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❤️❤️❤️💔 As Joan Didion is one of my favourite authors, I have made it a goal to read every thing she has ever written. Blue Nights is ostensibly a memoir of her grief at losing her only child, Quintana Roo Dunne, so soon after losing her beloved husband and partner, John Gregory Dunne. Blue Nights…

 ❤️❤️❤️❤️  Far and away my favourite Jodi Picoult novel, My Sister’s Keeper was also my first introduction to the now very famous author. Telling the story of a family, with 3 children – an older son, Jesse, who spends most of his life ignored; Kate, the middle child, who has leukaemia, and youngest child, Anna,…

❤️❤️❤️💔 They Would Never Hurt A Fly is a very apt title for Slavenka Drakulić’s narrative on the trials of the war criminals at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Drakulić covers what led to the war in Yugoslavia, and its subsequent breakdown, as well as individual men charged with war crimes…

❤️❤️  Yates’ debut novel was made into a Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 2008. A sad, and extremely disturbing portrait of a 1950s marriage between a couple who see themselves as above the rest of their suburban neighbours. April Wheeler fancies herself an artist, an actress, not like the housewives by whom she is…

❤️❤️❤️  Fans of NPH are aware of his quirky sense of humour and his love of Magic and Illusion, but they may not be aware of his apparent affection for the Choose Your Own Adventure novels that many of us read in elementary school. For those who aren’t aware – Choose Your Own Adventures were…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ My Name Is Lucy Barton is the story of a woman who reconnects with her estranged mother after years apart. Through her thoughts, between conversations with her mother, Lucy makes it clear that the home she grew up in was not safe for a child. Her father suffered from undiagnosed PTSD, and her mother…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Anna Kendrick’s bestselling memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, creates the feeling that you are chatting with a new friend, and, as she writes, she “mostly talks, and you listen. As most conversations in real life.” She writes about her rise to stardom, including her time as a child actor, she writes of her anxieties and…

❤️❤️❤️💔  The Light Between Oceans is such a rich, beautiful book that it becomes challenging to do it justice. The pacing of the book, for me, was off, taking a few attempts to get invested in the story, but by Chapter 10 (page 85), I was engulfed. The historical novel flashes through a few time…

❤️❤️❤️❤️  Most of the world knows Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo – spunky, dizzy red headed wife of night club band leader, Ricky Ricardo, who, along with her best friend and neighbour, Ethel Mertz, was constantly getting herself into scrapes. Ball’s autobiography is a revelation to fans and non-fans alike. Unlike her character, Ball was…