Book 19/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsThe Piano Teacher was my 19th read of the year. It took me two weeks to get through it, yet none of the 18 books I read before took me longer than one week to complete. You’d think the reason for that is The Piano Teacher is some … Continue reading The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

Book 17/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsNonfiction is NOT my thing, which is why I’ve had this book on my shelf for at least 4 years 😐 I went into this not expecting to like it, but it ended up being an enjoyable 3 star read. It’s a short read at 169 pages broken … Continue reading Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Book 16/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsI was verrrryyy apprehensive about this because while I LOVE! LOVE!! LOVE!!! Sex and The City the TV show, the book can easily be described as a heaping pile of steaming dog shit. I went into this with fingers crossed that it wouldn’t be even more dog shit, … Continue reading The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell

Book 15/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsI realllllllyyyyyy debated on whether to rate this 3 or 4 stars, but at the end I settled on 4 stars and that was mostly due to the strength of Handful’s chapters. Sarah’s chapters were pretty strong at the beginning and end of the book, but the middle … Continue reading The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Book 14/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsThe Silent Patient made me fall in love with the psychological thriller/suspense genre and set the bar sky-high for all other books I intend to read in the genre. An acquaintance recommended this book to me severally and I went into it expecting to love it, or at … Continue reading Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

Book 13/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsBefore this I’d only read one other Colleen Hoover book, It Ends with Us, in July 2018 and it’s one of my favourite books of all time. Coming across it on social media always makes me smile and I’m highkey jealous of anyone who gets to read IEWU … Continue reading Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Book 12/30. My rating: 4 of 5 stars I saw a couple of reviews, one on Goodreads from Yvette Adams and several random ones on bookstagram saying this book made them cry. I went into this excited to shed a few tears (lol, for real) but nary a tear was shed 😐 I don’t know … Continue reading The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Book 11/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars Sigh! Another book that lured me in with Oprah’s Book Club logo on the cover 😐This book has a rating of 3.39 on Goodreads, which is nothing to write home about. I may have rated this 3 stars, but it started off as a 2 star read … Continue reading Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay

Book 10/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would, but I also liked it more than I thought I would.Allow me to explain.After a series of misses I no longer approach novels from Oprah’s Book Club with any sort of anticipation. I have bought too … Continue reading White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Book 9/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars I bought this on a whim pre-Covid for KES 100 (around $1 back then 😩) and did not expect much from it as I’d watched The Silence of the Lambs years ago and it did not impress me much **Shania Twain voice**. But fucking hell this was … Continue reading Red Dragon by Thomas Harris