20 April 2016

Author Q&A Session #67: With Leah Scheier


Welcome my dear bookworms,

Yes once again it's time to catch up with so many author interviews! And it feels really great to talk with so many authors in a single day.

It's time to welcome with opens arms to another author, Leah Scheier, whose new book, Your Voice Is All I Hear, which is a poignant and heart-breaking young adult love story, has already been loved by so many readers. Let's talk with this talented writer to know more about her, and her books and her life beyond books.


Read the review of Your Voice Is All I Hear

Author Q&A Session #66: With Shawna Yang



Hello my fellow bibliophiles,

Welcome to another new author interview session and right now, we will welcome, Shawna Yang Ryan, whose new book, Green Island, is making a lot of noise in the literary world. Let's talk with her to know about this talented writer, her books and her life beyond books and all.


Read the review of Green Island

Author Q&A Session #65: With Suzanne Redfearn



Hello my dear readers,

Welcome to a brand new day. Hope you're all having a good day. It is now afternoon in my part of the country, India. As usual we are panicking and drowning in this unbearably hot and humid weather. Hope you are all staying safe.

Enough of chit-chat, now let's welcome another talented and amazing beset-selling author, Suzanne Redfearn. (clapping!!)

She is here to chat about her new novel, No Ordinary Life and about her life beyond books and all. So keep reading!

Read the review of No Ordinary Life

Review #403: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”


----Marguerite Duras




Bonnie Jo Campbell, an award-wining American author, has penned a book of short stories, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, that unfolds the stories of some hard-working middle-class some abused and some vulnerable women in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Each and every story has a female protagonist who narrates an unusually raw and shamefully honest story about their lives that questions our male dominated society.


19 April 2016

Review #402: The Kiss by Lucy Courtenay



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”


----Karen Marie Moning



Lucy Courtenay, an American author, has penned a heart-touching and entertaining young adult contemporary love-story, The Kiss that narrates the story of a teenage girl who after experiencing the best kiss of her life, starts judging the relationship of her best friend with her boyfriend with the level of their kiss and soon on her attempt to fix things , this teenager messes up not only her friend's life but also her life as well.



Review #401: Beautiful Country by J.R. Thornton



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it."

----Roger Federer



J.R. Thornton, An internationally ranked junior tennis player, pens his debut novel, Beautiful Country that narrates the story of a young boy in a new country-Beijing, all by himself, to get trained under best and strict tennis coach so that he could be ready for the international championships. But when friendship comes before Tennis, he needs to make a terrible choice to protect either the people or the things he love.



17 April 2016

Review #400: The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen, Simon Bruni (translation)



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” 


----Leo Tolstoy



Paul Pen, a Spanish author, pens his debut English thriller, The Light of the Fireflies which unfolds the story of a young boy who lives with his close-knit family in a basement, as his family claims that before his birth, a terrible fire had destroyed their home, their skin and everything along with it, except their lives. This is his story of how he becomes successful to escape from his family secrets and from that dark basement.



Review #399: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs



My rating:
3 of 5 stars


“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.”

----Criss Jami



Ransom Riggs, the New York Times bestselling author, has penned a fascinating paranormal-themed story, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children that is the first book in this chilling and haunting new series, Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children. This story follows the adventure of a sixteen year old rich boy who found his late grandfathers' fantasy and peculiar stories to be true after his death and to rest his grandfather's soul in peace, he embarks on this bone-chilling adventure to an old, creepy island to find out a children's orphanage and the mysteries surrounding those peculiar children.