27 Friday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry
Hurray! My second poetry collection and first book of Cherita is now available both in Paperback and Kindle format on Amazon. 🙂
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Heart Flame
full moon
the garden aflame
with fireflies
© Celestine Nudanu
27/07/18
Stardust Haiku Journal July 2018
24 Tuesday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Fiction, Publication, Reviews, Romance, Uncategorized
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Africa, Forgiveness, Ghana, love, marriage, Nigeria, Relationships, romance, Seduced Hearts, Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku
Title: Seduced Hearts
Author: Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku
Format: Kindle
Genre: Romance
Publisher: Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku
Pages: 202
Publication Date: November 2015
Reason for reading: Verified Purchase. (love a good romance)
Blurb
Is a lovely marriage enough?
Ghanaian designer, Efua Flonta has a marriage and a life many women dream of. Her ![Seduced Hearts: A Body ~Tingling Romance by [Eromonsere-Ajanaku, Stella]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SJQr8jGhL.jpg)
heart lies with her racy husband, Xavier and two young children. Her marriage vows are sacred until she meets a man who threaten everything she holds dear.
Sexy formula one racing champion, Xavier Flonta wants nothing more than to please his beautiful wife and children. When an old friend stops over, he does not bargain for one weekend of trouble. Will Efua and Xavier pull together to save their marriage in time for Christmas or will the hurt be too painful?
My Thoughts
Marriage can be a beautiful experience or journey if all the cards are played right and the partners involved love each other genuinely. For Efua and Xavier Flonta, everything is perfect, or so it seems. They both have damaging secrets that even their steamy nights and days cannot overshadow.
I read this book overnight. Fast paced just like the formula one driving Xavier, full speed and when I finished I knew I had really landed with a whoosh. 🙂
Stella has written a romance that makes one question the validity of one’s marriage vows especially in the face of such agonising and explosive revelations by the parties. But in the end, forgiveness becomes vital to keep the marriage together.
What is striking about Seduced Hearts is the strong extended family links. In Ghana, we say when you marry a person, you marry the whole family; Xavier and Efua have strong links to their extended families and the two entities are pivotal in the reconciliation, though in the end, Xavier and Efua have to fight their own demons, come to terms with their flaws and ultimately decide to let love prevail. Yes, as I mention flaw, let me add that both characters are nicely flawed and that make them human. Did I love the characters? Hmm, Xavier is my man, and when you read the book you will know why. 🙂
I give Seduced Hearts five ‘heart-shaped’ stars and highly recommend it to all lovers of romance and those who are interested in knowing about Ghana
AUTHOR BIO
Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku is a fun-loving mother of two teenagers, married to her gorgeous husband and best friend who indulges her romantic habits. Writing contemporary and historical romance novels is an exciting adventure for her. Out of curiosity and belief that love conquers all, she has written several Interracial & Multicultural Romance Novels. 
In 2010, Stella created Flirty & Feisty Romance Novels, a collection of toe-curling, intriguing, and skin-tingling romance with compelling characters who have heart and soul and jump off the pages of the book. All her stories are dotted with twists and turns and are set in fascinating Africa, enticing Europe & enchanting America.
To experience and enjoy an intense emotional ride, pick up a copy of any of her novels: Loitering Shadows, Beyond the Lady, The Gardener’s Ice Maiden, Sparkling Dawn, Husband to Rent, Stolen Valentine Kiss (Holiday Series #1), Kiss My Lips (Holiday Series #2), Forbidden Dance, Stolen Valentine Kiss & Kiss My Lips (Holiday Series 2~ Books ~ in ~ 1), Tempting Desire, Seduced Hearts, Red Velvet Rose and Wild Whispers. Stella’s first historical/suspense/mystery romance, Royal Cowries (Cowries Series #1) will give you an insight into a different Africa.
A luxury home by the seaside is on Stella’s wish list. In her spare time, she loves to swim on her back like a starfish, watch TV, go to the movies with her family and read romance novels.
20 Friday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication
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Hurray! My second poetry collection and first book of Cherita is now available both in Paperback and Kindle format on Amazon. 🙂
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Empty Shells
billowing shores
the echo…
in empty shells
© Celestine Nudanu
20/07/18
13 Friday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication
sunset
the fading glow
of hibiscus
11 Wednesday Jul 2018
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Amazon, Celestine Nudanu, Cherita, Ghana, Kindle, Whispers of Dawn
Good News to all my friends out there! Whispers of Dawn, (A book of Cherita) is now live and available for purchase in Kindle Format on Amazon. Yay. 🙂 Please download your copies and kindly leave a review on Amazon for me after reading. Thank you all so very much for your lovely support over the years. 🙂 God richly bless you. 🙂
09 Monday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Cherita, Dawn, Ghana Association of Writers, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication, Reviews
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Cherita, Ghana, Gillena Cox, Publication, review, Whispers of Dawn
Here is a wonderful review of my book Whispers of Dawn from my blogging friend in Trinidad & Tobago, Gillena Cox.
Yes she has done it again! Celestine Nudanu has dipped into her conscious yin and yang pulling out some trinkets for us; some sparkly as fine-cut diamonds, some dark as somber onyx. She has spilled across pages more than 50 poems called cherita. Telling her personal stories and sharing her cultural essence.
Choosing this concise genre to detail issues such as love, longing, despair, gratitude, death and self-realization, is no easy task, yet this is the holy grail that this poet embarks on, and succeeds in her attainment, as ‘Whispers of Dawn’
The cherita is a 6 line poem which tells a story, in fact it is a Malay word meaning story and is a form created by Ai Li.
Ai Li, in her foreword of this collection remarks, “The cherita genre could almost have been created just for Celestine, for her to gift to us her stories”
Best wishes with your outreach pursuits for a fine collection of poems, dear Celestine. Certainly, this is not a book you can read only once.
THANKS FOR AGREEING TO BOOK SWAP Celestine [ i have sent her a copy of my ‘Pink Crush’.
much love
gillena
Purchasing Links for Whispers of Dawn (A Book of Cherita)
Purchasing Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
06 Friday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication
Hurray! My second poetry collection and first book of Cherita is now available in Paperback on Amazon. 🙂
First Rays
streaming…
through open window
first rays of summer
Haiku Windows – The Haiku Foundation, June 2018)
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
© Celestine Nudanu
06/07/18
Links for Whispers of Dawn (A Book of Cherita)
 Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
04 Wednesday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Guests, Poetry, Publication, Reviews, Romance
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Finland, Khaya Ronkainen, love, nautre, ode, romance, Seasons Defined
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Seasons Defined:Poems of Love and Seasons
Author:Â Khaya Ronkainen
Binding: Kindle
Genre:Â Â Â Poetry
Pages:Â Â Â 26
Publication Date: May 30, 2018
Publishers: QuillInInk Press
Reasons for Reading: Verified purchase
Blurb
Seasons Defined is a short poetic memoir, where seasons are placed in a position to define love, home and the journey to self as made by an immigrant. Each poem shows a different aspect of that love, its time, its infancy-to-maturity, its human foibles and desperate fears, its temper and its passionate love. This is a love cycle from spring to winter.
My Thoughts
I hardly review poetry and as a poet that is real funny. I have quite a number of ![Seasons Defined: poems of love and seasons by [Ronkainen, Khaya]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41LmiX4VboL.jpg)
poetry books I’ve read and enjoyed but hardly a review. But this is different. Maybe I am biased but this is Khaya’s poetry, 🙂 and a beautiful one at that.
Seasons Defined by Khaya Ronkainen is a wonderful  collection of sixteen nature poems, truly a beautiful ode to nature and love. Khaya’s words are a lovely blend of seasonal aromas and elegant whiff of romance. I liked every bit of poetry in this book. I particularly like that in almost all the poems the poet links nature to love, she sees love at play in the seasons. Love defines her seasons and the seasons define the love she has found. The reader can see into her soul through her words, and this is exquisite!
Through the poet’s choice of words one can almost hear her laughter and feel her joy in the various seasons of winter, autumn, summer and spring. Khaya also celebrates her country, Finland in her poems. She celebrates the landscapes and the people and the joys and sorrows. The poems reflect feelings of gratitude at the peace and solitude she finds in her adopted country.
Khaya Ronkainen is an amazing poet and I urge all to get copies of her Seasons Defined to feed your souls through the changing seasons.
Copies are available at Amazon
Reading Pleasure 