Me Before You by Jojo Moyes The ending is sad but reasonable, which makes it a pretty good sad story, kinda like Pygmalion : you create something, and you fell in love with it or her naturally as breathing in the air. Will is kind, generous and thoughtful. Lou is lovely and has so much potential. The […]
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The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews Audio Book read by Isabel Keating The reason why I chose this book is simply liking the amazing dress on the cover. Yet through a whole week’s time finishing it, I found out that I don’t like Dempsey, not at all, because she is not as smart and what’s more, […]
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The Cloud Leopard’s Daughter by Deborah Challinor the final in The Smuggler’s Wife series This whole book is about family and adventure, so what the hell is this cover about ? So good a story that I almost missed it out because of the kinda too-romantic-and-too-irrelevant cover. Maybe this cover is about somewhere in Dunedin, […]
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White Ghosts, Yellow Peril by Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Dazheng Zeng Vast amount of details made this a vivid portrait of the lives of Chinese and New Zealanders in 1790-1950.
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The Complete History of New Zealand (in less than two hours) by Peter Jessup Simple but useful, this little book drew out a clear story-line for early modern New Zealand .
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The Selection by Kiera Cass Audio book read by Amy Rubinate While, the competing tales happen in palace are really popular in China, and the girls in those TV series are fierce enough to get what they want through all possible means, which makes those stories unreal and dramatic on the other side. This novel is […]
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The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Judged on things cyril went through, “the world is a fucked-up place “. People die in the end, but still, things about human dignity and individual sufferings do matter whatsoever.
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Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner Well I guess green gowns are deadly temptation to me.This book is really far better that I had assumed. Really another good story ruined by an unrelated title and cover.
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The Painter’s Daughter by Julie Klassen Well , just another love novel in which the girl would mass all things up because of indecisive between two men. Come to think of it, seriously, there aren’t two men to choose actually. Maybe the fact is that I just don’t like those love-and- nothing novels as I used […]
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Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon Audiobook read by Bahni Turpin Madeline was diagnosed severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), or “bubble baby disease”, thus had to stay inside her own house, for all her life, at lest it seemed that way at the very start. Then sadly or happily or maybe both, it turned out to be a terrible […]
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