Hey Reader! It has been a while since I have done a discussion post so I thought it was time to rectify. Hopefully I'll be putting up at least one in a month. If you've read my big books post then you know I'm attempting to read 5 big books on my tbr. I had… Continue reading Coffee Break: Does Size (in books) Matter?
Month: February 2021
Review: The Answers by Catherine Lacey
"...people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along." Genre: Literary Fiction Pages: 291 Publisher: Granta Published: 6th June, 2017 Rate: 3 ⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various aftereffects via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship In… Continue reading Review: The Answers by Catherine Lacey
Review: Love In Colour by Bolu Babalola
"Love immediately pulled at her. It was a kind of love she'd never known; unburdened, pure and without expectation." Genre: Fiction / Short Stories Published: August 20, 2020 Page: 290 Rate: 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐ Get a copy: Textbookcentre Goodreads Synopsis A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, longs… Continue reading Review: Love In Colour by Bolu Babalola
Review: The Wolf And The Water by Josie Jaffrey
"It felt like family, that intimacy, that acceptance, and Kala wanted it keenly." Genre: Historical Fantasy Published: 2020 Pages: 268 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Some secrets are worth killing for The ancient city of Kepos sits in an isolated valley, cut off from the outside world by a towering wall. Behind it, the souls… Continue reading Review: The Wolf And The Water by Josie Jaffrey
Review: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
"It's never the changes we want that change everything." Genre: Fiction Pages: 335 Published: September 6th, 2007 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar… Continue reading Review: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz