Hello everyone! So I decided to redo my blog and make it so as the colour scheme is similar to my Instagram feed—black & red. I wasn't particularly interested in doing the refurbishing here. Hence, I made a new site from scratch. I've come to realize that this current blog of mine doesn't fit the …
This week's Top 5 Wednesday is all about 'Backlist Books,' or books that you've been eyeing for a while but still haven't read. To be completely honest, 5 books just isn't enough to list down all my backlist books, but we'll do our best to pick the ones that I have really been wanting to …
Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings …
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Erica Lindell would give anything to turn back time. To get a second chance to make the right decisions. To undo the devastating mistake that ruined everything. Left heartbroken after the loss of the love of her life, Sasha aka Prince Alexandre, Erica has to find a way to pick up the pieces of her …
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Sam Morneau is Melissa Parker’s best friend. He’s also a member of The Kind of September, basically the hottest boy band on the planet. After two and a half years, Mel is all too familiar with the day-to-day occurrences that come with being a member of the band’s inner circle, including hectic schedules, passionate fans, …
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For fans of television shows Black Mirror and Westworld, this compelling, mind-bending novel is a twisted look into the future, exploring how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimen and what it means to be human at all. Set in our world, spanning the near to distant futures, Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is a novel …
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Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, …
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This week's Top 5 Wednesday is all about our favourite tropes! It would have been a more simple of a choice if we're to pick tropes that we didn't like, but oh well! More than anything else, these are more at the top of my head "favourite" tropes. Disclaimer: The books mentioned in this list …
Entertainment Weekly, New & NotableNew York Post, Best Book of the Week By the author of the New York Times bestseller, Love Poems for Married People, and the Thurber Prize-winner Truth in Advertising comes a wry yet tenderhearted look at how one man's public fall from grace leads him back to his family, and back to the man he used …
A mother struggling to repress her violent past,A son struggling to grasp his violent future,A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even …
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