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Fatoumata Diawara recommended Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone by Nina Simone in Music (curated)

 
Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone by Nina Simone
Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone by Nina Simone
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"Nina Simone is special to me because of her voice, the fact that she sings very low. When I listened to her voice for the first time, I asked my husband, 'who is this man?' and he said 'no, it's a woman!'. I told him: 'no, it's impossible, she's got a voice like a man!'. That was my first impression of her voice and of her music. I like to sing very low when I'm in the studio so I felt very comfortable listening to Nina Simone, because this is the way that I wanted to write my music and sing. Also, the fact that she wrote a lot of protest songs. 'Feeling Good'- you can interpret it as you want. When I listened to this song for the first time, it was my introduction to Western music. I was in Paris, and listening to this song was like freedom to me. Freedom, because when I left my family [in Mali], I ran away."

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Chloe (778 KP) rated All the Light We Cannot See in Books

Apr 3, 2021 (Updated Apr 3, 2021)  
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
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8.4 (14 Ratings)
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Fantastic characters (1 more)
Beautifully written
Long (1 more)
Slow in the middle
Unnecessarily long
So this is not my usual genre, but all the rave reviews plus a few recommendations from friends led me to read it.

The writing is so immersive, Marie- Laure's blindness allows for Anthony Doerr to really up the descriptive language and this truely helped bring the streets of Paris and Saint Malo to life for me. I love her relationship with her friends and family too.

I did not take as much of a liking to Warner, I'm not sure if this is due to the writing style changing slightly during his storyline.

The flicking between time frames is quite frustrating and I personally feel unnecessary. I found the middle third very long and slow. Plus the last third was underwhelming because it became obvious how they would meet 150 pages before they do.

I disliked that there meeting was so fleeting but I lived the simple circularity of the whole story.