Title : When She Woke Author : Hillary Jordan Narrators : Heather Corrigan Genre : Dystopian Publisher : Highbridge Listening Length : 10 hours 47 minutes Rating : 2/5 Narrator Rating : 4.5/5 When She Woke is a dystopian novel set in a future where reproductive rights have been curtailed and abortion is a crime. […]
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Audiobook Review : When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
By amodini
Posted in 2_star_rating, 2019, audiobook, dystopian, sci-fi, women |
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Audiobook Review : In the Bleak Midwinter by by Julia Spencer-Fleming
By amodini
Posted in 2019, 4_star_rating, audiobook, books, crime, mystery, women |
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Title : In the Bleak Midwinter Author : Julia Spencer-Fleming Narrators : Suzanne Toren Genre : Mystery Publisher : Blackstone Audio Listening Length : 12 hours 58 minutes Rating : 3.7/5 Narrator Rating : 4/5 Reverend Clare Fergusson is the new priest at St. Albans in Miller’s Kill, New York. A former army pilot, Fergusson […]
Read the rest of this entry »Audiobook Review : Missing Presumed by Susie Steiner
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Posted in 2019, 4_star_rating, audiobook, books, crime, feminist, literature, mystery, random_house, recommended, review, series, women |
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Title : Missing Presumed Author : Susie Steiner Narrators : Juanita McMahon Genre : Mystery Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 12 hours 52 minutes Rating : 4/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 Missing Presumed is Book 1 in the Manon Bradshaw novels. Book 2 is out already and I hope there are many more […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
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Posted in 2018, books, contemporary, women |
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Title : What Alice Forgot Author : Liane Moriarty Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Berkeley Rating : 2/5 So, I loved, loved, loved Moriarty’s “The Husband’s Secret“. And yes, I’ve read four other Moriarty books, which were not quite as spectacular, but then one always hopes, does one not? Alice falls from her bike during […]
Read the rest of this entry »Audiobook Review : We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By amodini
Posted in 2018, 5_star_rating, audiobook, books, culture and society, feminist, lovely things, must listen, must read, random_house, recommended, women |
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Title : We should all be feminists Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Narrators : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Genre : Non-fiction Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 45 minute Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 3/5 “We should all be feminists” is adapted from Adichie’s TEDx talk on the same subject. I enjoyed this […]
Read the rest of this entry »Audiobook Review : A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By amodini
Posted in 2018, 5_star_rating, audiobook, books, culture and society, favorites, feminist, lovely things, random_house, recommended, women |
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Title : Dear Ijeawele/ A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Narrators : January LaVoy Genre : Non-fiction Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 1 hour 1 minute Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 “Dear Ijeawele” is a Adichie’s letter to a friend with suggestions on how to […]
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Posted in 2018, lovely things, poetry, south-asian, women |
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My husband sent me one of these poems via WhatsApp, and I went and looked for more. Pooja Sachdeva is quite the poetess! #1. Kis baat ki jaldi hai? #2. Haan mein characterless hon
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
By amodini
Posted in 2018, 4_star_rating, books, culture and society, dystopian, feminist, houghton_mifflin_harcourt, must read, sci-fi, women |
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Title : The Handmaid’s Tale Author : Margaret Atwood Genre : Dystopian sci-fi Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rating : 4/5 Set in a not-so-distant future, The Handmaid’s Tale is a horrifying look-see into what could happen were the baser tenets of patriarchy to take over the world. In this new world, governments, as we […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
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Posted in 2014, 4_star_rating, books, chick-lit, contemporary, women |
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Title : Big Little Lies Author : Liane Moriarty Pages : 512 Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Berkley Rating : 4/5 Big Little Lies is about Jane, Madeline and Celeste and their lives. All three have children going to Pirriwee Public School, and that is how they meet and become friends. Each of them has […]
Read the rest of this entry »Audiobook Review : The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
By amodini
Posted in 2015, 2017, 4.5_star_rating, audiobook, books, culture and society, must listen, recommended, women |
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Title : The Breadwinner Author : Deborah Ellis Narrators : Rita Wolf Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Listening Library Listening Length : 2 hours 59 minutes Rating : 4.5/5 Narrator Rating : 4/5 Parvana lives with her parents and siblings in Taliban-ruled Kabul. Parvana’s learned father ekes out a living as a reader-writer in their […]
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