We are more alike, than we are unalike
There are few things more relaxing to me than sitting down with a blanket and a new romance novel. After years of reading romance, I’ve seen many themes in the genre. While the themes may be the same, I love to see how the characters or style of writing is different. Sara Desai has quickly…
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Living in a small town as a young adult can be stifling at a point in your life when you want nothing more than to explore yourself and the world. It is easy to daydream about what adventures await outside of town, but Casiopea makes a life-changing discovery right inside her grandfather’s home in Uukumil,…
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Rock music is not just a genre, but a sub-culture of society with its own fashion, attitudes, messaging, and language. In the early 1970s, rock bands like Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin and many more were at the top of the charts. It is at the beginning of this decade where Dawnie Walton places the…
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Synopsis In The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, Caroline Parcewell embarks on an anniversary trip to London without her unfaithful husband. The historian is struggling to deal with his infidelity and turns to a research project to occupy her time and thoughts. She uncovers evidence in the unsolved Apothecary Murders that have been a mystery…
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It’s not what you think it is! A young woman is hired to teach a creative writing class to a group of widows in the Sikh community.
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Infinite Country by Patricia Engel is the story of a family separated in two different countries, the United States and Colombia.
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Spoiler Alert- This review will contain some spoilers about the plot and characters of the story. Please continue reading at your own discretion. Synopsis In The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon, Samiah Brooks finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her with two other women after some live tweets go viral. Samiah and the two…
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General Review Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2003 debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, is the story of a family that is seemingly perfect on the outside with their own conflicts behind closed doors. Kambili and her older brother, Jaja, are the children of a wealthy businessman in Enugu, Nigeria. Their father, Eugene, is a faithful member of his…
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General Review In the past year, I have been trying to expand my taste in books to different genres. I have not read a lot of historical fiction recently, but the synopsis caught my attention. What I found was a story that not only entertained me, but encouraged me to find out more information about…
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General Review I saw The Vanishing Half on several book lists and saw it on tables at bookstores. The cover caught my eye and I just knew I had to read this book. After reading through the book once, I sat still. I needed a moment to process what I’d read because this story was…
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