I was on page 15 of this book, when I took a long deep breath and covered my eyes, so I could deal with the emotion better. I grew up as a single mother’s daughter. The novel is just getting started, and no, my dad didn’t die and my mom wasn’t a traditionalist housewife, and yet… Everything is the same.…
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The Hype Does Not Disappoint – Malibu Rising Is Definitely Worth It! Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
And, Taylor Jenkins Reid does it again – Malibu Rising is an unbelievable, steady burn novel that doesn’t let you down a for a single moment. Strong characters, unique destinies and a sufficiently tangled, yet chill plot that will leave you hoping she’ll produce one more of these gems sometime soon. Check out on Goodreads ★★★★★ 5 stars How I…
Continue Reading→A Magical Story Of Love And Letting Go That I Gobbled Up In One Sitting Ghostlove by Dennis Mahoney, ★★★★★ 5 stars
Last night I read a truly unforgettable book. It’s one of those books I’m sure I’ll remember forever, and it’s one of those that feel like they were secretly written for you. The experience was just uncanny, and it left me with so many thoughts and feelings, and now I’m struggling to put them in words. Ghostlove by Dennis Mahoney…
Continue Reading→A Book About Finding Yourself And Belonging – And So Many Other Themes The Royal Abduls by Ramiza Shamoun Koya
I feel like if I wanted to give The Royal Abduls a proper review, I’d have to write a whole other book about it – I just can’t see how I would put it all into a single-post review. This story was great, and it’s just so full of everything – it covers a large variety of topics, but the…
Continue Reading→Imagine Stepping From The 19th Century Straight Into The 21st The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
When I saw the blurb of The Lost Shtetl, I was immediately drawn in. It sounded like an absurdly ridiculous, yet mesmerizing concept – a Jewish town in the Polish woods so remote it gets overlooked for more than a hundred years, so much so that it is even missed by the Holocaust. The people living there go around their…
Continue Reading→Heavy Content, Quirky Writing – Definitely Not For Everyone, But I Enjoyed Reading It Bunyan's Guide to the Great American Wildlife by Quentin Canterel, ★★★★☆ 4 stars
Bunyan’s Guide to the Great American Wildlife is no easy read, both for its contents (quite triggering) and its style (a lot of reviewers found it to be all over the place). Since I’ve read another book by Quentin Canterel, I can firmly say it’s simply the author’s quirky style, but if you get used to his storytelling, you will…
Continue Reading→Eleanor Oliphant Broke My Heart And Glued It Back Together In Three Evenings Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, ★★★★★ 5 stars
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine was one of those books I kept hearing about, over and over again, all of the previous year. I didn’t bother looking into it took much, in fact, I wasn’t even sure I would ever be reading it. But then people kept saying it was so good, I decided that I might. And during my…
Continue Reading→The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, ★★★★★ 5 stars A Wonderful Journey Into The Self Through Quite A Scenic Route
Some say that a person becomes his circumstances. Or, at least, that someone’s circumstances make them who they are. Because it’s enough to only thrust someone into an unfamiliar, different environment, and they seem to become a whole different person. Have you had this happen to you? Have you ever felt how when you go on vacation, you’re suddenly so…
Continue Reading→The Four Women by Michelle Keill A Complex, Emotional, Smart And Incredibly Dark Tale
The Four Women is a strange, unique story you can’t quite make something of, at first. The strongest thing about it is that it’s littered with dark premonitions and foreboding, but it’s dosed so measuredly that it will keep you guessing about why what happens will happen – even if you’ve known it will happen ever since you’ve started reading…
Continue Reading→[Literary] Great Social Commentary, But Poor Reading Experience The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - Buddy Read with JJ @ This Dark Material!
It seems I can never go a month without a buddy read! And that’s good, because they’re so much fun. This time, me and JJ @ This Dark Material read The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Tartt is actually one of my favorite authors, although previously I had just read one book by her – The Goldfinch, which is one of my…
Continue Reading→I’ve Spotted A Breathtaking New Talent… The Girl in the Blue Shoes by Shaun Hume
Ah, self-pub books… Don’t you just love it how one of those can turn out to be either a spectacular, marvelous masterpiece, or a complete pile of indescribable trash, spelling errors or cliches galore? Oddly, the chances of either of those happening are roughly 50/50. So I was incredibly happy to find out that not only is Shaun a really cool guy,…
Continue Reading→All The Light… I Could Not See In This One Buddy Read And Good Riddance!
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★☆☆☆ 2 stars I loooooove buddy reads! So much so, that I’m pretty much going to do this kind of review monthly now. And this buddy read was with my friend Trang @ Bookidote, and while I really enjoy chatting with her, we weren’t so lucky with the book, it seems. Trang mostly…
Continue Reading→I Feel Bad About Not Liking This One, But… The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★✬☆☆ 2.5 stars Well… You never feel great when you are about to give a not-so-glowing review to a really well known, acclaimed writer’s work. But the review’s gotta be honest. So honest it will be. In fact, I’ve recently written a post about how to write a review for a book…
Continue Reading→What If Men And Women Could Bear Children Equally? The Growing Season by Helen Sedgwick
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★✬ 4.5 stars I don’t think there’s a book by Helen I could hate. Maybe if she wrote it backwards with her left foot, while riding on a gray mare, also backwards over muddy marshes..? Yet, still. I think I’d love it too. There’s just something about Helen’s style and topics that always appeals…
Continue Reading→Things To Do When You’re Goth In The Country ...This title doesn't even *need* a fancy headline!
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars Really, the name of Things To Do When You’re Goth In The Country doesn’t even need me to come up with a snazzy headline for the post. It’s already kickass enough. So naturally, when I saw this book and read what it was about, I couldn’t fail to hit the…
Continue Reading→A Life Can Be Lived 4..3..2..1 Literary Ways? 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars I have neglected posting this book’s review for far too long. Especially when it has been such a pleasant experience reading it as it has. This is one of those slow-burn books that you just can’t really read fast – what with it being over 800 pages and all,…
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