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Continue reading →: Coffee Days Whiskey Nights by Cyrus Parker
Release Date: September 7th, 2020 Rating: ★★★ Coffee Days Whiskey Nights has a very unique concept in that on all the pages on the left side you have the “coffee days” which typically contain the more hopeful, happy poems and the “whiskey nights” which are the more insecure, unhappy poems.…
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Continue reading →: Charming Falls Apart by Angela TerryRelease Date: August 4th, 2020 Rating: ★★★★★ This is what happens when you’re crossing all of life’s t’s and dotting its i’s and then everything you thought was put together falls apart. Allison has everything, a well paying job that she’s good at, a fiance, a few best friends doubling…
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Continue reading →: No Offense by Meg Cabot
Release Date: August 11th, 2020 Rating: ★ Little Bridge is one of the smallest islands in the Florida Keys. It’s also seen a strange spike in crime- which just so happens to bring the sheriff and children’s librarian together on more than one occasion when Molly keeps finding crime scenes.…
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Continue reading →: In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Rating: ★★★★ In Watermelon Sugar is bizarre, unique, and amazing. This book is written by a poet and you can feel that as you read; it feels like a form of free-verse, abstract poetry. The story itself is 138 pages, many of these pages only being half filled as you’re…
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Continue reading →: The Stationery Shop by Marjan KamaliRating: ★★★★★ I have so many feelings about this book, but they are all important. Coming from someone who isn’t that enamored with most romance novels, this was a beautiful love story. The book tells the story of two seventeen-year-olds in 1953 Iran who fall in love over the summer…
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Continue reading →: The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan HowardRating: ★★★★ Release Date: August 20th, 2020 Jim is a department store security guard with an unhappy marriage and a condescending boss younger than him. He used to be a member of the Gardaí. He also happens to secretly be The Nothing Man, Cork’s very own serial killer at large…
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Continue reading →: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonRating: ★★★★★ What starts off as a seemingly lighthearted tale of an autistic boy solving a mystery like Sherlock Holmes would, quickly snowballs into more deep and personal subjects. Family relations and the way children see them as well as react to them are very important, but there is also the…
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Continue reading →: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidRating: ★★★★★ I was so pleasantly surprised by Daisy Jones & The Six. I thought this would just be a quick, light read that follows the trope you would think it would when thinking of a girl joining a rock band, but it was so much more (and better) than…
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Continue reading →: A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen JukesRating: ★★★ Helen Jukes is feeling disconnected and stuck in the day-to-day of a monotonous job- something needs to give. In an effort to make her new home and garden more lively, as well as to bring some purpose back into her life, Helen decides to start beekeeping. This book…
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Continue reading →: In the Dark, Soft Earth by Frank WatsonRating: ★★★ In the Dark, Soft Earth starts strong, the first book in this poetry collection is absolutely captivating. My favorite section in this book thematically, as it uses nature to create beautiful imagery. Watson is able to use nature to his advantage when it comes to painting a picture…
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