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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom From Goodreads What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we … Continue reading Book review: I Hope we Choose Love
A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena From Goodreads Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school. You don't want … Continue reading Book review: A Girl Like That
Night Film by Marisha Pessl On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of … Continue reading Book review: Night Film
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See From Goodreads In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate … Continue reading Book review: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis From Goodreads Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the … Continue reading Mini Review: The Boy in the Suitcase
Howdy, friends. Before we get into the post, this is my 666th post, which is fun. Anyway, today, I decided to undertake a large task: rank every single three-star book I've read. Why did I decide to do this? Good question, I have no idea, please don't ask me. But, I did, and here's the … Continue reading Ranking all my three-star reads
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neil From Goodreads Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children … Continue reading The Lonely Hearts Hotel review
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline From Goodreads IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based … Continue reading Book review: Ready Player One
Slide by Jill Hathaway From Goodreads Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth - her sister's friend Sophie didn't kill herself. She was murdered. Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn't actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else's mind … Continue reading Book review: Slide
(Before we get to the review, I just wanted to say (again) that my comments are 100% being labelled as spam, so please check your spam folders!) The Seven (& 1/2) Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton ★★★★☆ 3.5 stars, rounded to 4 I’m not going to put the official Goodreads blurb because I … Continue reading Book review: The Seven (and 1/2) Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand From Goodreads Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find. Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s … Continue reading Book review: Sawkill Girls
Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami From Goodreads The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play. He describes living with a pair of identical unnamed female twins, who mysteriously appear … Continue reading Mini review: Pinball, 1973
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