Tag: books
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Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whiskey a Go Go. Her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Between life and death, there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices. In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with…
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The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
The story is about a dysfunctional family who lived in The Dutch House. Cyril Conroy gets rich, buys the house, and surprises his wife Elna, who does like the enormous house. She leaves her family to go to India to help the poor. Maeve gets sick with diabetes after Elna left her, and although she…
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28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
When Mallory Blessing’s son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he’s not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It’s the late spring of 2020 and Jake’s wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in…
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Adultery by Paulo Coelho
I was a reader of Paulo Coelho’s book lightyears ago, but after reading many things about witchery in his books, I stopped.
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking…
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Three Books Worth My Sleepless Nights
I love sleeping. But what I love more, are books that keep me awake; it means they are that good for me to fight the urge to sleep. These three books here kept me awake for weeks (or months) and here are my thoughts on them.
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Three In A Row
The reading bug has gotten into me lately and I like this kind of addiction where I could not sleep without reading. Here are the recent books I’ve read and I found one that is quite interesting – Being Miss Nobody.
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Voyager and Other Fictions: The Collected Stories of Jose Dalisay
If there will come a time that I would need to sell my books and leave only a few with me, Jose Dalisay’s Voyager and Other Fictions is definitely going to stay on my shelf and here’s why:
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Lakompake by Senyora
From fake social media account to National Bookstore’s Best Selling Book to another book in collaboration with Nancy Binay, Senyora is just unbelievable.
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2 Main Takeaways from Lisa See’s Island of Sea Women
Island of Sea Women is the story of Young-Sook and Mi-ja, set in a Japanese Occupied Jeju Island of Korea. Young-Sook and Mi-ja came from different backgrounds but they became inseparable until certain circumstances broke them apart.
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Sanfa & Moosa – Loabinfaru by Mustafa Lutfi
Loabinfaru is a tragic story of the star-crossed lovers – Sanfa, the prettiest girl in Ihuvanfushi Island* (Northernmost part of the Maldives) and Moosa, the most eligible bachelor in Addu Atoll (Southernmost part of the Maldives).
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