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Feb 16, 20195 min read
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Rating- 10/10 The Color Purple by Alice Walker What a classic. The Color Purple is hailed as one of the ‘greats’ in English literature....
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Feb 11, 20193 min read
The Night Before by Wendy Walker
Rating- 9/10 The Night Before by Wendy Walker Publication Date- 14th May 2019 I would like to a say a very big thank you to St Martin's...
Chrissy's Books
Feb 3, 20198 min read
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Rating- 10/10 Becoming- Michelle Obama What a title. Becoming Me, Becoming Us, Becoming More. Those are the main sections in Michelle...
Chrissy's Books
Jan 15, 20194 min read
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Rating 7/10 On The Road by Jack Kerouac I’m not gonna lie, I did watch the movie before reading the book. Terrible, I know. Especially...
Chrissy's Books
Dec 31, 20184 min read
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Rating- 8/10 The Alchemist by Paul Coelho I’ve always heard about this book from various people since it was like mega famous back in the...
Chrissy's Books
Dec 20, 20183 min read
Kitchens of the Great Midwest- J. Ryan Stradal
Rating- 7/10 Kitchens of the great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal After the last action packed and brutal book I read which was excellent by...
Chrissy's Books
Dec 10, 20184 min read
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Rating- 8/10 The Silence of the Girls- Pat Barker If you don’t already know, i’m a longtime fan of ancient epic Greek stories and The...
Chrissy's Books
Nov 28, 20182 min read
Behind Her Eyes- Sarah Pinborough
Rating- 6/10 Behind Her Eyes- Sarah Pinborough It's been a minute since I've read a psycho mystery thriller so I had to throw it back my...
Chrissy's Books
Nov 20, 20183 min read
The Leavers- Lisa Ko
Rating- 10/10 The Leavers- Lisa Ko Words cannot describe how amazing this book is. A good friend of mine had told me it was one of her...
Chrissy's Books
Nov 5, 20185 min read
Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race- Reni Eddo-Lodge
Rating- 10/10 Judging by the title of this book, you would think that this would be a provocative and radical read. When in reality, it...
Chrissy's Books
Oct 19, 20183 min read
The Incendiaries- R. O. Kwon
Rating- 6/10 Incendiary | noun in•cen•di•ary | plural- incendiaries Definition of Incendiary 1.a. A person who commits arson b. A...
Chrissy's Books
Oct 10, 20184 min read
My Cousin Rachel- Daphne Du Maurier
Rating- 7/10 So after reading Rebecca a while back, I knew this book was one of Daphne Du Maurier's best sellers. In fact, it was the...
Chrissy's Books
Sep 29, 20183 min read
American Street- Ibi Zoboi
Rating- 9/10 Who doesn't love a good coming of age story. American Street is exactly that, and then some! American Street, the debut...
Chrissy's Books
Sep 23, 20184 min read
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
Rating- 7/10 "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." What a great opening line,...
Chrissy's Books
Sep 16, 20184 min read
Sex and the City and Us- Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Rating 10/10 Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda & Samantha. What fabulous legends they were, still are actually! I'm pretty sure the reason why I...
Chrissy's Books
Sep 8, 20183 min read
Brooklyn- Colm Toibin
Rating 8/10 My friend Amy, fetched this book from her bookshelf one day and told me that this was her favourite author ever. I always...
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Sep 1, 20183 min read
I Let You Go- Clare Mackintosh
Rating 5/10 This is my second Clare Mackintosh book. The first one I read was 'I See You' a while back, scroll through the blog homepage...
Chrissy's Books
Aug 23, 20183 min read
Ford Road- Amy Kenyon
Rating- 6/10 This is the first time ever that i read a book by someone I personally know like in real life! Kinda cool that I now know...
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Aug 18, 20183 min read
An American Marriage- Tayari Jones
Rating 10/10 This is definitely in my top 3 books of 2018. Talk about an emotional roller-coaster !! What. a. book. So I first came...
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Aug 2, 20183 min read
The Song of Achilles- Madeline Miller
Rating 10/10 What a page turner! Action packed, thrilling, bold, sexy, vivid, mysterious...the list goes on. It's not often I give a full...
Chrissy's Books
Jul 21, 20183 min read
The Little Paris Bookshop- Nina George
Rating- 4/10 After reading a super intense but awesome book, I was after a summery easy breezy novel and remembered I had this cute...
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