Title: Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson My Ratings: 5 Stars Publisher: Riverhead Books Source: Times Reads Goodreads Synopsis: Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson’s taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life…
Book Review: She Speaks by Yvette Cooper
Title: She Speaks by Yvette Cooper My Ratings: 4 Stars Publisher: Atlantic Books London Source: Pansing Books Goodreads Synopsis: Looking at the greatest speeches of all time, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Elizabeth I and Boudica were about the only women to have dipped a toe into the pool of public oratory. But the…
Book Review: Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks
Title: Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks My Ratings: 4 Stars Publisher: Penguin Books Source: Times Reads Goodreads Synopsis: Emily just wants to keep the world away.She doesn’t want anyone to know all the ways her life is messed up.Going to anger management every Saturday, talking to strangers, was not part of the plan. Jake…
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Title: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng My Ratings: 4 Stars Publisher: Canon Gate Source: Pansing Books Goodreads Synopsis: It’s Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace…
Book Review: Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Title: Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella My Ratings: 5 Stars Publisher: Bantam Press Source: Times Books Goodreads Synopsis: Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic! The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It’s always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she…
Book Review: Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks
Title: Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks My Ratings: 5 Stars Publisher: Macmillan Source: Pansing Books Goodreads Synopsis: Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is…
Book Review: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
Title: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell My Ratings: 5 Stars Publisher: Macmillan Source: Pansing Books Goodreads Synopsis: The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the…
Book Review: Me by Elton John
Title: Me by Elton John My Rating: 4 Stars Publisher: MacMillan Source: Pansing Books Goodreads Synopsis: Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was on his first tour…
Book Review: Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
Title: Finding Chika by Mitch Albom My Rating: 5 Stars Publisher: Sphere Source: Pansing Books Goodreads Synopsis: Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was…
Book Review: You Bring The Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
Title: You Bring The Distant Near by Mitali Perkins My Rating: 4 Stars Publisher: Square Fish Source: Pansing Books Goodreads Synopsis: Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide…
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