Tag: Literary fiction
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Book Review: Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
If you were a teenager in the mid or late 2000s, it’s most likely that you have been watching Nickelodeon and iCarly in particular. Jennette McCurdy therefore isn’t a strange name to you. However, this former actress was a child star at the time and elaborated in depth on her experience on being a child…
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Book Review: The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
In recent years, Ashley Poston released multiple successful books for adults. Beforehand, she released a number of young adult novels, and although these are quite successful too, it seems like she has found a wider audience with her romance novels with a hint of magical realism. Although I was pretty hesitant at first, The Seven…
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Book Review: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Iranian-American author Marjan Kamali is an author whose books I read and thoroughly enjoyed. However, it took me a while to pick up her newest release, The Lion Women of Tehran. This is not due to the book itself, but I was awaiting a Dutch publication as I read her other books in Dutch. This…
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Book Review: Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
A book I have been meaning to read for a while now is Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad. It has been circling around on various TBR posts since summer 2025, especially because of its setting and it’s themes. This novel is set in Palestine and promised to shed a light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that…
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Book Review: Honor by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an author whose books I’ve been eyeing for a while now. Especially There Are Rivers in the Sky has piqued my interest, which I finally acquired last month. Ironically enough, it’s Honor that was my introduction to this author. This is one of Shafak’s first books, published in 2011. However, as this…