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***** Summary from Goodreads: When a couple gets married, it isn’t just their lives that are thrown into chaos. For Nicholas and Nala’s wedding, there’s the mother of the bride who is forced to face her failed marriage; there mother of the groom, who . . . → Read More: Pinoy Reads: FROM THIS DAY FORWARD/Marla Miniano
A little confession: I love reading thriller and crime novels but I only read those written by male authors because a bookish friend told me that female authors of thrillers tend to write dragging stories. Since I am easily swayed by opinions like that, I also followed suit and shied . . . → Read More: GONE GIRL/Gillian Flynn
I remember seeing this book on a bargain bookstore (Booksale) and buying it because the title sounds familiar. It was only when I read the blurb and reviews on Goodreads that I learned that this is a sad book (all along, I thought it was a tragic love story of . . . → Read More: THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER/Carson McCullers
When this book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction some two years ago, many people from the book club have been raving about how this Jennifer Egan masterpiece is absolutely brilliant and different and really worth the award. I had wanted to join in on the bandwagon then but time . . . → Read More: A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD/Jennifer Egan
When this book was chosen by the book club as the group read for April, I was eager to join the read-along for a number of reasons: 1) I already have a copy which I bought from Booksale, 2) a very good friend whose book reviews I avidly am a . . . → Read More: GILEAD/Marilynne Robinson image from Goodreads
What I love about young adult fiction is that it is very easy to read and the language is easy to follow. It feels like listening to my high school self talk and rant about school, parents, friends, and of course, enemies. Hate List is one such book, . . . → Read More: HATE LIST/Jennifer Brown image from Goodreads
Every cloud has a silver lining. This is what Pat Peoples, the main protagonist, firmly believes in. He just came out from a mental institution — the bad place as he calls it — and vows never to return there again. So he works hard on improving himself . . . → Read More: THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK/Matthew Quick image from Goodreads
Summary from Goodreads: Flipped is a romance told in two voices. The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski, she flipped. The first time Bryce saw Juli, he ran. That’s pretty much the pattern for these two neighbors until the eighth grade, when, just as Juli is realizing . . . → Read More: FLIPPED/Wendelin Van Draanen image from Goodreads Hunger as a social condition is something not very new. I have seen documentaries on local TV depicting miserable conditions of hunger and poverty, and I can’t help but shed some tears every time, especially when I see children and even babies suffering from lack of food. Suffice it . . . → Read More: HUNGER/Knut Hamsun image from Goodreads
All the warm and fuzzy feels!!! Sigh. I know that the love month has already passed but I can’t help but let all the love and fluffy-ness spill over to March. Attachments is such a lovely, lovely book. Had I known about this book earlier, I could have . . . → Read More: ATTACHMENTS/Rainbow Rowell |
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