Category: Book Reviews
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Review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
5/5 ☕ | A Little Life is a brilliant study of human emotions and how complex trauma can have lasting effects in one’s later life. I am a fan of books that elicit strong emotions from a reader, whether intentionally or not, and this book definitely delivered on that front.
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Romance Back-to-Back: The Happy Ever After Playlist + If I Never Met You
Romance books has been having a resurgence in my heart. Lately, I’ve listened to two random romances I’ve discovered through my audio book subscriptions and I was quite surprised that both of them delivered!
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Non Fiction Round Up Episode 1: Non Fiction Books I’ve Read Lately + Tips to Reading Non Fiction Books
I realized, after all these years, that the key is reading about topics I care about. In reading non fiction works, you need to be intentional. Mindless reading won’t work.
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Review: The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
This story is a mix of romance, adventure, murder mystery – with a hefty serving of family drama and lore on the side. It’s like an elaborate Asian soap opera peppered with paranormal elements and I loved every minute of it.
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READING DIARY: 10 Thoughts I Had While Reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
These musings are way personal than I was expecting. This is how I usually write in my journal – things that are mostly disjointed it’s hard to fashion them into a decent and coherent review. I was honestly debating whether I should post this or not here but I figured, for the sake of documenting…
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Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
Seldom do I enjoy reading memoirs but there was something special in how Michelle was able to transform her journey into something relatable on so many levels. In a way, it’s a brilliant coming-of-age story that should be read by anyone, especially young women who are trying to find their place in this world.
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Double Review: Evil Eye + Cut and Run
I am currently discovering this whole new world of audio books and with the Audible membership that I started maintaining ever since end of last year, I’ve been finding awesome reads here and there. So here are quick reviews of two of the best audio books that I’ve had the pleasure of listening: ‘Evil Eye’…
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Review: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The intrigue and suspense hanged heavy in the narrative, the atmosphere almost consistently ominous. There’s something about reading The Secret History that automatically transports you into Vermont, in it’s autumn glow, as if you as well is in on the group’s secret. If you are looking for a light read, this ain’t it.
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Blog Tour: The Sword of Kaigen (A Theonite War Story) by M.L. Wang [REVIEW]
![Blog Tour: The Sword of Kaigen (A Theonite War Story) by M.L. Wang [REVIEW]](https://pagesandcoffeecups.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/the-sword-of-kaigen-cover.jpg?w=1024)
You know that feeling when you’re completely sucked in and already so deeply invested that you don’t want the book to end? It may sound so cliché at this point, but this is literally what I felt reading this book – dreading the last chapter but still keeping at it because… what else can you…
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Review: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Reading Murakami has given me three impressions: emotional, vintage, and surreal. With a set of curious, and almost strange characters…. Murakami made, what I think, one of his most emotionally vulnerable creations.
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