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Written for Wattpad? A “The Friend Zone” Roast

Hello friends! In the spirit of being on vacation, I had planned to read many romance books on the beach. During my search, I came across an Abby Jimenez book on Kindle Unlimited. I had heard the acclaim for Just for the Summer and absolutely loved Yours Truly when I read it a few weeks […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with abby-jimenez, book review, book-reviews, DNF, DNFs, infertility, insenstivity, periods, pranks, Roast, slander, wattpad

I’m Back! Reviewing Pleasure Reads and Travel Update

Hello everyone! It has been a while, but I’m back better than ever, ready to review more books. As this started out as just a school project, I did not think I was going to miss writing down my thoughts on every book but I have. Normally, I don’t write reviews for the books I […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with australia, book-reviews, brisbane, cozy, elle-kennedy, fantasy, fearies, hockey, laugh, live, love, romance, romantasy, slay, Travel, winter

The Big End of Semester Wrap Up – Goodbye:(

It’s here! The last blog post of the semester! Thank you, dear reader, for reading all of my little blog posts. I hope you enjoyed my analysis and shared some similar thoughts, or thought differently about sections after reading my thoughts. I am honestly going to miss this blog, it was very fun to design […]

Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with book, book review, book-blog, book-reviews, books, class, girlhood, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, love, memory, misogyny, Money to Burn, My brilliant friend, narrative, novel, reading, the end, Time of the Doves

Little Women – Jo vs. Amy but make it Elena vs. Lila

The book that I chose to read this week was “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante. I think I chose this book in the beginning of the semester because it sounded familiar and now I know why – there’s a TV Show adaptation on Crave! Never watched it but now I might have to as […]

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‘We Were Girls Together’; A Review of My Brilliant Friend

Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older […]

Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with book review, book-reviews, books, childhood, family, fiction, friendship, Italy, literature, love, money, socioeconomic status

Maybe death is a good thing? Death with Interruptions

This book is definitely my favourite read so far in the semester, as this type of read and genre is right up my alley. I loved how basically almost instantly we were raised with questions about the nature of human existence and our relationship as humans with morality. Basically, the “removal of death” in the […]

Posted in Blogs, Saramago | Tagged with book review, book-reviews, books, Death with Interruptions

DEATH SHOULD BE SPELLED WITH A SMALL “d”?!!!!!

Death with interruptions is a story that is “torn between the hope of living forever and the fear of never dying”.(pg74). The novel is divided into two halves. The novel’s first part begins with the shocking news of no death recorded in an unnamed city on New Year as soon as the clock strikes 12. […]

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Life with No Death? (Or should I say death)

showing how fragile our system is. One thing goes awry, and everything comes toppling down. Albeit, no one dying anymore is not something we could have planned for, but it is something the government and people now have to figure out. Saramago questions our societal systems by exploring their improbability. As you may have guessed, […]

Posted in Blogs, Saramago | Tagged with agency, book review, book-reviews, books, death, family, letters, love, religion, violet

A book about death, but without interruptions 

Let me to get right into this, the book seemed to be split into two parts, with separate protagonists in each: society in the first section and death in the second. The author uses long, twisted sentences without punctuation (hence, the title). Reading this was a little difficult for me at times. Because of the […]

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Beyond the Robbery – Money to Burn

While reading this book, I had to continuously remind myself that this is based on a true story as I would always seem to forget. This book, which was about an armed gang who stole 7 million Argentine pesos and escaped from Buenos Aires where the whole robbery took place and fled to Montevideo, Uruguay […]

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