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Colleen Hoover Colleen Hoover was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023, solidifying her effect on the book community. She has garnered a lot of popularity on social media within communities like “Booktok” and “Bookstagram” with her YA romance novels. Her storytelling is very
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I wanted to look back on this standalone book by Holly Jackson because of her new novel, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, that was recently released in the US and the UK. Since I’ve enjoyed Jackson’s previous work I hope to be able to read this new novel
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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” - Charles Dickens The Life of Charles Dickens The novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England 1812. His youth was filled with unexpected obstacles and bizarre characters, which later inspired multiple of his novels. His stories
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One Moment by Becky Hunter is a bittersweet story about friendship, love and grief. It explores the aftermath of a loved one's death. The novel recognises that one moment can have a butterfly effect. The world is deeply interconnected and even the smallest of actions and decisions can
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“I talk to God but the sky is empty.” - Sylvia Plath The Life of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath's only novel The Bell Jar is a deserved classic. Plath was an accomplished poet and is most famed for her advances in the genre of confessional poetry. At a
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The Midnight Library is about a 35-year-old woman who decides to take her own life due to her dissatisfaction with past decisions. She finds that her life is dull and does not have the strength to amend it. Matt Haig, the author, does a good job of conveying Nora'
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You have probably heard of this story before: a crew assembles, gets miniaturized and injected into a scientist's body to save his life. This is the plot of Fantastic Voyage and since its release in 1966, it has been heavily popularized. It has inspired episodes from the Simpsons
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Set in the famous Heartstopper series universe called the Osemanverse, Solitaire is about one Tori Springs. We follow her as she starts to understand herself and make a new friend while trying to figure out the culprit behind "Solitaire". Pranks are plaguing the school, "Higges" by
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This story starts with a journalist called Monique Grant. She’s a middle aged, biracial white and African American woman and soon-to-be divorcee. Monique is not a well-known journalist and is going through a rough patch. Therefore, everyone is shocked when Evelyn Hugo, a 1950s Hollywood icon, wants her for
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Below Stairs is a memoir written by Margaret Powell where she brings forth her own experiences as a domestic servant in early 20th-century England. This book has gone on to inspire television shows such as Upstairs, Downstairs and Downtown Abbey. Powell has a very interesting way of writing, I would
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The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes is the prequel of the famous book and film series ‘The Hunger Games’. It takes a deep dive into the story of future president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow. He is the only boy of the great house of Snow, a powerful family that was
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We Were Liars follows the story of a wealthy but broken family, known as the Sinclairs. Candance, our narrator, is the eldest grandchild of the Sinclairs. “The Sinclairs are athletic, tall and handsome. We are old-money Democrats. Our smiles are wide, our chins square, and our tennis serves aggressive.” -
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The story takes place in 1939, Germany is on the verge of war. A nine-year-old German girl, Liesel Meminger, is on a train with her mother and younger brother, heading towards a town in southern Germany. Her father has been detained by the government for being a communist, forcing him