Tag: bookshops
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Review – The Principle of Moments – Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
Asha and Obi are part of something much bigger than either of them could have dreamed, they just don’t know it yet. This is the beginning of an epic space saga and I need the next instalment yesterday.
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Review – Jaded – Ela Lee
Jade has everything she’s wanted and worked hard for, but a work encounter threatens to uproot all of that. A dark but brilliantly written read, I couldn’t put it down.
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Review – Yellowface – Rebecca F. Kuang
June Hayward stole Athena Liu’s manuscript after her shock death and is publishing it herself, she finally feels like she’s getting everything she wanted.. until people start asking questions. A brilliant book to spark conversation, it is literary genius.
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Review – Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Set in a dystopian world where prisoners can opt into a winner goes free, whoever kills wins style competition, Loretta Thurwar is close to freedom, but how far can she go?
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Review: Bellies – Nicola Dinan
Tom and Ming meet during their university years but post university reality sets in for them and hits hard as their relationship is put to the test. This is such beautiful and delicate story telling and I’m blown away.
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Books for the Girls – Feminine Rage
Books for the girls is inspired by Monika Radojevic’s A beautiful lack of consequence, which looks at the experience of womanhood through many lenses and was just brilliant. Up next is ne of my favourite themes: feminine rage, but I’m expanding it slightly.
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Books for the Girls – Books to Break You
Books for the girls is inspired by Monika Radojevic’s A beautiful lack of consequence, which looks at the experience of womanhood through many lenses and was just brilliant. Up first is books that will break you (and maybe your heart too) but will put you back together again.
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Review – Against the Loveless World – Susan Abulhawa
Imprisoned and waiting to hear from one person, Nahr tells her story of occupied Palestine and resistance. Harrowing and hard-hitting, this book packs a punch.
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Review: How to Say Babylon – Safiya Sinclair
Following poet and author Safiya Sinclair, How To Say Babylon is her memoir of a life growing up Jamaican in a Rastafarian household. “You were born too sensitive for this world”
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Let’s Talk About Independent Bookshops
Have you ever wondered why myself and others end up banging on about supporting independent bookshops over some of the giants? Well you’re in luck. Scroll through and let’s talk.
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Bookshop Visit – The New Bookshop, Cockermouth
Having spent a lot of my childhood in the Lake District, I’m totally desensitised to the name of the town this next bookshop tour takes us to, so we’ll move swiftly on, but I’m excited to introduce a bookshop I remember fondly from my childhood: The New Bookshop.
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Review: Babel – R. F. Kuang
Babel is an intense novel but that shouldn’t put you off, it’s deep, layered and clever in it’s execution. It’s a truly fascinating novel and I would definitely recommend it.
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Let’s Talk About Buying Your Proofs
Every now and then bookstagrammers, me included, will talk about buying the finished copy of any proofs you get. It’s an important topic and it’s one that I’ve learnt on my bookish journey, so let’s talk about it.
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Reading Habits I’m Not Stressing About This Year
Reflecting back on last year’s reading habit’s and practices I found that some needed a switch up and others just needed to removed altogether. Maybe you found the same and the hobby you once loved was feeling like a stress or a chore? I get it.
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Review: Say You’ll Be My Jaan – Naina Kumar
Fake dating to get your parents to leave you alone in their plans for you? Sounds easy! And anyway, any man that tries to calm a situation with ice cream is a going to be a winner in my book.
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Let’s Talk About Audiobooks
Every now and then audiobooks will feature in “controversial” conversations. But it’s really not that complicated at all, so let’s talk about it.
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Review: Highly Suspicous and Unfairly Cute – Talia Hibbert
Academic rivals sign up for the same extra curriculum outdoor adventure for extra credit, but they get a lot more than they bargain for. In typical Hibbert fashion, this is another beautiful romance to add to her repertoire.
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