ZODML Recommends: On Black Sisters' Street, Some Kind of Black

In my quest to read less James Patterson and Eric Jerome Dickey, and more books by Nigerian authors, I will be curled up on my sofa, listening to Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience (for the tenth time) and reading a previous ZODML Book of the Week, Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. So far, the book has had me turning the pages quicker to find out what’ll happen next. - Ayodele Dele-Giwa
My friend wants me present at what may turn out to be a wild birthday party on Sunday evening. She knows I am no sport for such company but she is not having it. So I’ve made up a perfect excuse, “I have an urgent review of the book On Black Sisters’ Street to submit to my editor on Monday.” I’m choosing the book because I know she’s been gushing over it ever since she read it. It will be my second time reading the book but it is worth every second I may have to spend at a gathering of inebriated strangers. - Frank Onuoha
Diran Adebayo has been highly praised  for his acclaimed first novel, Some Kind of Black and I am intrigued by finding out what the book entails to deserve such accolades. The book won a number of awards including the 1995 Saga Prize, The Writer’s Guild of Great Britain’s New Writer of the Year Award for 1996, a Betty Trask Award, and the Authors’ Club’s Best First Novel Award. For a first book to have accrued all these awards, I think it deserves being given a trial of seeing what is inside. It was also one of the recent ZODML's Book of the Week recommendations. - Dave Agboola
I am still mourning the (upcoming) demise of Google Reader and debating which of the myriad alternatives I should switch to (I'm currently leaning towards Feedly). For those who aren't in the know, Google Reader is an RSS feed aggregator through which you can keep up to date with all of your favourite blogs (including ZODML's!). I have a lot of unread items, so I plan to catch up this weekend, starting with this Chimamanda Adichie interview on the New Yorker's Page-Turner blog. - Mena Odu
I will be finishing Chibundu Onuzo’s The Spider King’s Daughter. Having read the first five chapters, I am excited about the fact that a wealthy man’s daughter crushes on a (handsome) hawker who sells ice-cream on the streets of Lagos. What relationship does a rich man’s kid have with a street hawker? - Morayo Oshodi What are you doing this weekend?