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Coffee Break: Does Size (in books) Matter?

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… Continue Reading →

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… Continue Reading →

FromMyBookshelf: The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

I knew after the first 5 pages I won’t be reviewing this book. How can you critic one’s diary? I remember I had to keep on putting this book down, not because I wasn’t enjoying it, no, but because it’s… Continue Reading →

Review: Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, Vast! But why must it be vast?” Genre: Classic Fiction Pages: 485 Published: 1866 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the… Continue Reading →

Review: Cat Step by Alison Irvine

“Joy returned like a downpour of fresh rain, clearing the shooting stars from my head.” Genre: Fiction Published: 5th November, 2020 Publisher: Deadinkbooks Pages: 324 Rate: 2 ⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis One mistake can unravel everything…. She only left her daughter… Continue Reading →

The Women’s Prize For Fiction Reading Project

Hey Reader, I’m not one for literary prizes and for the longest I didn’t care for them until I came across The Women’s Prize For Fiction back in 2017. Going through the their long and short lists I realised that… Continue Reading →

Review: There There by Tommy Orange

“The thing we most don’t want has a way of landing right on top of us.” Genre: Fiction Published: 5th June, 2018 Pages: 290 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native… Continue Reading →

Coffee With Fay: Michelle of Empressofbookingham

Hey there, Reader. Today on the blog I have the pleasure of having Michelle. A free spirit, a writer, a poet and all round great friend. I had so much fun with this interview and I hope you do too,… Continue Reading →

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