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Book Review: Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Title: Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

My Ratings: 5 Star

Publisher:

Source: Times Reads

Goodreads Synopsis:

Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson’s taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.

As the book opens…

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Book Review: She Speaks by Yvette Cooper

Title: She Speaks by Yvette Cooper

My Ratings: 4 Stars

Publisher: Atlantic Books London

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

Looking at the greatest speeches of all time, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Elizabeth I and Boudica were about the only women to have dipped a toe into the pool of public oratory. But the truth is very different – countless brave and bold women…

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Book Review: Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks

Title: Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks

My Ratings: 4 Stars

Publisher: Penguin Books

Source: Times Reads

Goodreads Synopsis:

Emily just wants to keep the world away. She doesn’t want anyone to know all the ways her life is messed up. Going to anger management every Saturday, talking to strangers, was not part of the plan.

Jake just wants to keep his family together. He’s also…

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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Team Eng

Title: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Team Eng

My Ratings: 4 Stars

Publisher:

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

It’s Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she…

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Book Review: Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Title: Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

My Ratings: 5 Stars

Publisher: Bantam Press

Source: Times Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic!

The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author.

Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It’s always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the…

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Book Review: Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks

Title: Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks

My Ratings: 5 Stars

Publisher: Macmillan

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every…

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Book Review: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

Title: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

My Ratings: 5 Stars

Publisher: Macmillan

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

The story is supposed to be over.

Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after…

So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch?

What he needs, according to…

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Book Review: Me by Elton John

Title: Me by Elton John

My Rating: 4 Stars

Publisher: MacMillan

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was on his first tour of America, facing an astonished audience in his tight silver hotpants, bare legs and a…

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Book Review: Finding Chika by Mitch Albom

Title: Finding Chika by Mitch Albom

My Rating: 5 Stars

Publisher: Sphere

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis: Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in…

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Book Review: You Bring The Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

Title: You Bring The Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

My Rating: 4 Stars

Publisher: Square Fish

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story.

Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to…

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Book Review: I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn & Allison Rasky

Title: I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn & Allison Rasky

My Rating: 4 Stars

Publisher: Wednesday Books

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin’s I Hate Everyone But You is a hilarious and heartfelt debut novel about new beginnings, love and heartbreak, and ultimately the power of friendship. Dear Best Friend, I can already tell that I will hate everyone but you. Si…

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Book Review: American Royals by Katherine McGee

Title: American Royals by KatherineMcGee

My Ratings: 3.5 Stars

Publisher: Penguin

Source: Times Reads

Goodreads Synopsis:

What if America had a royal family?

When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne.

As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America’s first…

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Book Review: Frankly in Love by David Yoon

Title: Frankly in Love by David Yoon

My Ratings: 4 Stars

Publisher: Penguin

Source: Times Reads

Goodreads Synopsis:

High school senior Frank Li is a Limbo–his term for Korean-American kids who find themselves caught between their parents’ traditional expectations and their own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance–“Date Korean”–which proves complicated…

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Book Review: The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody

Title: The Chaos of Standing Still by Jessica Brody

My Ratings: 4.5 Stars

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

Ryn has one unread text message on her phone. And it’s been there for almost a year.

She hasn’t tried to read it. She can’t. She won’t. Because that one message is the last thing her best friend ever said to her before she died.

But as Ryn finds herself…

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Book Review: Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi

Title: Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi

My Rating: 3.5 Stars

Publisher : Viking

Source: Times Reads

Goodreads Synopsis:

For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience her heart desires.

But she can’t code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic…

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Book Review: The Boy With Blue Trousers by Carol Jones

Title: The Boy With Blue Trousers by Carol Jones

My Rating: 4 Stars

Publisher: Head of Zeus

Source: Pansing Books

Goodreads Synopsis:

On the goldfields of 19th century Australia, two very different girls are trying to escape their past. English governess Violet Hartley has fled from England after a scandalous liaison. Now she is angling for a rich husband and a new life. Little Cat is fleeing…

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Book Review: Beyond The Fields by Aysha Baqir

Title: Beyond the Fields by Aysha Baqir

My Ratings: 4 stars

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd

Source: Aysha Baqir

Goodreads Synopsis:

Born to a poor, landless farmer in the month of the monsoon rains, twins Zara and Tara grow up amongst the fields of wheat and cotton in a remote village in Pakistan. During an afternoon spree of games, Tara is kidnapped from the fields and…