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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry – Review

Book: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Author: Gabrielle Zevin Year: 2014 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ "A place is no place without a bookstore." A. J. Fikry owns a purple Victorian cottage on Alice Island. A widower who lives mostly on frozen foods and is unable to forget his wife Nic who died in a car... Continue Reading →

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The Call of Cthulhu – Review

Book: The Call of Cthulhu Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft Year: 1928 Bookhad Rating:  Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming) This slim story was a part of my reading list for a large part of the previous 2 and a half years. I was aware of the near mythical proportions of... Continue Reading →

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Trespassing – Review

Book: Trespassing Author: Uzma Aslam Khan Year: 2005 Bookhad Rating:  We've all read The Kite Runner, even those of us who haven't. And suddenly, we all knew everything that was enough to finally place Afghanistan on our mental maps. The book and America have helped place the country in a space where stereotypes are broken and made. Make... Continue Reading →

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Daughter of Fortune – Review

Book: Daughter of Fortune Author: Isabel Allende Year: 1999 Bookhad Rating:  Whatever I knew about Isabel Allende was from her TED talk titled Tales of Passion. It's one of the six TED talks bundled under the category 'How to tell a story'. Needless to say, it's a fantastic talk, and she's funny in equal measure. If nothing else,... Continue Reading →

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Persepolis – Review

Book: Persepolis Author: Marjane Satrapi Year: 2000 Bookhad Rating:  This autobiographical, intelligent, witty, and honest graphic novel paints a picture of Marjane's (fondly called Marji) life in Iran after the Shah was overthrown and at the advent of the Islamic revolution. Marji - an extrovert girl finds her world turned upside down when her French school... Continue Reading →

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From the Holy Mountain – Review

Book: From the Holy Mountain Author: William Dalrymple Year: 1997 Bookhad Rating:  The Convent of Seidnaya, Syria, 11th September 1994 When the travel writer Colin Thubron visited the convent in 1966, he claimed to have witnessed a miracle: to have seen the face of the icon of Notre Dame de Seidnaya stream with tears. In the same... Continue Reading →

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Review

Name: One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Year: 1962 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤ How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?... The temperature out there was -27; Shukhov’s temperature was +37. The fight was on. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is in prison and the novel traces one day of... Continue Reading →

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The Grapes of Wrath – Review

Name: The Grapes of Wrath Author: John Steinbeck Year: 1939 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Finally, I have finished reading The Grapes of Wrath. It was my second Steinbeck book after Of Mice and Men. For anyone who has been following this blog, you would know that I have been reading this book for over four months now. It took... Continue Reading →

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