Wake Up Missing by Kate Messner My rating: 3/5 stars When Cat falls out of a treehouse, she suffers a serious concussion which lands her in the most advanced brain treatment centre in the country. There, she meets four other kids: Ben, Quentin, Sarah and Trent. Soon after arriving at the centre, Cat becomes… Continue reading November Wrap-Up 2018
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer My rating: 4/5 stars “And didn’t it always go like that — body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure… Continue reading October Wrap-Up 2018
Another month of reading only two books and oddly enough, I’m okay with that. In Some Other World, Maybe by Shari Goldhagen My rating: 4.5/5 stars You ever think about all the people you’ve ever met? The friends you’ve had. Past romantic relationships. Career decisions. The way people come in and out of our lives.… Continue reading September Wrap-Up 2018
It appears I only read 2 books throughout the entire month of August. Who am I and what I have done with my real self ? Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi My rating: 4.5/5 stars “We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So,… Continue reading August Wrap-Up 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion My rating: 3.5/5 stars “It is the blight man was born for. We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses… Continue reading July Wrap-Up 2018
Joyful by Robert Hillman My rating: 3/5 stars “If one thing is meant to be, then surely all things are meant to be and there is nothing to be done about anything.” I picked this book out at random. Like, literally walked down one (fiction) aisle of my library, eyes closed, stretched out my… Continue reading June Wrap-Up 2018
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman My rating: 4/5 stars “If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want… Continue reading May Wrap-Up 2018
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin My rating: 4.5/5 stars “Life isn’t about defying death. It’s also about defying yourself, about insisting on transformation. As long as you can transform, my friends, you cannot die.” This is a book about death but it’s also a book about life. Simon, Klara, Daniel & Varya are siblings. As… Continue reading April Wrap-Up 2018
I read 5 books in March, 2 of which cost me so many hours of sleep, but was totally worth it. Next by Michael Chrichton My rating: 3/5 stars Dawn of the Planet of the Apes meets Black Mirror. That’s how I would describe this book. If you like stories that have to do with… Continue reading March Wrap-Up 2018
February was a slow reading month for me but I thoroughly enjoyed everything that I read 🙂 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas My rating: 4.5/5 stars “Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.” What a book. Honestly, I don’t know… Continue reading February Wrap-Up 2018
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