Tag: books
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August New Releases
Summer is winding down so it’s the perfect time to tell you about this month’s new releases. Get a cold drink with plenty of ice, feel the sun on your skin and get ready for a new book. Sounds perfect, right? It’s definitely the perfect time to pick up a book being the National Year…
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Review: Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
Dana and Rufus’s lives are intertwined, but they’re living in different worlds and different timelines. A very necessary read and one you’ll want to, but can’t, look away from.
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Review: Sky Full of Elephants – Cebo Campbell
A book you should absolutely go in blind for, no plot summary this time – just trust me! It’s easily one of the best books I think I’ve ever read.
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Review: Uprising – Tahmima Anam
A stunning tale of revolt and revolution. Such a brilliant and short read, so many of you will love this.
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Review – Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Pancinko is a long and sprawling literary historical novel focusing on just one family and the generations that follow. An utterly beautiful book, spanning generations, for fans of Homegoing and more historical fiction.
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Review: Small Joys – Elvin James Mensah
I don’t know what else I can add and say about this book that hasn’t already been said, but it’s easily one of my favourite books of the year. This is literary fiction at its best and is a modern day classic, implore you to read this.
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Review: Punching the Air – Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
Amal should have been somewhere else that night, but he was there and he’s now living with that decision. I devoured this and I already can’t wait this YA novel in verse read it again.
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Review: White Spaces – Elvin James Mensah
“A hymn to brotherly love and its transcendent power to heal”. Mensah has done it again, White Spaces is a masterpiece.
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Review: The Heirs – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Nothing brings a family together quite like a murder… Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is back with new murder mystery thriller and I think this is my favourite of hers yet.
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July New Releases
Summer is well and truly here so it’s the perfect time to tell you about this month’s new releases. Get a cold drink with plenty of ice, feel the sun on your skin and get ready for a new book. Sounds perfect, right?
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Review: Sister of Mine – Marie-Claire Amuah
Family secrets are uncovered on a trip to Ghana and Sika will never be the same again. I fell in love with Amuah’s writing in her debut, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, and it was a pleasure to return to that heartfelt style in Sister of Mine.
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Online Book Club Announcement
If you’re looking for bookish community, somewhere to add brilliant and diverse reads to your TBR pile and win a free book or two, then this is the place for you.
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Review: Half Lives – Krystle Zara Appiah
Krystle Zara Appiah is back with another beautifully told novel, which this time centres sisterhood and all its nuances. A slightly different pace than Rootless but a brilliant read nonetheless.
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June New Releases
As we start to cool down, it’s the perfect time to tell you about this month’s new releases. It’s definitely the perfect time to pick up a book being the National Year of Reading too, we’re ready to Go All In!
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Our Cosy Community Returns!
I’m super excited to announce that The Bookish Mindset patreon community is finally live again! I took a little at the end of last year due to some other work commitments and I’m very excited that we can come back to this beautiful community once more.
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Review: Not With a Bang – Temi Oh
An end of the world drama with beautiful family dynamics. I’m not actively drawn to end of the world media but I really enjoyed this one, Temi Oh’s writing is beautiful.
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Review: Son of the Morning – Akwaeke Emezi
Deals with the devil never tend to end well, especially when the fate of the earth is at risk. I had a lot of fun with this despite it not being a genre I’m not a fan of.
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Review: A Girl Like Her – Talia Hibbert
The town outcast and town golden retriever guy end up living next door to each other. This small town romance is bursting with heart and soul!
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Eldest Daughters as Readers
I think this this a terrible combination – the eldest daughter and reader combo. As an eldest daughter, over the years I’ve felt like some of those traits clash terribly with being a reader so let’s talk about it.
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Review: Rootless – Krystle Zara Appiah
Efe and Sam were meant to be together, they just were never there at the right time. A book that has truly broken me but I couldn’t recommend more, just stunning.
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