Devotion







Author: Hannah Kent

Publisher: Picador Australia

First Published: 26 October 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5.



“Love runs through her like a seam of gold. It runs through me, too, we are illuminated.”  

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Picador Australia and Netgalley for sending a copy my way!

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Daisy Jones & The Six

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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Publisher: Hutchinson (Imprint of Random House UK)

First Published: 5 March 2019

Rating: 5 stars

 

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“But that’s the thing. Art doesn’t owe anything to anyone.”

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99 Nights in Logar

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Author: Jamil Jan Kochai

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

First Published: 8 January 2019

Rating: 3.5 stars

 

“The interpreter asked us if we truly meant to find the ghosts of your dead children. ‘Even ghosts need company,’ Jawed said.”  

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Anticipated 2019 Releases

Hello,

This is the time of year for either reflection or looking ahead to the new year. And this post will be one of the looking ahead ones. Today I’m going to share with you my most anticipated releases for 2019!

This won’t be a definitive list of all the releases I’m interested in. But I do create this list and add to it throughout the year. This list lives under the Anticipated Reads tab on the main menu.

Warring my thoughts on these books and why I’m excited will some time be incoherent rambling of excitement so I’m also including the currently available synopsis of each of these books.

Each photo is linked to the corresponding goodreads pages. So if you like the sound of it, you can add it to you goodreads TBR

They are listed in no particular order.

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A Superior Spectre

Superior Spectre

Author: Angela Meyer

Publisher: Ventura Press

First Published: 01 August 2018

Rating: 4 stars

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“This water is so clear I can lean over and see myself. I am Narcissus, in love with the image of my suffering, fixed in place and soon to drown.”  

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Ventura Press and NetGalley!

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August 2018 Wrap Up

Hello!

I am here with August Wrap Up. This month I read a total of 4 books and 1,668 pages.

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Stella Reads: An Uncertain Grace

AN UNCERTAIN GRACE

Author: Krissy Kneen

Publisher: Text Publishing

First Published: 31 August 2017

Rating: 5 stars

“I shellfish down into myself, now as I did them when I met her, curling up into the calcium carbonate whorls of me.”

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Stella Reads: The Fish Girl

THE FISH GIRL

Author: Mirandi Riwoe

Publisher: Seizure

First Published: 24 August 2017

Rating: 4.5 stars

 

 

“In vain, her eyes search beyond the other houses and palm trees for a glimpse of the sea. She will run away. She will flee to the water’s edge and the Ocean Queen will tell her what to do”

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Circe

CIRCE

Author: Madeline Miller

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

First Published: 19 April 2018

Rating: 5 stars

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“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead then anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.

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The Red Word

The Red Word

Author: Sarah Henstra

Publisher: Black Cat

First Published: 13 March 2018

Rating: 5 stars

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“This is the trouble with myth. Each of us scoops out our own rotten core and spits it out on stage. We stand around the heap of smoking corpses and declare it fate.”

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.

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