Reading the Ceiling

Ayodele has just turned eighteen and has decided, having now reached womanhood, that the time is right to lose her virginity She s drawn up a shortlist Reuben, the fail safe a long admired school friend abd Frederick Adams, the 42 year old, soon to be pot bellied father of her best friend What she doesn t know is that her choice of suitor will have a drastic effect on the rest of her life Three men Three paths One will send Ayodele to Europe, to university and to a very different life but it will be a voyage strewn with heartache Another will send her around the globe on an epic journey, transforming her beyond recognition but at the cost of an almost unbearable loss And another will see her remain in Africa, a wife and mother caught in a polygamous marriage Each will change her irrevocably but which will she choose New Read [ Reading the Ceiling ] author [ Dayo Forster ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is a good book if you are doing one of those Around the World challenges and you are struggling to find a book from the Gambia did you know it was THE Gambia.It s a perfect book for this sort of thing a perfect mix of the exotic and the familiar, not too challenging, giving you just enough of insight into the culture without making you uncomfortable It meshes the European with the African, the traditional with the modern and shows African women dancing on the fine line between the two This is a good book if you are doing one of those Around the World challenges and you are struggling to find a book from the Gambia did you know it was THE Gambia.It s a perfect book for this sort of thing a perfect mix of the exotic and the familiar, not too challenging, giving you just enough of insight into the culture without making you uncomfortable It meshes the European with the African, the traditional with the modern and shows African women dancing on the fine line between the two The main character is Ayodele who on her 18th birthday decides that she would have someone pop her cherry The emphasis is put on the fact it is her first very own choice and she will make the most of it Organised as she is, she draws up a list of four potential candidates and gives herself till the evening to decide who to do the Deed with Then the narrative splits in three and follows the consequences of each choice in different alternate universes The weird thing about Adoyele is that she was so insi...The premise of the book was interesting A girl turns 18 and decides to lose her virginity on that night She has a list of 3 possible partners.The book then tells her story in a Sliding Doors manner what happens depended on which partner she went with.The three parts of the story...I had higher hopes but it is still an interesting read we don t get so much fiction out of the African continent that we can afford to misprize it As the book developed, so did the writing I would expect growth as a writer in the future and look forward to reading .I agree with the other reviews that this is a fine option if you are doing a world books challenge and need a book from the Gambia this is why I read it, and it s certainly readable but there isn t much to recommend it beyond that.Reading the Ceiling has an interesting premise the narrator, Ayodele, is turning 18 and determined to get initiated into the mysteries of sex, so she needs to choose a partner with whom to do the deed The three sections of the book follow alternate versions...On her eighteenth birthday, Ayodele decides, she will not only have a great party at the best disco in town, she will also choose a one off mate to take her from childhood to womanhood It is an empowering feeling and the choice is hers, not common in her society at that time First time Gambian novelist Dayo Forster has written a lively, fast paced and delightful novel built around an intriguing concept three different scenarios unfold for her life, depending on the man she chooses for that fa On her eighteenth birthday, Ayodele decides, she will not only have a great party at the best disco in town, she will also choose a one off mate to take her from childhood to womanhood It is an empowering feeling and the choice is hers, not common in her society at that time First time Gambian novelist Dayo Forster has written a lively, fast paced and delightful novel built around an intriguing concept three different scenarios unfold for her life, depending on the man she chooses for that fateful nightAs she runs through the list of potentials, the reader is given a first glimpse into her life and ...The author is Gambian Yes, that matters to me as much as the stories she has weaved together in Reading the Ceiling Growing up and understanding the power of representation and writing our own stories has pushed me into a year of reading works from female African authors only for a year This book is one I wished I had read in my teenage years, as I struggled to place my feet on solid ground while navigating the pressures of growing up as a teenage African girl Ayodele s story mattered For The author is Gambian Yes, that matters to me as much as the stories she has weaved tog...Set in Gambia, this novel traces a young woman s choices through three alternative lives The author catches the tone and attitudes of Ayodele as a teenager and then young and middle aged woman well All of our choices determine both create and limit the subse...It is very interesting yet not deep enough Dele s reactions in the second story are very overrated comparing to Dele of the first story, as if it were a different person The third story is the best, I enjoyed it so much As she said the moral of the story is If you want somet...I read it at a point in my life when I had to make life changing decisions without the benefit of foresight.very influential.I like the books in book formattook me back to Jeffrey Archer, RL Stine and the rest.Should be made a recommended book for high school girls..tackles scen...Reading the Ceiling is told in three parts, each one starting on the night of Ayodele s birthday and then spanning the next fifty or so years of her life You get to see how one choice can shape Ayodele s life but at the same time there are many things that are outside of her control For instance, things that happen to characters around Ayodele, like tragic accidents or the choice of a university, generally happen no matter who she chose to sleep with The interesting thing was that while her c Reading the Ceiling is told in three parts, each one starting on the night of Ayodele s birthday and then spanning the next fifty or so years of her life You get to see how one choice can shape Ayodele s life but at the same time there are many things that are outside of her control For instance, things that happen to characters around Ayodele, like tragic accidents or the choice of a university, generally happen no matter who she chose to sleep with The interesting thing was that while her choice set Ayodele on three very different paths, she herself was still the same person deep down, no matter where life took her She s headstrong with a good work ethic, she s smart and capable of being both independent and in a re...

• English
• 21 October 2017
Dayo Forster
• Paperback
• 277 pages
• 0743295714
• Dayo Forster
• Reading the Ceiling