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  Review by Ronica Wahi Junction: Time’s Ticking By L.A. Evans First published: July 2, 2020, Elizabeth Guttridge. Kindle Edition Pages: 254. ASIN: B08CBGVXMT “Keep following your path but look out for side roads. Don’t let them pass you by.” This is what an old lady co-passenger on a bus tells the protagonist and narrator Aisha Brown in Chapter 9 of Junction: Time’s Ticking by L.A. Evans. This advice is what Aisha keeps recalling, for she knows that even if only to a limited extent, she can exercise her will. To a limited extent for sure, because this novel drills home the fact that there is only so much that an individual can control and decide, and must do what he or she is able to; destiny is what will chart out the major route and destination. This aspect of destiny is explored within the framework of the mysterious, and what the reader is offered is a ride on a thriller, albeit unlike the usual class of thrillers. Aisha had a job she enjoyed and a family sh...

  Review by Ronica Wahi Cancer Daily Life Writer: Carola Schmidt Illustrator: Rafael Antonio First published: July 11, 2020, Independently Published. Kindle Edition Pages: 28.  ASIN: B08GY5R77K The Corona pandemic has taught us all how difficult it is to live with limitations placed on us. To read “Cancer is…To feel like you don’t have to change anything in your habits when a pandemic starts.” tells us how constrained a person suffering from cancer feels. It goes without saying that when that person is a kid, it is tougher. Yes, Cancer Daily Life , written by Carola Schmidt and illustrated by Rafael Antonio, lays bare the challenges that anyone with the disease seeks to surmount on an everyday basis. Yet, the book is not gloomy; it is hopeful and quite literally too, colourful. The words and the illustrations go hand in hand to offer a whole package of life – therefore, there is mention of struggles, bounds, aches, joys, and fantasies. The cover shows a bir...