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I’m Moving to Substack!
This site will now be an archive, as I’m moving most of my writing to Substack: Click to subscribe See you over there!
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Book Review // Counting the Cost
Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: Counting the Cost (2023)◐ Author: Jill Duggar◐ Genre: Memoir◐ Pages: 287 ◐ Synopsis (Goodreads):For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to…
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Book Review // Hex
Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: Hex (2022)◐ Author: Jenni Fagan◐ Genre: Historical Fantasy◐ Pages: 104 ◐ Synopsis (Goodreads):IT’S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh’s High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor – Iris, who says she comes…
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Book Review // Strange Eden
Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: Strange Eden◐ Author: Gina Giordano◐ Genre: Historical Fiction◐ Pages: 454 ◐ Synopsis (Goodreads): Everything familiar to Eliza has been ripped away. Even worse, the cruel deed was done by her own hands. Nassau, Bahamas, 1791… Eliza Sharpe, recently wed to a mysterious and brooding soldier, departs for the West Indies…
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Book Review // Linghun
Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: Linghun◐ Author: Ai Jiang◐ Genre: Gothic, Speculative Fiction◐ Pages: 178◐ Synopsis (Goodreads):Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian writer and immigrant, Ai Jiang. LINGHUN is set in the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the…
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Book Review // A Mother’s Reckoning
Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy◐ Author: Sue Klebold◐ Genre: Memoir◐ Pages: 336◐ Synopsis (Goodreads): On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound…
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Book Review // So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed◐ Author: Jon Ronson◐ Genre: Sociology, Social Psychology◐ Pages: 290◐ Synopsis (Goodreads):For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us – people who, say, made a joke on social media that came…
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Book Review // The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Amazon | Bookshop | Book Depository | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue (2020)◐ Author: V.E. Schwab◐ Genre: Fantasy◐ Pages: 444◐ Synopsis (Goodreads):France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life…
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Book Review // Everything I Never Told You ⭐⭐
Bookshop | Book Depository | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: Everything I Never Told You◐ Author: Celeste Ng◐ Genre: Modern Fiction◐ Pages: 297◐ Synopsis (Goodreads):Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and…
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Book Review // Babel ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Amazon | Bookshop | Book Depository | Goodreads ◐ Book Name: Babel◐ Author: R.F. Kuang◐ Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fantasy◐ Pages: 545◐ Synopsis (Goodreads):Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Babel is the world’s center of translation and, more importantly, of silver-working: the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation through enchanted silver…