Tag: book review
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Review: MiJa | Mark Atkinson
Originally published on Reedsy Discovery Become a reviewer for Reedsy through my affiliate link Upon reading the synopsis I knew Atkinson’s MiJa had the potential to be reminiscent of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko – a story about a Korean family who emigrate to Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea – with the promise of capturing the experience of…
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Review: Solotramp | Eleanor Addy Binnings
Originally published on Reedsy Discovery Become a reviewer for Reedsy through my affiliate link Set in Colorado in the 1970s, Micky’s story takes place in the whirlwind of the US at war with Vietnam, looking for a missing father, and hiding from an estranged mother. Micky runs away for the third time and so the…
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Top Ten Books / 2022
1. Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile, François Sagan Sagan’s two short stories, written in the 1950s, are fantastic explorations of teenage love & lust, discovering sex and how close death is to all of these feelings. Sagan writes with a sharp wit and heady description and her twists are yet to leave me! 2.…
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