Category: Reviews
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Where Dreams & Reality Collide: Sputnik Sweetheart Play (2023)
It was a random Monday when I saw the Sputnik Sweetheart play announcement in a Murakami newsletter. A couple of happy coincidences happened and I found myself in London, in a theatre in the middle of nowhere, and trying my best to contain my excitement to see this play.
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Review: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
3.5/5☕ | Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott as she navigates the treacherous and misogynistic 1950’s society and workplace. If you like a strong female character, with focus on how she overcame hurdles in life, this may be a book that you would enjoy.
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Review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
3.5/5☕ | If you like a short atmospheric book that explores moral dilemma amidst complacency of the majority, and what it means to hold on to your values – Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These might be for you.
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Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4/5☕ | In true Matt Haig fashion, The Midnight Library offered up a lot of life lessons and nuggets of wisdom that will stick to most readers’ hearts – as it stuck to mine.
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Review: Heartburn by Nora Ephron
4.5/5 ☕ | Heartburn is a short but sweet offering from the patron saint of romantic comedies which follows a food writer who, while in her seventh month of her second pregnancy, discovered that her husband is in love with another woman. 40 years into it’s publication and I feel like it still holds up.
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(Series) Review: Coffeehouse Mystery #1 to #4 by Cleo Coyle
4.4/5☕ | My recent audiobook streak has given yet another cosy mystery series to obsess about: The Coffeehouse Mystery Series. It took a while before I got to actually read this friend recommendation, but I absolutely loved it when I did!
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Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
4.5/5☕| Lily King’s Writers & Lovers points out that no matter the age, we take time to grow into our own. That despite wherever we are in life at the moment, there will always be something to figure out and to work for.
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Review: Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3) by Fonda Lee
6/5☕| Rarely have I considered the last book in a trilogy as my favorite but the conclusion to The Green Bone Saga is on a league of its own: Jade Legacy is hands down my favorite book out of this series.