Book 39/30. My rating: 4 of 5 stars4 ½ stars.This was sooo good. So much so that I'm going to do something I rarely do which is give this an extra ½ star. I’ve mentioned a few times before that I’m not a believer in ½ stars when it comes to reviews, so this is … Continue reading Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Author: Lwile the Leo
Lwile is a writer from Nairobi, Kenya who is passionate about Mental Health, books and Taylor Swift.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Book 38/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsI almost never reread books but I decided to change that because I own wayyy too many amazing books to only read them once.This was my second time reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, the first time being in 2015 as part of my first ever structured reading challenge … Continue reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Book 37/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsAmerican Dirt has the most riveting first chapter I have ever read!! It harrowingly sets the tone on what to expect from this fast-paced book about a mother and son forced to flee to America from the Mexican cartel. Unable to use any of the conventional methods of … Continue reading American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
Book 36/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsOh dear. It sucks to say this about a book published posthumously, but I just did not enjoy this.I added The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories to my Want to Read shelf on Goodreads on January 6, 2016 and I was excited to finally getting around to … Continue reading The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Book 35/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsThis started off realllllllyyyyyy well. Funny, frivolous and sooo much fun!!! Crazy Rich Asians has a myriad of characters and while some are more interesting than others, every one of them made the book so funny, frivolous and fun. I was dead sure I would rate this 4 … Continue reading Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Book 34/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsWhew! I’mma need a few days to wrap my head around the fact that the person who wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the same person who wrote A Spot of Bother. The former is such a lovely book while the latter is … Continue reading A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Happy Midnights Day
Today, at midnight sharp EST, Taylor Swift released her 10th studio album titled Midnights. It is a collection of 13 (duh!) songs written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. To know me, whether intimately or from social media, is to know that I am definitely maybe the biggest … Continue reading Happy Midnights Day
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Book 33/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well this was disappointing 😐Not long into The Alice Network I started to seriously question why Kate Quinn didn’t just set the story in 1915 during the Great War. This would have easily been a 5 star read if she did, but alas the 1947 storyline dragged … Continue reading The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Book 32/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars It took me five days to get through my fifth 5 star read of the year and I’m loving all the fives in this sentence 🤩😅I initially wasn’t planning on reading Where the Crawdads Sing as Emily May, the only person I follow on Goodreads, DNFd it … Continue reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Book 31/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsI added Verity to my Goodreads Want to Read shelf on April 28, 2020. 2 years, 5 months later I finally got around to reading it and I 🥳🥳🥳💃💃💃 as Verity was the book I was most excited to read this year. I could not fucking wait to … Continue reading Verity by Colleen Hoover
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