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Xymalos
#121 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2018 6:16:49 AM
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Becoming by Michelle Obama. Its enjoyable to read.
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Apricot
#122 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:46:40 PM
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Lolest! wrote:
Apricot wrote:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Bought this together with his book "Crime and Punishment", which I will read after.

Where can I get Karamazov in Nairobi?


I don’t know where to get the book in Nairobi. I bought mine at Barnes and Nobles in US. Perhaps you may want to try Amazon, although their price is higher than B&N.
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tycho
#123 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2018 11:33:14 AM
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Apricot wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
Apricot wrote:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Bought this together with his book "Crime and Punishment", which I will read after.

Where can I get Karamazov in Nairobi?


I don’t know where to get the book in Nairobi. I bought mine at Barnes and Nobles in US. Perhaps you may want to try Amazon, although their price is higher than B&N.


Prestige bookshop has most of these classics. You could also do book hunting at the so called 'inama bookshops'.
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tycho
#124 Posted : Monday, April 01, 2019 4:30:42 PM
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gk
#125 Posted : Tuesday, April 02, 2019 2:54:39 PM
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tycho wrote:
Apricot wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
Apricot wrote:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Bought this together with his book "Crime and Punishment", which I will read after.

Where can I get Karamazov in Nairobi?


I don’t know where to get the book in Nairobi. I bought mine at Barnes and Nobles in US. Perhaps you may want to try Amazon, although their price is higher than B&N.


Prestige bookshop has most of these classics. You could also do book hunting at the so called 'inama bookshops'.




Where/which are the most reliable "inamas" in Nbi?
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Angelica _ann
#126 Posted : Tuesday, April 02, 2019 3:06:21 PM
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gk wrote:
tycho wrote:
Apricot wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
Apricot wrote:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Bought this together with his book "Crime and Punishment", which I will read after.

Where can I get Karamazov in Nairobi?


I don’t know where to get the book in Nairobi. I bought mine at Barnes and Nobles in US. Perhaps you may want to try Amazon, although their price is higher than B&N.


Prestige bookshop has most of these classics. You could also do book hunting at the so called 'inama bookshops'.




Where/which are the most reliable "inamas" in Nbi?


Inama are those guys on the streets selling books. You just have to loiter around. The one next on Moi Avenue next to family bank ATMs and the other on Tuskys next to Bomb blast memorial site are reliable. If they don't have, they will look for it, at a premium.
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tycho
#127 Posted : Tuesday, May 14, 2019 11:18:57 AM
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'Jomo's jailor' by Elizabeth Watkins. A little gem from an Inama...
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Lolest!
#128 Posted : Tuesday, May 14, 2019 11:28:51 AM
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Sowing the Mustard Seed by Yoweri Museveni

And:

Freedom and After- Tom Mboya
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Swenani
#129 Posted : Tuesday, May 14, 2019 11:29:47 AM
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Shak
#130 Posted : Tuesday, September 10, 2019 6:22:40 PM
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archive.org:
A massive online library with so many books available free of charge. I see myself reading at least 50 books by end of this year. Highly recommended
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Lolest!
#131 Posted : Tuesday, September 10, 2019 6:48:20 PM
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The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini.

Had to buy after reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. The latter was more gripping.
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#132 Posted : Tuesday, September 10, 2019 7:31:05 PM
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Shak wrote:
archive.org:
A massive online library with so many books available free of charge. I see myself reading at least 50 books by end of this year. Highly recommended

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heri
#133 Posted : Tuesday, October 08, 2019 12:50:53 PM
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I enjoy reading biographies/autobiographies

which other ones would you recommend. I have read the following

1.Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
2.The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
3.Sam Walton, Made in America by Sam Walton/John Huey
4.The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and The Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
5. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
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Lolest!
#134 Posted : Tuesday, October 08, 2019 2:01:40 PM
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heri wrote:
I enjoy reading biographies/autobiographies

which other ones would you recommend. I have read the following

1.Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
2.The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
3.Sam Walton, Made in America by Sam Walton/John Huey
4.The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and The Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
5. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
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Shak
#135 Posted : Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:38:23 PM
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Lolest! wrote:
Caroline Elkin's 'Britain's Gulag'

A sad, embittering collection of accounts from detainees during the 1950s emergency. Brings to light facts like Winston Churchill govt's knowledge and permission of use of torture in detention just after WW2 where the Nazis were condemned for the same.

Torture included beatings(to death), starvation, forced labour (detainees labour gave us JKIA, Yatta irrigation & Mwea Irrigation schemes), castration, stuffing sand through mouth or anusSad

Life wasn't any better for those left in concentration villages. There was forced labour, beatings, rape, famine and many deaths

Not yet done with it but would recommend it for anyone interested in Kenyan history

This is such a difficult read. My parents lived through this period right in the heart of the violence but somehow came out unscathed. Parts of it ring familiar from the stories they told us but I now realize how much they censored them for the sake of our young ears. I feel a range of emotions: bitterness, hurt, disgust and I'm not yet halfway through....
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