My rating: 4/5 stars “We are the sum of moving parts and adjustable hearts.” Solo by Kwame Alexander On the cover of this book is a quote by John Green that says “This book is special” and honestly I couldn’t agree more. When I first started reading, I thought to myself “this is an okay-ish… Continue reading Review: Solo by Kwame Alexander
My rating: 4/5 stars “We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking… Continue reading Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
My rating: 3.5/5 stars Picture Perfect tells the story of Cassie Barret, a university anthropologist who is married to one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Alex Rivers. From the outside, their relationship looks ‘picture perfect’ but in reality, their marriage is a terrible cycle of violence and denial. Trigger Warning: this book deals heavily with the… Continue reading Review: Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
My rating: 4/5 stars “Sometimes the truth is messy and difficult but it isn’t always best left. Sometimes it saves you.” Can I just say that it is impossible to read the title of this book and not automatically think of the popular song of the same name by Simple Minds, which then, for me,… Continue reading Review: Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi Mcfarlane
My rating: 2.5/5 stars Finished this one. I think it’s overhyped. There are interesting concepts backed by research described in this book. For example, I liked reading about the research surrounding how we can easily misunderstand people/misinterpret intentions due to mismatching behaviours. So for example, we think someone who is sad or guilty is meant… Continue reading Review: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
My rating: 5/5 stars It’s been a minute since I’ve been so engrossed in a book that I sacrificed sleep for it but I stayed up till 4am to finish this one and I have no regrets. In The Unhoneymooners, Olive Torres’s twin sister Ami is getting married to Dane Thomas. On the day of… Continue reading Review: The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
My rating: 4/5 stars What an eye-opening, well researched and informative read. ‘The Skin We’re In’ goes into great detail about racial discrimination and police brutality in Canada. What I found most interesting was learning about the history of Indigenous and black people in Canada (particularly Nova Scotia), from the first black settlers and the… Continue reading Review: The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
My rating: 3.5/5 stars I found NW super slow to get into but it picks up in the middle and by the end you almost forget that you wanted to give up on it when you initially started. Almost. But since I didn’t forget, I’m gonna have to give this one 3.5 stars instead of… Continue reading Review: NW by Zadie Smith
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer My rating: 5/5 stars “I think there are two kinds of feminist. The famous ones, and everyone else. Everyone else, all the people who go and do what they’re supposed to and don’t get a lot of credit for it, and don’t have someone out there everyday telling them… Continue reading November Wrap-Up 2019
The Book of Love by Fionnuala Kearney My rating: 4.5/5 stars “Life, is about choices. Some we regret. Some we’re proud of, and some will plague us forever.” Round of applause for this beautiful piece of art. This truly is a book of love, in all its beauty, in all it’s pain. It’s the love… Continue reading October Wrap-Up 2019
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