Genre: Graphic Novel, Sequential Art, Comics, Fantasy, Romance Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pages: 112 Publication Date: 01 September, 2020 My Rating: 5 out of 5 bookmarks Synopsis: Elsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match. This all changes one night in a bar when …
Review: Kusama – The Graphic Novel by Elisa Macellari
Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography, Contemporary Art, Graphic Novel, Sequential ArtPublisher: Laurence King PublishingPages: 128Publication Date: 15 September, 2020My Rating: 3.5 out of 5 bookmarks Synopsis: From rural Japan to international icon – Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold …
Review: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a book which can require one to review it keeping aside their political views and read through the story as it’s told even though the book is fired up with Roy’s own politics. The book talks of everyone who’d see themselves to be ‘unconsoled’. Every character in this book …
Review: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
“It’s the nuances of desire that hold the truth of who we are at our rawest moments. I set out to register the heat and sting of female want so that men and other women might more easily comprehend before they condemn. Because it’s the quotidian moments of our lives that will go on forever, …
Review: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is one humongous book which tends to live on many people’s bookshelves for a long time. It’s been on mine too, for the longest time as well – for well over 2 years precisely. I picked up this book alongside many others as part of a read-along I host on …
Book Review: Size Zero by Abigail Mangin
I am going to keep this review short for a single reason: I REALLY DISLIKED the book. Size Zero has been categorized under the crime thriller genre but that’s only half accurate. While it lives up to the crime bit, the only thrill I felt was when I FINALLY finished reading it after constantly putting …
Review: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
“That’s the choice, I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose, I love him on purpose.” Have you ever had that feeling of unlimited joy, of a happiness you can’t express completely but at the same time it’s bouncing around inside you like an ion which can’t be contained? Yea, that’s …
Fantastic Flying Bookclub Blog Tour: The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen (Review & Author Interview)
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction Publisher: Wattpad Books Pages: 312 Publication Date: June 16, 2020 My Rating: 5 out of 5 bookmarks Synopsis: It’s the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he’s sent to spend the summer with …
Review: Forte by Manon Heugel
Genre: Comics, Contemporary Woman, Graphic Novels Publisher: Dargaud Pages: 208 Publication Date: 22 April, 2020 My Rating: 3.5 out of 5 bookmarks Synopsis: Flavia Antunes grew up in a favela. Her father was a casualty of gang warfare; her mother, a cleaning lady, is all she has left. That is, until she meets Mr. Lima, …
Review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
I started reading Maybe You Should Talk to Someone to be a part of a read-along and participate in it’s discussions. Here’s a thing I’ve realized about read-along’s – while they’re really good for you to read through a book quickly and have in-depth conversations about them, sometimes it may pull you out of your …