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My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – Review

Book: My Sister's KeeperAuthor: Jodi PicoultYear: 2004Bookhad Rating: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ *** "The thing is, I didn’t want to be this person anymore. I didn’t want to be the girl who was sick, who made her sister go to court, who forced her family to live like everything was always about dying." *** If there... Continue Reading →

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The Inconceivable Idea of the Sun – Mini Review

Book: The Inconceivable Idea of the SunAuthor: Anil MenonYear: 2022Bookhad Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️ As a firm believer in the idea that people come to books when they are ready for them, I’ve serendipitously finished reading Anil’s book, even though I bought it in 2022 when it was published.  I don’t think I would have been able... Continue Reading →

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Tress of the Emerald Sea – Mini Review

Book: Tress of the Emerald SeaAuthor: Brandon SandersonYear: 2023Bookhad Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Beyond that, memories have a way of changing on us. Souring or sweetening over time—like a brew we drink, then recreate later by taste, only getting the ingredients mostly right. You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become. --... Continue Reading →

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Monk and Robot Duology – Review

Book: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (#1) & A Prayer for Crown Shy (#2)Author: Becky ChambersYear: 2021 & 2022 (respectively)Booked Rating: ❤️❤️❤️ When I read Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer outing A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet a nagging thought never left me. Why, I wondered, did science fiction set thousands of years into the... Continue Reading →

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O — Mini Review

Book: OAuthor: Zeina Hashem BeckYear: 2022Bookhad Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ “…allowed love to become so easy.” — ZHB One of my important learnings from my book review writing days is that a book does not exist in a silo. A book is an echo and it reverberates through the time it was written in. This is also... Continue Reading →

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The Carol of The Reactors – Review

Book: The Carol of The ReactorsAuthor: Vishal SuchakYear: 2019Bookhad Rating: ♥♥♥ It has been a long long time since we put something up. By long we mean more than two years ago and we were itching to restart and get back into the book reviewing business.  The pandemic gave the world an excuse to us... Continue Reading →

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Demons in my Mind – Review

Book: Demons in my Mind Author: Aashish Gupta Year: 2017 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ We took a long break from our regular reviewing and, after a year, we think it's time to get back to business.   I would like to begin the year of with one of the three Indian writers we read this year.... Continue Reading →

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Book List 2017

Psychoanalyst Adam Philips, in his book 'In Praise of Missing Out' writes at length about what we, in our times, call the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). A pithy yet acutely diagnosed uneasiness of our times exacerbated by the social media and the glorious lives we're all trying to live. Yet we agree that routine... Continue Reading →

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