Author: Vince Flynn Published: 2010 Genre: Action/Thriller My Rating: 5/5 By: Katie I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as it constantly kept me engaged and interested. Usually I like to read horrors and thrillers and I wasn’t surprised that I liked this book, however I found the story line to be very smooth and rapid compared to others that I have read in the past. … Continue reading Book Review: American Assassin
Author: Claudia Orange Published: 1989 Genre: Non-Fiction By: Hilary The occupation of Ihumātao has resurfaced in the news lately and The Story of a Treaty is a book that goes into wonderful detail about the history that would lead to protests such as this. The book briefly covers the pre-colonial past of New Zealand then explains that which led to and came of the signing … Continue reading Book Review: The Story of a Treaty
Author: Anne Cassidy Published: 2004 Genre: Mystery My Rating: 5/5 By: Bella Looking for JJ is about a teenage girl who is convicted of murder as a child, throughout the plot her past is unraveled chapter by chapter. As a reader, we flick between her perspective as a young girl in the past and her older self as she adapts to the world after prison. … Continue reading Book Review: Looking for JJ
Author: Michael Grant Published: 2008 Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller My Rating: 5/5 By: Corbin I enjoyed this book more than I expected, mostly because of the way the writer had betrayed the story. To be honest I just couldn’t keep my head out of the book! The book was already on my top reads list but once I’d finished I just read it over and over. However, … Continue reading Book Review: Gone
Author: Marie Benedict Published: 2016 Genre: Historical Fiction My Rating: 4/5 By: Aurora Synopsis: This book tells the true story of Mileva Marić, a brilliant young physicist who married, and fell under the shadow of, her husband Albert Einstein. In a time when it was taboo for women to study or attend university, Mileva fights for a place in a male dominated field, leaving her … Continue reading Book Review: The Other Einstein
Author: Jonas Jonasson Published: 2009 (Swedish), 2012 (English) Genre: Comedy My Rating: 5/5 By: Nicole Synopsis: Allan Karlsson decides to climb out of the window of his retirement home in Malmköping on his hundredth birthday. What starts out of the centenarian’s boredom quickly transforms into something way bigger. The whole story begins when a man at the bus station whose suitcase is too big to … Continue reading Book Review: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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