Tag: Book Review

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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Habibi – In Pictures

Book: Habibi Author: Craig Thompson Year: 2011 Bookhad Rating: -- Departing from the usual review format, this post will not delve into the merits and pitfalls of reading a novel and its larger social context. Instead, we're going to give you a series of reasons to decide for yourself if you want to read this massive... Continue Reading →

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The Spice Box Letters – Review

Book: The Spice Box Letters Author: Eve Makis Year: 2015 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥  When Eve Makis was writing The Spice Box Letters, her literary agent left her because the agent believed, "No one cares about the Armenian genocide." It's rather ironic the scant storytelling of the Armenian genocide in popular literature given that it is... Continue Reading →

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Dept. of Speculation – Review

Book: Dept. of Speculation Author: Jenny Offill Year: 2014 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ That one was so beautiful I used to watch him sleep. If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved... Continue Reading →

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