By Bonnie Garmus Pages: 400Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Feminism, ContemporaryRating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lessons in Chemistry was a book I placed on my reading list back in 2022. My sister loaned me this book back around Easter. (We haven’t seen each other in a while.) It has been sitting on my TBR since then (hey I have …
By Tillie Cole Pages: 316Genre: Chick-Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Young AdultRating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ On the 4th of January 2020, I bought three books: I read Indistractable by Nir Eyal, as my productivity reboot for the year. (I always seem to read a non-fiction book about productivity at the start of the year). Six of Crows, I had to …
By Colleen Coleman Pages: 264Genre: Chick-Lit, Romance, ContemporaryRating: ⭐⭐⭐ The worst day of Lily Buckley’s life was being jilted at the altar by her fiance Adam when he told her he didn’t want to marry her and was in love with her best friend. Ouch. Since then Lily has been living on auto piolet. Working a …
By Nina Kenwood Pages: 320Genre: Young Adult, New Adult, Rom-ComRating: ⭐⭐⭐¾ This book is a loaner from my sister, who I believe got it as a blind date book from the local bookstore. If I were to describe this book in three words it would be Melbourne, Questioner, First Love. That first love could also be, …
Setting an ambitious goal of reading 100 books for 2022 was a big task. From classics to trilogies, to retellings to LGBTQIA+ nothing was off limits. There were some surprising reads, but also some duds. Never discredit the average book. There is nothing wrong with average. It’s the average books that make you appreciate the …
By Adam Silvera Pages: Hardcover 560, Paperback 368, Audiobook 6 hours.Mi Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a prequel to They Both Die at the End. Set ten years prior in 2010, tells the story of Valentino and Orion. Death-Cast has just launched. Valentino has just moved to New York, and his twin sister Scarlett is making …
By Rachel GivneyPaperback: 432 pagesPublished: June 1st, 2021 by Penguin Random House AustraliaGenre: Historial fictionMi Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐& 3/4 Stars Set in Poland on the brink of the Second World War, 16-year-old Marie’s primary concern is the disappearance of her mother fifteen years prior. Marie’s father Dominik a well-respected and innovative doctor at the local hospital is silent …
By Taylor Jenkins-Reid 385 pages, PaperbackFirst published June 13, 2017Mi Rating: 4.25 Stars Evelyn Hugo is glamorous. (Think Elizabeth Taylor glamorous). When she is ready to tell all about her life, she specifically chooses Monique Grant of Vivant (let’s just say Vogue) magazine. Monique questions why her. Her life is in shambles, her husband has …
By Taylor Jenkins Reid 355 pages, HardcoverFirst published March 5, 2019Mi Rating: 3 Stars My daughter really wanted to get me a book for my birthday. She knows I like to read, and it has also rubbed off on her. We were in a boutique bookstore in Hamilton, and my husband was “find something tell …
By Fiona Lucas Paperback: 432Rating: 3.5 stars Three years ago, the love of Anna’s life Spencer was tragically killed in an accident while going to the corner shop to get milk. For the last three years, Anna has really been existing. Everyone keeps telling her to move on, but how can she when she lost …
