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The Shadow King
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Hello Everyone!
Thank you for tuning in to Episode 4 of Semiscribbled Podcast.
In this podcast, I review The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste.
This was an excellent but dense read and my trying to pull another marathon read made it hectic. I still really loved reading this book although I also listened to a majority of it via audiobook. The audiobook definitely helped with the pronunciation of names and the voicing of characters as Maaza tends not to use quotation marks in her work, don't worry you won't get lost! I speak about the role of women in the 1935 War in Ethiopia, how we classify our heroes and heroines and why being human means having duality, all aspects that came out in this really great book. I end my review by asking a few questions that popped out to me while reading this. Sorry about how raspy I sound in this episode I was coming down with something.
I listened to part of The Shadow King via audible but this is not a sponsored episode!
Project3541 is an online archive of photos & memories from the Italian-Ethiopian war. Project 3541 includes images from the private collection of Maaza Mengiste, whose novel, The Shadow King, tells the story of this war and those who lived through it.
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