rhabarbaschorle 's review for:

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Absolutely loved reading It. Wonderful reminder how a book can take you around the world and into peoples homes, heads and hearts. 

Portrays a character who acts rather passive and has things happen to her, but with a very rich mind, and I enjoyed the contrast, and her feelings towards the people that acted very different than her
Also LOVED that spicy energy between her and the priest, this book has got me craving again

Some lines I don’t want to forget: 
p. 71 

Her laughter floated upstairs into the living room, where I sat reading. 

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She walked fast, like one who knew just where she was going and what she was going to do there. And she spoke the way she walked, as if to get as many words out of her mouth as she could in the shortest time.

p. 226

He laughed and said he believed they could jump higher than they thought they could. And that they had just proved him right.

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.

p. 276

I wished that I could think about something, anything, so that I would no longer feel.