Half of a Yellow Sun in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Feb 01, 2016 Rincey rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016, poc-author

3.5 stars

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Mar 01, 2021 Mycala rated it really liked it

Shelves: africa, 2021, lep-reading-challenge

The more I read, the more I realize my formal education did a pathetic job of teaching me world history. This was not an easy read. After all, it is about war. The viewpoints go back and forth among several people. Ugwu, the young man we meet early in the book who is starting a new job as a house boy for a well-respected professor. We watch him transform from a villager who doesn't know how to cook very well to someone with a more refined palate and excellent cooking skills. He is not sure what ...more

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Nov 19, 2016 Melissa Wiebe rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, movie-tie-ins, bookclub, fiction, award-winner, prize-winners, 2016, chimamanda-adichie

Really enjoyed the book. Well written. I really like how the book is readable despite its length. Recommended.

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Feb 22, 2015 molly rated it liked it

more like 3.5? i love adichie's writing, and i learned a lot about a part of african/nigerian history that i think most americans (especially those my age and younger) are totally ignorant of. but the structure didn't work terribly well for me (certain things that felt like they were supposed to be suspenseful were easily figured out with large clues), and i kept wanting an olanna/kainene viewpoint structure. i loved kainene, and wish she wasn't such a cypher, seen primarily through richard's ey ...more

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