Book Review: Happy and you know it

Title: Happy and you know it Author: Laura Hankin Type: Fiction Pages: 384 Published: 2020 Laura Hankin’s debut is a quick read, a novel that could be categorized as a beach book. Its the type of book you can read all day until you finish it. Summary:After Claire is fired from her band, she’s trying to pay her way through New York City life, and … Continue reading Book Review: Happy and you know it

Book Review: All Things Consoled

Title: All Things Consoled  Author: Elizabeth Hay Type: Memoir Pages: 272 Published: 2019 Hay’s relationship with her parents had always been a tricky one but when they move across Ontario into a retirement home just down the road from Hay and her husband, she finds herself struggling with their slow decline into decrepitude. All Things Consoled is a recounting of those years and the family history that … Continue reading Book Review: All Things Consoled

Book Review: The Break

Title: The Break Author: Katherena Vermette Type: Fiction Pages: 288 Published: 2016 By opening this book, the reader should be prepared to be plunged into the deep winter darkness of Winnipeg. Snowy city streets and bone-chilling dampness fill the pages as slow and steady as a snowstorm in January. When Margaret Atwood describes a book as ‘very tough and real’ you know you’re in for … Continue reading Book Review: The Break

Book Review: The flat share

Title: The Flat share Author: Beth O’Leary Type: Fictional Romance Published: 2019 Pages: 400 Time:  3min Rating:7/10 I’ve been wanting to read this book because I’ve been seeing good things about it everywhere. Tiffy lives in London with her ex because she is living on a budget. One day she responds to a strange advert for a flatshare. The flat in question is only 1 … Continue reading Book Review: The flat share

Book Review: You had me at hola

Title: You Had Me at Hola: In search of love & truth in South AmericaAuthor: Leigh RobshawType: MemoirPublished: 2019Pages: 254 Time: 2 min You Had Me at Hola is the memoir of Leigh Robshaw who travels from her home in Australia to South America to seek adventure and find love. The plan is only meant to travel for three months, however Robshaw ends up telling the reader about how she … Continue reading Book Review: You had me at hola

Book Review: Only time will tell

hi guys, Author: Jeffery Archery Year published: 2011 Rating:7/10 So I stumbled Jefferey Archers book published in 2011, I admit its quite an old book. I kind of have mixed feelings about the book because of the repetition in the book, you find yourself reading the same information from three different people, which was kind of a drag. The book centers Harry Clifton, a boy … Continue reading Book Review: Only time will tell

Book Review: Someone we know

Author: Shari Lapena Genre: Thriller Rating: 8/10 Pages: 330 Someone We Know juggles characters and half a dozen others skillfully. Readers will go back and forth many times while attempting to guess the identity of the murderer. The additional introduction of Raleigh Sharpe’s crimes, as well as some other shady things that are later uncovered, threatens to tear this small Aylesford community apart. Another top-notch read … Continue reading Book Review: Someone we know