Five books you should read #BookChallenge

Here is a list of five books of literature I think you should read. If you have not read any of them already words alone can't describe what you are missing. Certainly, readers travel in the pages of a book, and in these pages they experience new culture. Sometimes readers get lost (in the real sense of it) and sometimes they find themselves but we can be sure something new will happen.

1. Angela's ashes by Frank McCourt
   This is my favourite. Everyone has an idea of what poverty is, no doubt, but what McCourt did was make it as humorous has it can be. The part I loved most was when he had his first communion and threw up behind his grandma's house, the grandma had him in the confession box three times: first to seek penance for throwing up the body of Christ, second to ask the priest what should be done to the body of Christ in his grandma's backyard and lastly if to with what kind of water should the body of Christ be washed ordinary water or Holy water?
   The writing is very graphic, in it is the motion picture of a boy (Frank) feeding sugar solution to his baby sister who later died (quite a number of his siblings died before they cold answer their names).

2. Eat, pray, love by Liz Gilbert
   In this book of non fiction, Liz Gilbert gave an account of her voyage to the countries: Venice, Italy (where she had hoped to find love but found food instead); India (where she was spent all her time in devotion in an Ashram) and Bali, Indonesia (where she eventually found love). Before her voyage she had just gone thorough a divorce that left her bare, she returned whole. Travel can be said to be therapeutic.

3. Outline by Rachel Cusk
   It 's a conversation, really. It's a book that interrogates human decisions -how everything matters and every decision counts "should I take a drink?"; "should I talk to my neighbor in a plane?" - and how we are all connected in a way. The use of language denigrates Rachel Cusk as a master at her craft.

4. Painter of Water by Gbenga Adesina
   Painter of Water is a journey through Gbenga’s lenses to Africa, a water painted with blood and tears. Gbenga Adesina’s control of language helped to create images that will remain in my head for a long time. With Gbenga I went to places, landmarks, where history is made—Christmas in Chibok, Borno where the painter is. These journeys are anachronistic though, but I felt like I was there with the daughters of widows in their science schools where they were abducted, 200 of them.

5. The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
   I am convinced Jesmyn Ward's The Fire This Time will be a focal point of discussion around race. Amazingly, it is 2016 and we are still talking about racism, will we ever stop? Jesmyn Ward’s anthology addresses issues around race in a time when black bodies get shot at because their identity is mistaken—if it is right to say mistaken—for violence. The book reminds me of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, and it can be said that there is just a little difference between the two non-fiction texts. The book addresses the issues of racial equality in a manner that has the semblance of Baldwin. It is not a book of unforgivings, rather just grievances, that in 2016 our geography still has the semblance of Baldwin’s—not much has changed.

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Challenge: make a list of five books you think I should read, mention me in your post.