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Review: Elmet by Fiona Mozley

April 15, 2018 Amalia 0

Fiona Mozley’s Elmet was nominated for the Man Booker in 2017 and this year it got longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. A book getting so much attention in the literary world is a must read for all book-lovers […]

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Review: The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

March 1, 2018 Amalia 0

I picked this book up because it was recommended by some of my favorite BookTubers and I will tell you shortly why I think that was not the best thing for me to do. Let’s see first what got me […]

Review: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

February 9, 2018 Amalia 0

The library copy of Exit West was finally available when I happened to swing by a couple of weeks ago, so I picked it up as I remembered that it was one of the shortlisted books for the Man Booker […]

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Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

January 28, 2018 Amalia 0

This is my second book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Last year I read and loved ‘Americanah’ and when I saw ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ while browsing in the library I knew it will come home with me. I knew […]

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Review: Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

January 23, 2018 Amalia 0

‘Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire […]

5 Star Reads of 2017

January 2, 2018 Amalia 0

I am quite happy at the number of 5 star reads from my 2017 Goodreads shelf. I have in total 6, which is quite the number as I rarely give such a high rating to a book. A five-star rating […]

#NonFictionNovember2017

November 1, 2017 Amalia 0

This year too I will be participating in #NonFictionNovember2017, a month of reading nonfiction books. Exciting, huh? I certainly feel motivated to read more nonfiction books and I’ve been accumulating some nonfiction books these past months just to be able […]

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Review: Longbourn by Jo Baker

October 27, 2017 Amalia 0

Longbourn is basically a romance novel wrapped around Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (P&P). The setting is that of Downton Abbey below the stairs. It is an easy read where you basically follow the lives of the servants at Longbourn, […]

“You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbour the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies.” quote from The Power by Naomi Alderman

Review: The Power by Naomi Alderman

October 21, 2017 Amalia 0

This book won the Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction in 2017. The other shortlisted books were: Stay With Meby Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ The Dark Circleby Linda Grant The Sport of Kingsby C.E. Morgan First Loveby Gwendoline Riley Do Not Say We Have Nothingby Madeleine Thien […]

Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

October 9, 2017 Amalia 0

‘The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate […]