Audiobook Review: A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

In A Bollywood Affair a bad boy Bollywood director and an innocent girl who’s “married” to his brother fall for each other. This engaging debut has a sweet forbidden love story, cultural flavor, and intriguing personal stories and characters. Bring on the Bollywood movie- I want to see it on the big screen! I picked […]

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Book Review

I’m very pleased to welcome Andrew to the blog today with a special guest book review. You may know him from his Movie Date posts, but he wanted to share his thoughts on a book that’s getting a lot of buzz: National Book Award finalist Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Make sure to leave him some reading […]

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My True Love Gave to Me Audiobook Review

I do enjoy a good holiday story to get me in a festive mood. And what could be better than a holiday anthology from a celebrity lineup of YA authors. My True Love Gave to Me brought a little (early) holiday joy and I’m already planning a repeat listen. The audiobook pairs some well-known narrators […]

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Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer Audiobook

Belzhar gets its name from The Bell Jar– Sylvia Plath’s 1963 book. In Meg Wolitzer’s Belzhar, a group of Vermont boarding school students are studying Plath in an exclusive English class. Their writing assignment is to keep a journal, and this is the vehicle that takes them to “Belzhar,” a place where they can revisit […]

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Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

By total coincidence this turned into non-fiction week here on the blog! This is my fourth non-fiction review of the week- how unusual for me! I would say don’t get too used to it, but I still want to read Bad Feminist and Yes Please so I guess this trend will continue for a bit. […]

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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming is author Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood memoir, as told in verse. Brown Girl Dreaming chronicles Jacqueline’s family life growing up in the 60s and 70s in South Carolina and New York, and how she got interested in writing. This book has been getting a lot of positive attention, and I have to add […]

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