.
Then from then, you guy never had sex again? Even when you are both high and alone, sharing apartments together and sleeping on each other’s arms. Tarrh get out! Who does Robyn Crawford think we are? Children??
I understand what she is trying to do, seriously I do, but it is better she didn’t say anything at all, than write this.
I choose to read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee instead of my DREAM BOOK, A Song for you by Robyn crawford.
I want to read Robyn’s Memoir so bad…🤧. But it looks like the most interesting thing in my life right now🤧🤧🤧. I want to preserve it, save it, own it, box it and importantly, love it with all my heart ♥. I will read 📖 it next 😔.
Before I start any review, I must state that;
Such persons as Atticus does not exist. This character is much too perfect. Even George isn’t this calm and collected and sweet and less angry 😡. My hubby George has been picking on me for a while, making me angry and getting angry at me. I am no longer on speaking terms with him. I am keeping malice 😾.
Mrs. Dubose; a fowl-mouthed woman who enjoys throwing insults, even after her death, Atticus had kind words to give. How can someone be so selfless and kind?
I’ve heard a great deal about this book, to Kill a Mockingbird. Reading 📖, Kathryn Stockett’s The Help Aibileen requested for To Kill a Mockingbird from Ms Skeeter. It was banned at Black libraries and illegal for Blacks to read 📖.
That aroused my interest to read 📖 it.
I faltered in the first chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird 🤦🏾♀️. On Mother Nature, I was uninterested as fuck.
Googling here and there for an idea on what the book was about to charge my interest. Then I encountered a ray of hope, Harper Lee was a womxn😅.
Towards the end of chapter one, I received another revelation, the narrator was a female 😅.
Harper Lee is also humorous in her writing ☺️. These were building steps.
I am glad, I and Mockingbird begun getting along just fine🤝🏾.
Miss Caroline telling the narrator (whose name we are not then sure of but guessed then was Jeane) to stop writing because it isn’t expected of first graders to write till they get to third grade is a semblance of our society towards the upbringing of a human. We teach our children obedience instead of curiosity. We forced children to conform, follow the crowd instead to form thoughts for themselves.
Miss Muadie through chastening of the footwashing Baptists made me realised, Religion is a strong shield for women hate game. This is a reason why I can never be religious. Even Janism and Wicca which I was told are the most Liberal and tolerant religion for womxn, during my research on Wiccan I discovered out of the three deities (two gods and a goddess), the male are the most dominant. How can a he be the supreme being of witchcraft?? Nonsense. I didn’t need to research about Jainism to know their figurehead was male.
In teens, when the sense of belonging overrules your individuality. You craving to belong somewhere, to be part of something bigger than you. The feeling of loneliness roars deep and you wish to belong. I had a cousin whom I followed along with his friends, we were all supposed to go somewhere. But he stopped, and asked I go back. This journey was for the ‘boys’. Some of the boys didn’t agree with his decision but I was a girl and his relative so… that incident still stuck by me.
I get excited by those who stand up for the right things regardless how hard it might be. Standing up for just against friends and foe, publicly declaring your stand to things. May I get to do what’s right even if it doesn’t favour me 🙏🏾.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand…
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving gender equality comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand… I draw analogy from racism to gender. People believe men are superior to womxn. People believe whites are superior to blacks.
If clergymen don’t preach misogyny, services won’t hold that day. Was Harper Lee a man, she won’t have pointed this out. Men are perfect in the eyes of men 🙂. That’s why I believe that male writers are good for and should be read by men.
I got to the part of the court case in To Kill a Mockingbird and honestly, I was not impressed 😏.
Tom Robinson doesn’t have one iota of sense in his head. Na coconut dey im head. How can you go in to help a white girl whom you have been acquainted with for over a year, ALONE inside a room? How can you remain comfortable after she had told you, she sent the children away to buy ice-cream and she saved money up for the reason? How can you NOT be alarmed after the door she claimed to be faulty was just fine?
This is the difference between being female and being male.
Rape, sexual abuse is wom101, you are taught from birth as a female.
As soon as a man calls you in, to his compound which suddenly is alone and he informs you, he sent everyone away, the singing song that goes into your head is… AWAY. You RUN!!!
Men do not suffer sexual abuse the way womxn do because men are mostly, 99.9% the abusers, the rapists. Even a day old and months old female babies aren’t spared by these people.
So I am not surprised Tom Robinson could relax around Mayella without reading the room.
My favourite character in the book is the narrator, Jean Louise (Scout). Unlike her father, Atticus whom Ewell could approach, spit on his face, threatened to kill him, curse him with vulgar names and try to engage him in a fight. Only for him to end it up “Too proud to fight, you nigger-lovin‘ bastard?” With “No, too old,” put his hands in his pockets and gaited away.
Scout fought. My favourite parts are where her brother threatened to spank her if she continued to trouble Aunt Alexandra, she immediately rushed him and they fought. Even after he punched her hard at the belly, she continued still fighting him until their father separated them.
And also, the scene she defiantly told her brother, Jem and Reverend Sykes “ _I most certainly do, I c’n understand anything you can._” when he pointed out that she doesn’t understand the case that was going on in court. She was only 8 years old.
Reminds me of my younger sister who is going to 8 by May and stopped attending meetings of Jehovah’s witness because she hates it.
I hate movies. Here’s the movie telling us a totally different story from what the book stated about the narrator’s first time meeting Mr Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley just like they desecrated Alice Walker’s masterpiece *The Colour purple* . Movies are for enjoyment, books are for reflection. I prefer books 📚. Anytime. I’d be watching the 1900s movie of to kill a Mockingbird though. Also that of the colour purple. Recent movies are too fake for my liking. To good books 🍸, may we always find them to read them.
One of the reviews in current book 📙, Falconer by John Cheever stated that 20-30 minutes into reading 📖, the reader would be overwhelmed. I’ve read for over an hour, and I am yet to find anything fascinating or captivating. The picture is taken at my stand where I sat, cross-legged and forcing myself to read 📖 the trash.
Agonising about Bertrand Russell’s words, “a child should, from the first, be allowed to see his parents. . . naked.” It repelled me to picturize my father’s penis☹️. Mediating on these strange words, I read 📖, it popped up again. It was one of the basis a judge used to annul his appointment as a lecturer at the University of New York.
The judge was burnt up as I was over the statement.
However, as the controversy ensued. Each side narrating their own side of the story. The storyline blossomed 🌸 and I begun to perceive what Bertrand meant.
In Education and the Good Life in which Russell had written “a child should, from the first, be allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters without their clothes whenever it so happens naturally. No fuss should be made either way; he should simply not know that people have feelings about nudity.”
I love books as this one which enable one conceive unconventional ideas. And like one of those who spoke in defense of Bertrand Russell, we get to know that,
*Black is White. Peace is War. Freedom is slavery.*
Instead of the customary thoughts which according to Bertrand in the book, brings no changes to the world. If you get to do things because your parents did them, so did their parents before them. How would there be a difference?
I lost friendships, restricted entry to certain places I once could access easily. Ditched off from free rides (which is actually a good thing as I had to slave or suffer for it), kicked out of places. Avoided by friends so as not to be seen as my kind.
There are things that drain my mental health while I think about them. I still think of them. The world crumbles on my head and no-one understands. Nobody offers assistance. There is no one at my side.
I read about Bertrand Russell trials and I laugh 😂. Ahha… I have had it rough but this… this is Savage!
The difference between him and I are, he was a world pariah, a Lord of philosophy and I… I am a nobody. A nothing. But a state coming for your head? This is too much.
As much as, Catholic groups and associations stroke against Bertrand Russell’s appointment as a professor, so also Catholic Reverends spoke in his defence! Just as for equality, men fighting at the forefront of the battle fighting for equal rights and opportunities for womxn. The whole fucking world was observing the case of Bertrand Russell.
Russel writes about Thomas Paine… “The world decided, as it usually does in such cases, to punish him for his lack of self-seeking; to this day his fame is less than it would have been if his character had been less generous.” I ponder to these words and I realise that good people are NEVER appreciated. only public-seeking approved individuals with narcissistic tendencies who meet the public eye with glittery and affluent are loved by them. People like Mother Theresa, Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. etc🙂.
Through this book Why I Am Not A Christian, I reinstated the underlying factor why most men tend to despise womxn after having sex with them. They tend to use denigrating words as; cheap, prostitute etc and then never wishes to see them again. They believe that the womxn pushed them to sin so they are evil. The cycle continues. That is because they believe sex is sin. Womxn are temptress.
Bertrand Russell, I LOVE YOUR MIND. But, you’re a sexist and homophobe. Being accused of supporting homosexuality doesn’t count after publicly declaring, you don’t support homosexuality and Oh thanks for pointing out some of the harmful effects of homosexual relations.
You should have done what you initially advice.
SHUT THE FUCK UP at your accusers!
My current read 😁. I hope to enjoy Kathryn Stockett as I did Bertrand Russell
I like this book, Tomorrow Died Yesterday 📙 because of its intense use of Port Harcourt slangs. Coming from Port Harcourt, it felt like home. I kept getting lost and lost with the mention of the food and Port Harcourt cities🥺🥺🥺. Awwwnnn… I miss Ph😞😓.
The writer Chimeka GARRICKS, who is also the author of Broken People’s Playlist made good use of Port Harcourt food and Niger Delta struggle. However, I felt it a bit amateurish. Me Goddess, I have never published a book 📙 before yet see me condemning a renowned Irish born author🤦🏾♀️. That’s my problem, I don’t know my mate. I now understand why Crush shushes me so I can know my mates and hangout with people of my level😎. Seriously, the book was a bit amateurish and I thought the author was like me or someone my ‘mate’😁, who believes in god, lives in Port Harcourt or had lived in PH, compiled the book into pdf and…sold⚒️! Aluta continua. But he is the author of Broken People’s Playlist, a very popular book 📙. Born in Dublin, an avid reader. So why write like an average Nigerian mind🤔?
I googled Chimeka GARRICKS and I found that he and I had read almost the same kind of books 📚, growing up.
Books he read growing up
His collection of books looked like my collection of books 📚. Chike and the River, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Burning Grass, African Series, The Concubine etc. Oh good old days with a fuckton (Akwaeke Emezi done teach me new fuck word😁) of good books 📚 which were written with heterosexual characters. The difference between him and I were, I have never travelled outside Rivers State, also I had no parent who built me a library nor interested in me reading😒. My reading 📖 to them was to avoid work☹️. A product of laziness😎.
He was also an avid reader like I am, so how come? How manage he gets to pull Nigerian movie script to such an awesome storyline? There were scenes I had paused for a minute to roll my eyes🙄 before I continued 😶. I mean, not everyone who smokes weed is a criminal. And not every heathen home is a dysfunctional family. Such mindset sef😒💅🏿.
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