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Audiobook Review: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

By amodini Posted in 2023, audiobook, Blackstone Audio, books, contemporary, culture and society, social issues, women | Comments Off on Audiobook Review: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

The book does bring attention to society’s superficial nature, and how one is regarded by how well one follows the “rules of normalcy”. But other than being a rather listless commentary on that, this book achieves little else.

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Audiobook Review : End In Tears by Ruth Rendell

By amodini Posted in 2023, 4.5_star_rating, audiobook, books, crime, culture and society, favorites, must listen, must read, mystery, random_house, series, suspense | Comments Off on Audiobook Review : End In Tears by Ruth Rendell

Rating: 4.5/5 Another superb Inspector Wexford mystery!

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Audiobook Review : The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

By amodini Posted in 2.5_star_rating, 2021, audiobook, books, culture and society, feminist, historical, literature, romance, social issues, women | Comments Off on Audiobook Review : The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Age Of Innocence, almost a social commentary of the 1920s, starts off well, but grew tiresome and stretched towards the end.

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Audiobook Review : Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

By amodini Posted in 2021, 3.5_star_rating, audiobook, books, contemporary, culture and society, imaginative, penguin_books, war | Comments Off on Audiobook Review : Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Title : Exit WestAuthor : Mohsin HamidNarrator : Mohsin HamidGenre : Contemporary/FantasyPublisher : Penguin AudioListening Length : 4 hours 42 minutesRating : 3.5/5Narrator Rating : 3.5/5 Exit West is about Nadia and Saeed, two people who live in a city which is soon to be overrun by violence and unrest. When they fall in love, […]

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Audiobook Review : A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier

By amodini Posted in 2021, 4_star_rating, audiobook, books, culture and society, great narrators, literature, lovely things, penguin_books, recommended, women | Comments Off on Audiobook Review : A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier

Title : A Single Thread Author : Tracy Chevalier Narrators : Fenella Woolgar Genre : Historical Publisher : Penguin Audio Listening Length : 10 hours 51 minutes Rating : 4/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 I’ve read two of Tracy Chevalier’s books before – Remarkable Creatures about young fossil hunter Mary Anning, and Girl With a […]

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Audiobook Review : Educated by Tara Westover

By amodini Posted in 2020, 4.5_star_rating, audiobook, contemporary, culture and society, memoir, must listen, must read, non-fiction, random_house, recommended, women | Comments Off on Audiobook Review : Educated by Tara Westover

Title : Educated Author : Tara Westover Narrators : Julia Whelan Genre : Non-fiction; Memoir Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 12 hours 10 minutes Rating : 4.3/5 Narrator Rating : 4.5/5 In this book, author Tara Westover describes her childhood with her parents and her siblings on a rural farm in Idaho. […]

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Book Review : Circling The Sun by Paula McLain

By amodini Posted in 2015, 2021, 3_star_rating, books, culture and society, historical, women | Comments Off on Book Review : Circling The Sun by Paula McLain

Title : Circling The Son Author : Paula McLain Genre : Historical Publisher : Ballantine Pages : 400 Rating : 2.5/5 Beryl Clutterbuck is a rancher’s daughter in 1920s Kenya. Brought up by her father, after her mother, sick of the hard-scrabble life of the farm, ups and leaves with her younger brother, Beryl grows […]

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Wordless Wednesdays #110

By amodini Posted in 2020, audiobook, BestBooks, books, contemporary, crime, culture and society, education, favorites, lists, must read, non-fiction, recommended, thriller, Top10, wordless_wednesdays , , | Comments Off on Wordless Wednesdays #110

I tweeted this list out in response to a question on the #TSBC Book Chat, so here it is again! My Top 10 Books of 2020 – some have been reviewed here and some will appear in the following months!

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Book Review : The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

By amodini Posted in books, culture and society, historical, YA | Comments Off on Book Review : The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

Title : The Downstairs Girl Author : Stacey Lee Genre : Historical Publisher : Putnam Pages : 384 Rating : 1.5/5 The Downstairs Girl seemed interesting because of its historical time period (1890s/segregation laws) and because its protagonist is a young Chinese American girl who survives with her wits. Jo Kuan works as a lady’s […]

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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 | Comments Off on Audiobook Review : We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 […]

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