Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz (by Heather Morris)

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My Rating:   4.5 stars This was an incredible story, one that was extremely heartbreaking yet also hopeful and inspiring.  Based o...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Review: What Alice Forgot (by Liane Moriarty)

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My rating: 4 stars A few weeks ago, I was on a trip and had an unexpected layover at the airport for a few hours.  Unfortunately, I d...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Review: Back Talk (by Danielle Lazarin)

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My Rating: 3 stars In general, I’ve never really been a fan of the short story genre.  When reading fiction, I prefer either nove...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Review: Educated: A Memoir (by Tara Westover)

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My Rating:  4.5 stars Wow, what a story!  This was one of the most fascinating memoirs I've ever read and one of the most well...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Review: White Houses (by Amy Bloom)

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My rating: 3 stars I seem to be the outlier here but this book, which I was initially excited to read, ended up falling a littl...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Review: The Great Alone (by Kristin Hannah)

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My Rating: 5 stars Set in Alaska in the 1970s, this wonderfully atmospheric story is about the Allbright family -- Ernt and Cora, and ...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Review: Next Year in Havana (by Chanel Cleeton)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars I was enamored with this book from the very first page and found it very difficult to put down after I st...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Review: The Promise Between Us (by Barbara Claypole White)

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My Rating: 4 stars The Promise Between Us  is the second book about mental illness that I've read so far this year and while I fee...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Review: Little Reunions (by Eileen Chang, translated by Martin Mertz & Jane Weizhan Pan)

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 My Rating: 3.5 stars Let me start off by saying that Eileen Chang is one of my favorite Chinese authors.  I was an Asian Studi...