This year has been a really tumultuous one for me; a roller coaster of a ride, if I may. Hence, the reason for not posting as regularly as I’d like (this post almost didn’t make it), due to lack of time and motivation, and most of the time I’m just too frazzled to write anything…
Author: Jee Wan
Mom, wife, book and coffee lover! Blogs about books at hookedonbookz.com. Please join me! ❤️😘
Jee reviews ‘The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times’ by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams with Gail Hudson @JaneGoodallInst @CeladonBooks #bookreview #CeladonBooks #CeladonReads #Partner #nonfiction #thebookofhope #inspiring #mothernature #series #GlobalIconSeries
Title/Author: The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams with Gail Hudson Publisher: Celadon Books Pages: 272 In a nutshell (Publisher): My thoughts: This is another brilliant book! I mean, how can it not be when it’s by Jane Goodall, right! Definitely adding this to my top…
Of haunted jungles, macabre mansions, possessed lands and bodies…Jee reviews ‘Build Your House Around My Body’ by Violet Kupersmith @oneworldnews @randomhouse #bookreview #fiction #asianlit #booksbypoc #bookreview #magicalrealism #asianfolklore #Vietnam #FrenchWar #buildyourhousearoundmybody
Title/Author: Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith Publisher: Random House Pages: 400 In a nutshell (Publisher): Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge.1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while…
Jee reviews ‘The Maidens’ by Alex Michaelides @CeladonBooks #psychologicalthriller #themaidens #GreekMythology #murdermystery #CeladonReads #Partner
Title/Author: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides Publisher: Celadon Books Pages: 352 In a nutshell (Publisher): Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of…
Jee’s #BookShoutout ‘Little White Hands (Garlen Greatheart)’ by Mark Cushen @MarkCushen87 #indieauthor #middlegrade #fantasy #fiction #series #debut #trilogy #selfpublished #littlewhitehands
Title/Author: Little White Hands by Mark Cushen Publisher: Self-published Pages: 339 Excerpt (from Chapter 1): If I were to tell you that there was once a humble little kitchenhand whostruggled through many perils and pitfalls to become a venerated hero, would you believe me? Probably not. Most likely you would say, “Pah!” or “Nonsense!” or…
Jee reviews ‘The Book of Magic’ by Alice Hoffman @SimonSchuster #UnpopularOpinion #bookreview #TheBookOfMagic #PracticalMagicFinale #PracticalMagicSeries #series #magicalrealism #witches #favauthor #fiction
Title/Author: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 396 In a nutshell (Publisher): The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured,…
QOTD: Do you use bookmarks? I do, just not actual ones. Here are some weird/random things I (and my daughter) use! #bookmarks #booklover #bookishhabits
I’m assuming most of you here don’t dog-ear your books. If you do, kindly leave this page. Kidding! Stay stay. We’re all different and I respect that 😉 (I do shudder at that thought though 😅) I’m sure you all have come across posts about using random stuff as bookmarks. I thought I’d do one…
#GIVEAWAY ! ‘The Book of Magic’ by @ahoffmanwriter #TheBookofMagic #ThePracticalMagicfinale #historicalfantasy @simonschuster
Title/Author: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 396 In a nutshell (Publisher): Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of…
Jee reviews ‘She Who Became the Sun’ by Shelley Parker-Chan @torbooks #SheWhoBecameTheSun #bookreview #booksbypoc #eARC #NetGalley #debutnovel #fantasy #histfic #fiction #historicalfantasy
Title/Author: She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Publisher: Tor Books Pages: 404 In a nutshell (Publisher): To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything “I refuse to be nothing…” In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A…
Jee reviews Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung @OneWorldLit #GhostForest #bookreview #asianlit #booksbypoc #debutnovel #fiction #asianliterature #immigrantstory #astronautfamily #chineseculture
Title/Author: Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung Publisher: One World Pages: 202 In a nutshell (Publisher): This “powerful” (BuzzFeed) debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers. “I am madly in love with this book, a kaleidoscopic wonder.”—T Kira Madden, author…
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