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I read To Kill a Mockingbird as a teen. For the longest time, I continued to count it in my favourites without actually remembering its finer nuances. You know how that happens, right? You remember you loved a book but you forget the exact bits that made you like it that much. Over the years, …
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A path-breaking young adult gay romance that'll warm your heart.
Persuasion has all things typical of an Austen novel; long walks in the countryside, carriage rides and conversations as also balls and dancing. These are the reasons why I keep going back to Austen.
Have you read Pride and Prejudice? In all likelihood you have. And if you haven’t it’s probably because Austen doesn’t work for you. Don’t judge me if I judge you just a little bit here and wonder: Who ARE you? Coming back to the book I really want to talk about: The Other Bennet Sister …
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Book: DraculaAuthor: Bram Stoker I have a dread of horror and I consciously stay away from it. But then Dracula got chosen as the book of the month by a (fabulous, classic-reading) book club I’m part of. And I decided perhaps it was time to give it a go. I really am a fan of …
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Book: The Bluest EyeAuthor: Toni Morrison 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove believes she’s ugly. And nothing can change that. Nothing at all. Unless … unless she could trade in her eyes for beautiful blue ones. Now if she had those blue eyes, things would be different; because then, everyone would love her. The boys at school would …
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When Emira is wrongly accused of kidnapping her baby=sitting charge her relationship with the child's mother takes a rather strange turn. A wonderfully layered book on race and class and privelege by Kiley Reid.
I watched George Floyd die. It was barely a surprise to be reminded of the existence of racism, I knew that, already. However, that it can be so brutal, so cruel and so clearly played out that someone could make a video, yet not be able to stop it - that was the horror of …
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The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes is a beautifully written book about pack-horse librarians -a group of women who travelled long distances on horseback, carrying with them books for people in isolated houses on the hills.
All the Bright Places is a book that tackles the issue of mental health among young adults with depth and subtlety.
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