Tag: bookrecommendation
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Books, Briefly: How to Sell a Haunted House
“Books, Briefly” is featuring a spooky book today… Title: How to Sell a Haunted House Author: Grady Hendrix READ IF YOU LIKE: scary stories about hauntings, Halloween-vibes, unrealistic characters mixed with realistic ones, reading about sibling relationships MOOD: creepy, morbidly goofy Likes Dislikes How the author inserted comedic relief to offset things that were creepy…
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The Reformatory: A Hauntingly Impactful Novel
“Florida’s soil is soaked with so much blood, it’s a wonder the droplets don’t seep between your toes with every step, Mama used to say.” The Reformatory – Tananarive Due My Rating In Summary of The Reformatory “Gracetown, FloridaJune 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys,…
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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow Plants Itself in Readers’ Hearts
“This is the land of your father, and his father before him. Your history is embedded in this soil. No country in the world will love you as yours does.” As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow – Zoulfa Katouh My Rating In Summary of As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow “Salama Kassab was…
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Books, Briefly: On Juneteenth
“Books, Briefly” is featuring non-fiction today… Title: On Juneteenth Author: Annette Gordon-Reed READ IF YOU LIKE: essay collections, American history & issues, biographies, informative reads MOOD: serious and informational Likes Dislikes Individual essay chapters read quickly Lacking history about Juneteenth, unlike what the title suggests Interesting, historical information about the end of slavery and Texas…
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Adelaide – A Fresh Literary Look at Relationships
“There are parts of our hearts we give away. Not lend, but sacrifice entirely. And there are some people to whom we give these pieces, knowing we’ll never really get them back.” Adelaide – Adelaide Wheeler My Rating In Summary of Adelaide “For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes…
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Look Out for: The Connellys of County Down
My Rating In Summary of The Connellys of County Down “When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won’t be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with her siblings, who are both busy…
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Tomorrow, & Tomorrow, & Tomorrow – Read Today
“‘What is a game?’ Marx said. ‘It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.’” Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin My Rating In Summary of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,…
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Books, Briefly: Putin’s Russia
“Books, Briefly” is featuring a graphic novel today… Title: Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator Author: Darryl Cunningham READ IF YOU LIKE: graphic novels, world politics and issues, biographies, informative reads MOOD: serious and informational Likes Dislikes Makes Putin’s life and Russian/Eastern European political history manageable to consume (fast read!) Lack of a key…
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Musings Over The Magnolia Palace
“The rich think they’re protected, that they have magical powers, when in fact they’re only mortals, like the rest of us.” The Magnolia Palace – Fiona Davis My Rating In Summary of The Magnolia Palace “Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen…
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Worth the Hype
“What’s wrong with me? … I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extra curricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it’s not ambition, not entirely. It’s fear.” A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder –…
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