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Book 14 - 2019
Book 14: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - 367 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life ( Read more... ) -
Book 24 - 2018
Book 24: The Help by Kathryn Stockett - 451 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver ( Read more... ) -
Black History Month Reads
So far this year I've mostly been focusing on reading books that I plan to pass on to other people during Black History Month. The books I've read so far for this challenge are:
1. The Great Cake Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith (children's book)
2. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Young Adult)
3. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (non- ( Read more... ) -
Book 8 - 2018
Book 8: The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 307 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece ( Read more... ) -
Book 10 - 2017
Book 10: State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy - 436 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles ( Read more... ) -
Book 7 - 2017
Book 7: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 470 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Perfect family, perfect house, perfect life; Jane, Madeline and Celeste have it all ... or do they? They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control.
Thoughts:
When Liane Moriarty first came out, I read every book she ( Read more... ) -
Book 2 - 2017
Book 2: Alice Hartley’s Happiness by Philippa Gregory - 257 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Social mores come under bestselling author Philippa Gregory's acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal, revenge and liberation...Alice Hartley can no longer arouse the interest of her pompous husband, the adulterous ( Read more... )
