I received an e-arc of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way. Publisher: Allen LanePublished: October 2017 Pages: 229 Summary A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get… Continue reading Review: Of Women: In the 21st Century by Shami Chakrabarti
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BLOG TOUR Review + Giveaway: Steadfast by Michelle Hauck
I received an e-arc of this book via Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review as part of the blog tour organised by RockStar Book Tours. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way. Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Published: December 3, 2017 Format: eBook Series: Birth of Saints #3 Pages: 560 Find it: Amazon, Barnes… Continue reading BLOG TOUR Review + Giveaway: Steadfast by Michelle Hauck
Review: The Traitor by Seth Dickinson
I received an e-arc of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way. Publisher: Tor Published: September 2015 Pages: 387 Summary Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home and see red sails… Continue reading Review: The Traitor by Seth Dickinson
Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Einaudi Published: 10 June 2008 (first published 2006) Pages: 456Challenges: Library Challenge; Around the World Challenge; Women's Challenge Summary In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her… Continue reading Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Review: Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Publisher: Abacus Published: 5 February 2004 Pages: 352Challenges: Library Challenge; Around the World Challenge Summary (from Goodreads) In Max Barry's twisted, hilarious and terrifying vision of the near future, the world is run by giant corporations and employees take the last names of the companies they work for. It's a globalised, ultra-capitalist free market paradise.… Continue reading Review: Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Review: The Golden Cage. Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny by Shirin Ebadi
Format I Read/Publisher: Paperback, Rizzoli Pages: 253 Summary Conceived as a monument to all the victims of Iran's Islamic Revolution, The Golden Cage follows the lives of Shirin Ebadi's childhood friend Pari and her three brothers, as each of them subscribes to one of the different ideologies tearing the country - and their family -… Continue reading Review: The Golden Cage. Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny by Shirin Ebadi
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