#the girl with the louding voice

[jamsmemes]

( * BOOK PROMPTS !

the girl with the louding voice - abi daré.

❛  i taste the salt of my tears at the memory of it all. ❜

❛  you know how this is a good thing for your family.  ❜

❛  i don’t want to just be having any kind voice. i want a louding voice.  ❜

❛  think how you been suffering since your mama.  ❜

❛ i know it is not what you want.  ❜

❛  think of how your family will be better because of it.  ❜

❛  you will suffer in this house.  ❜

❛  she will tell you that i am a wicked woman.  that my madness is not having cure. ❜

❛  i cannot remember much of what happened to me last night.  ❜

❛  i was too afraid of having a baby so quick, afraid of falling sick from the load of it.  ❜

❛  when i held her in my hands for the first time, my heart was full of so much love.  ❜

❛  my children make me laugh when i am not even thinking to laugh.  ❜

❛  children are joy. real joy.  ❜

❛  this is what i have been wanting all my life, to leave this place and see what the world outside is looking like.  ❜

❛  i hang my head down, feeling a thick, heavy cloth as it is covering me. the thick cloth of shame, of sorrow, of heart pain. ❜

❛  if she wants to dance, she should go to a bloody nightclub.  ❜

❛  god has given you all you need to be great, and it sits right there inside of you.  ❜

❛  you believe, i know you do.  ❜

❛  you just need to hold onto that belief and never let go.  ❜

❛  when you get up every day, i want you to remind yourself that tomorrow will be better than today. that you are a person of value. that you are important. ❜

❛  i wasn’t born into wealth. i have worked hard for my success. i fought for it.  ❜

❛  if you want to be like me in business, you will have to work very hard.  ❜

❛ never, ever give up on your dreams. do you understand? ❜

❛ you are me. i am you.  ❜

❛  there are words in my head, many things i want to say.  ❜

❛  i want to live in this life and help many people so that when i grow old and die, i will still be living through the people i am helping. ❜

❛  we can all be understanding each other if we just take the time to listen well.  ❜

❛  you must do good for other people, even if you are not well, even if the whole world around you is not well.  ❜

❛  who knows what else tomorrow will bring? ❜

❛  the future is always working, always busy unfolding better things, and even if it doesn’t seem so sometimes, we have hope of it.  ❜

❛  i want to shout at the night and tell it to never become a tomorrow.  ❜

❛  rich people have plenty brain problems.  ❜

❛  my chest feels full of birds flapping their wings inside of it.  ❜

❛  tomorrow will come. nothing i can do about that.  ❜

❛  get up. you are needed.  ❜

❛  sometimes even the strongest of people can suffer a weakness.  ❜

❛  anybody can learn.  ❜

❛  sometimes i wish i can just believe for a good life and it will magic and happen for me, just like that.  ❜

❛  it will all make sense one day. one day, things will get better.  ❜

❛  you’ve been through so much, so bloody much, and yet you always have a smile, you cheeky thing, you always have a damn smile on your face.  ❜

❛  i felt a fraction of what you had to endure for months.  ❜

❛  all this bullshit happening to me, that’s nothing compared to what you’ve been through. nothing.  ❜

❛ if you can pull it off, then kudos to you.  ❜

❛  who knows, maybe someone will talk about you too one day. you know, as part of history.  ❜

[softlifesofttech]

002 Excerpt

“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.”

The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today's disabled character of the day is Adunni from The Girl with the Louding Voice, who has an unspecified trauma disorder

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Cover of the book The Girl with the Louding Voice. It depicts the side profile of a girl with a dark skin tone facing the left of the frame. She is wearing a multi pattern dress and head band. She has dark brown hair in corn rows. The background is blue with a pink stemmed red flowers. Half the flowers are made of book pages.]

[disableddyke]

[roseandsalt]

"Your schooling is your voice, child. It will be speaking for you even if you didn’t open your mouth to talk"

[bloodmaarked]

➫ monthly book round-up: april 2024

books read: 6 [1 DNF] [=] average rating: 3.8 [+23%] average speed: 6.6 days [-37%] total pages: 2,215 [=] yearly goal progress: 22/50 best of the month: the girl with the louding voice, abi daré worst of the month: daughters of nri, reni k. amayo

5* reads:

the girl with the louding voice, abi daré

4.5* reads:

the gifts, liz hyder

4* reads:

the meaning of mariah carey, mariah carey

3* reads:

four eids and a funeral, faridah àbíké-íyímídé + adiba jaigirdar

2.5* reads:

shanghailanders, juli min

DNFs:

daughters of nri, reni k. amayo

currently reading:

black girls must die exhausted, jayne allen

[annelisreadingroom]

What books do you hope to read this month? I hope to get some reading done during my long flights because I'm going on vacation. I'm planning to pack at least The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley.

[willowser]

bakugou carries his little newborn around on his bare chest in the kitchen for a bit and then when she starts to get fussy, he lays her down on the couch to swaddle her back up, and she reaches her little arms high above her head and you can hear him quietly hum and say, all fondly,

"oooh, big stretch,"

and his sleepy face is all soft and his lips are curved up just a bit and he waits until she's done before carefully wrapping her up 🥺🩷✨️

[naetles]

i can't stop thinking about how excited this doofus was when he kneeled down to talk to sakura on the phone. look at him smiling and blushing and fidgeting. he is so clearly in love with her and it's maddening BECAUSE HE DOESN'T FUCKING REALIZE THAT HE IS.

[ssapphic-slvtt]

Can't stress enough how much I love hearing girls moan. It's so hot and immediately makes me want to go down on them without a thought ♡♡♡

[quillkiller]

all im saying is ive never seen someone criticize those marylily or dorlily fanart/fics where they’re harrys mothers and theres no james in sight

[percable]

In my head, Annabeth beat the shit out of uncle Rudolph.

“oh he meant well!”

Idc, he’s an old rich white man who let his family get hurt, and then proceeded to ignore the fact that Magnus was on the streets while he lived in a mansion. Only then to ask for his help when he deemed it necessary.

I refuse to believe that after Magnus’ funeral, even knowing that Magnus was still alive, Annabeth pulled Rudolph aside, and knocked him upside the head.

[brainrotcharacters]

Calypso: Tell me though, who's Penelope? 🤗

Odysseus: She's my wife.

Calypso: 😃

[pickled-flowers]

Saw some of the grossest parenting today in the bus

[bloodmaarked]

the girl with the louding voice // abi daré

first published: 2020 re-read: 24 april 2024 – 26 april 2024 first read: 2020 pages: 314 format: hardback

genres: fiction; african (nigerian); coming of age; literary fiction (light) favourite character(s): oh, adunni... least favourite character(s): there are a lot of awful people but i think big daddy is the worst

rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 thoughts: i didn't expect my first 5* rating of 2024 to be a reread of a book i first gave 4* back in 2020! but once i closed the last page it felt so obvious. i think the issues i had on first read, mainly centred around the writing being entirely in broken english, were so easy to get past this time around. because the main character, Adunni, grows up in a rural NIgerian village and only undergoes three years of formal education, she speaks entirely in broken english. i remembered this on reread, and so where i had found it difficult to parse the first time, which also made the book feel really slow, this time it felt way more natural and it was such a speedy read. and so, aside from that, all the things i loved in 2020, i love the same now. Adunni is just an amazing character, full of heart, wit, and charm. she moved me, and i found tears pricking behind my eyes more than once. she and her story are just incredible; i root for her as though she really exists. the supporting cast are so colourful, all with a role to play, all with their own stories and hardships. i just think this was brilliantly written for a debut.

i seriously wish more people talked about this book; it's such a hidden gem. i had this in mind to reread since last year, but i brought it forward to read as soon as i could. i've actually gotten access to an ARC of and so i roar, the upcoming book from abi daré set in the same world - and we get a little glimpse into where Adunni is now. i'm very much looking forward to reading that, and will post a review for it soon. in the meantime, you can read my original review for TGWTLV here.