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The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré

Start date: December 15, 2023

Finish date: January 15, 2024

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Mar 27, 2021 Sheila rated it really liked it · review of another edition

My in person book group decided not to read this one from a choice of two debut novels, reasons included the possibe difficulties with dialect! I was dissappointed by this and read it anyway. I had read reviews which said it preached down to readers, and asked why the author had invented a new broken English for the Yoruba speaking girl narrator of the story. Nigeria has a pidgeon which I suppose shecould have used but for me at least that always remained more unintelligible than trying to chat ...more

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Dec 24, 2023 spoko rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, book-club, africa

It's a good story, but I had trouble continuing to buy Adunni's credulous simplicity. Especially given the difficulty of her life, how on earth could she never develop any ability to read the room better than that? It's not until the last few chapters that she seems to have any common sense about what to expect from those around her. Plenty of others have commented about the book's relentless string of miserable events that befall the protagonist, but no one seems to be pointing out that she bri ...more

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