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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry - Stephanie Saldaña - ★★★★.½

A book focussing not on refugees or their distressing situations, but on what they carry with them of their earlier…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

Dear Rebel: 125 Women Share Their Best Advice for the Girls of Today - Rebel Girls - ★★★★

An inspiring collection of letters, poems, anecdotes, and motivational write-ups on various topics written by rebel girls to rebel girls.

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

The Book Club Murders - Alan Gorevan - ★★★★

A fast-paced thriller set around the members of a book club. Murders and mayhem combined with complicated characters provide an…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

Words We Cannot Say - Sita Romero - ★★★

Started off nicely but I started drifting off midway as it started going wilder. Explores many themes, but also has…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

Foxlight - Katya Balen - ★★★.½

A middle-grade novel focussing on a pair of eleven-year-old twins and their quest to look for their mom in the…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

Lost Dogs - Lucie Page - ★★★★.¼

A quirky book about a medley of individuals who are “lost dogs” in a sense. Impeccable in character development. Wanted…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

The Other Year - Rea Frey - ★★.½

A sliding-door style story. Mine is an outlier review, partly because I expected something else altogether from this book. Some…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

Strange Tales - Daniel Morden - ★★★.¾

A really good collection of fantastical stories, but these are better described as retold folktales than as “strange” or “weird”…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

Luminous: The Story of a Radium Girl - Samantha Wilcoxson - ★★★★.¼

The hard-hitting story of Catherine Donohue, one of the women who went against a radium corporation in the 1930s after…

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BookChatter, 8 Dec 2023

Change of Plans - Dylan Newton - ★★★.½

A romcom where I enjoyed a lot of the ‘rom’ and disliked a lot of the supposed ‘com’. USP: a…