Review: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
So here we are, meeting five people, across different chapters, all having their individual “short story” of sorts beginning in the library.
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Review: The Spectacular, by Fiona Davis
This book has a bit of everything: both fact and fiction, a fully developed story with suspense on the side and multiple interesting themes.
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Review: Learning America by Luma Mufleh
We chose Learning America for our book of the month, it’s sure to make you more thoughtful about the refugee crisis. Check out our review.
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Review: Contempt by Michael Cordell
It’s been a while since a book was this captivating and held me for so long, I read it in two sittings. Whenever you think you know what it going on, it’s going in a different direction. Just like in prison, you can’t trust anyone – or any rules and it is never certain who will survive.
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Review: Across the Winding River
After more than 50s years, Beth and her 90-year-old father open a box of mementos from his time fighting in World War Two. Among those is a photo of her father Max with a woman.
Told from the perspective of Beth, of Max while he was a medic at the front, and of a young German flight captain working in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s…
Book Review – The Switch, by Beth O’Leary
A 79-year-old takes on busy London life while a millennial move to a quiet little village and busies herself helping the elderly residents and planning the May Day celebration.
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Review: The Bright Side of Going Dark by Kelly Harms
This book may have been written before the world changed, but it comes at the perfect time. Disguised as a story about social media, it makes us analyse our family relationships, our life and our anxieties.
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Book Review: The Other Family by Loretta Nyhan
When your child is sick, you’d do anything to help them. Even if family is complicated. Find out more about The Other Family in our review.
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Book review: Yeah. No. Not Happening, by Karen Karbo
Yeah. No. Not Happening is about how to say no to all the self-improvement ideas you know, deep down, you don’t need, accepting your flawed self, and saying yes to what makes you happy. The one self-help book you should really read right now
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Review: How to Save the World for Free
Feeling like you want to do your bit in the world? There’s lots of ways you can help the environmental issue with this book, in the everyday. Find out more.
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Review: Better off Bald
Our book of the month for December is something we that’ll make you think twice. Its a hard read, especially at Christmas, but the message is important.
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Review: What We’re Told Not To Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway)
We review Nimko Ali’s What We’re Told Not To Talk About- periods, orgasms, pregnancy and menopause. Read about the shared experience. It’s an eye-opener.
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