Wayne J's GAR Random Challenge 2022

[Wayne]

I Have a couple of alternatives which will slot in if I do not get to these

Guinea: The Dark Child
Sierra Leone: Ancestor Stones
Mauritania: Guantánamo Diary
Gambia,Reading the Ceiling
Kenya: Weep Not, Child
Gabon: Tropic Moon
Cameroon: Cameroon with Egbert
Nigeria: No Longer at Ease

[Carolien]

I'm planning on reading Ancestor Stones this year, so another buddy read for us.

[Wayne]

Carolien wrote: "I'm planning on reading Ancestor Stones this year, so another buddy read for us."

Great, is it possible for us to start Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter next week some time. I need to get to a library next week for a copy ofSusters van Eva, and I am not sure if it will be available.

[Carolien]

That's fine as my copy is here.

[Wayne]

Finished my first country, Nigeria. No Longer at Ease, the second book in Chinua Achebe's African trilogy. There might be a technical problem with this one, in that I started reading it on the 30th of December. If that disqualifies it I am happy to slot in another. Will share a few lines about the book in due course.

[Wayne]

Q1 update: Read 60, 12 set in Africa, 10 African authors, but only read 1 of 8 in the Random African Travels Challenge thus far. I have a scheduled buddy read for Ancestor Stones later this month. Please feel free to join us.

[Carolien]

Looking forward to our buddy read, Wayne! It's amazing how we manage to read many books NOT in our challenges!

[Wayne]

I think part of the reason is that quite a few of the groups I belong to, select books on a monthly basis, whereas many of the challenges are picked in the beginning of the year. In the South African group this is less of a problem because we pick our own reads in the quarterly challenges, so greater possibility for overlap with the annual challenges.

I am looking forward to Ancestor stones. We have three more Buddy reads after this, so maybe we should look at our schedules for after July.

[Wayne]

Q2 update: Read 111, 26 set in Africa, 19 African authors, read 4 of 8 in the Random African Travels Challenge thus far.

[Wayne]

Guinea: The Dark Child
Sierra Leone : Ancestor Stones
Mauritania: Guantánamo Diary
Gambia :Reading the Ceiling
Kenya: Weep Not, Child
Gabon : Tropic Moon
Cameroon: Cameroon with Egbert
Nigeria: No Longer at Ease