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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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Audiobook Review : A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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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Book Review : The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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 […]

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Audiobook Review : The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

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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Audiobook Review : Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Title : Eleanor and Park Author : Rainbow Rowell Narrators : Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra Genre : Romance Publisher : Listening Library Listening Length : 8 hours 56 minutes Rating : 3.5/5 Narrator Rating : 4.5/5 I don’t think I’m the target audience for this book (YA, I’d assume) because this book’s tale is a […]

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Audiobook Review : The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

[amazon_link id=”B002EXUV32″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Remains of The Day Author : Kazuo Ishiguro Narrator : Simon Prebble Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Tantor Audio Listening Length : 8 hours 13 minutes Rating : 5/5 Narrator Rating : 5/5 This is one of those books that you come across every once in a […]

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Audiobook Review : The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

[amazon_link id=”1594633118″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Paying Guests Author : Sarah Waters Narrator : Juliet Stevenson Genre : Historical Publisher : Penguin Audio Listening Length : 21 hours 28 minutes Rating : 4.5/5 It is the 1920s and Frances Wray and her mother live in genteel poverty in their South London home. Their […]

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Audiobook Review : The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

[amazon_link id=”1594631433″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Chaperone Author : Laura Moriarty Narrator : Elizabeth McGovern Genre : Historical Publisher : Blackstone Audio Listening Length : 13 hours 18 minutes Rating : 4.5/5 I must confess that this book caught my attention because I thought the author was Liane Moriarty. I realized my mistake […]

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Audiobook Review : Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

[amazon_link id=”0812981227″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Author : Helen Simonson Narrator : Peter Altschuler Genre : Romance Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 13 hours 8 minutes Rating : 4.5/5 I came upon this very interesting audiobook on my library’s website. I thought it interesting because this is […]

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Book Review : Trouble Has a New Name

[amazon_link id=”B00LZPQGP2″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Trouble Has a New Name Author : Adite Banerjie Genre : Romance Publisher : Harlequin Pages: 192 Publish Date : July 15th, 2014 Source : Author Rating : 3/5 This is author Banerjie’s second romance novel after “The Indian Tycoon’s Marriage Deal”. And in this novel, she has […]

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