Book Review: Why We Argue and How To Stop – A Therapist’s Guide to Navigating Disagreements, Managing Emotions, and Creating Healthier Relationships by Jerry Manney
Why We Argue and How To Stop: A Therapist’s Guide to Navigating Disagreements, Managing Emotions, and Creating Healthier Relationships by Jerry Manney Arguments, most times, lead to hurt and pain. This book is intended to make that a peaceful and amicable experience. The pages are filled with practical examples that are engaging and interactive, on how […]
Book Review – Zarina Patel: An Indomitable Spirit by George Gona
One of the least celebrated (maybe least famous) Independent Kenya heroines is Zarina Patel. In fact, no one remembers any other Indian in post-Independence Kenya that worked for multi-party democracy, social, political and environmental well-being. In politics, most know of Pio Gama Pinto. In the environment circles, most Kenyans know the exploits of the late […]
Book Review: Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf is a book about a good boy turned bad, or rather an old man who has lived his life as a shy and anti-social man suddenly discovering the joys of youth in old age. Harry Haller is a man who has resigned to fate. Sickly (gout) and suicidal, he doesn’t desire any joy anymore. […]
BOOK REVIEW: Tom Mboya by Prof. Bethwell Ogot
When I started reading this book, I thought it was unnecessary since the life and times of Thomas Joseph Mboya has been discussed much. However, as I perused the middle pages towards the end, I found out that Prof. Bethwell Ogot had done us justice. We needed this brief history of Mboya in the manner […]
Book Review: Yinka, Where is your huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
By Bennet Owuonda, The Nuria Book Seller The, book Yinka, where is your huzband is about acceptance of who you really are, and not seeking opinions of how about people look at you to determine who you really are. Yinka, is a successful young woman who has a career, degree, a house, a car but […]