Review: Karthik Delivers
Karthik Raghavan is good at remembering things. Like his bike routes. Or all the reasons he likes Juhi Shah—even if she doesn’t even know he exists. It doesn’t help that she seems to have a crush on his arch nemesis, Jacob Donnell, whose only job is to humiliate Karthik (and get his name wrong). Then Karthik’s luck changes when he secretly agrees to be in a play about the famous musician, Leonard…
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Odd one Out by Quinton Skinner
Title: Odd One Out
Author: Quinton Skinner
Series: N/A
Number of Pages: 307
Genre: Family Life Fiction
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Date of Original Publication: May 30, 2017
ISBN: 978-1938849954
Getting them knocked out of the park this month. Read this one quite fast. Honestly regret reading this one.
Odd One Out by Quinton Skinner was a story of a family going through a divorce and the outcome ten years later. The story shows the affects from multiple families’ point of view over two different time periods.
I’m from Minnesota and still live in Minnesota. I actually live two small towns over from where the author lives. I bought this book in Barnes & Nobles at the Maplewood Mall in Maplewood, MN. It was on the shelf designated for staff picks. I like MN based books and thought it was great that a staff member had recommended it. Unfortunately the book being MN based was really the only good thing I have to say about the book. I liked the first half of the book when they were kids. But the second half of the book I honestly disliked.
This book really doesn’t have anything happy about it. Not even the ending. The first half of the book was entertaining and comical. The second half of the book was like an airplane trying to land and missing its landing gear every time. There’s no real resolution for every issue the family member has and there’s no real point to the book. You find out in the end, why the beginning events of the book happened. But all the rest in the middle is pretty much pointless. Just a bunch of events written to fill gaps. Was very disappointed.
★ Wouldn’t recommend.
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Up Next: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
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one has a doctorate in nuclear physics from oxford. the other is a gold medalist in the olympics. i'm not crying, you're crying
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Yes, I'm taken (I'm dating a fictional character inside my head)
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Something about not knowing how to deal with your sibling's emotions
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I think one of the reasons friendships in fiction are often overlooked in fandom is because they're not written like real friendships. Like don't get me wrong, a huge part of it definitely stems from an obsession with sex and romance on the part of the people consuming the media, but that's not all of it.
In fiction, friendships are often trivial bonds. An easy relationship to establish between two characters. A way for the two of them to establish how they're feeling about a particular event by using each other as a vessel for a long personal rant. And pretty much all actual emotional relationships and important dynamics are given to romantic or familial relationships.
But in real life, friendships can be the things that change you more than anything else. They can be deeply impactful in a way that romance sometimes isn't. Your friends can be the people that you lean on when times are tough, who support you and bond with you. They can even save your life. And you don't need a traditional "found family" plot as an excuse to write this either. Sometimes your friend can feel like your sibling, but sometimes they're just your friend, and that can be meaningful all on its own.
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Out Now - Silence the Past: Gary L. Kreigh
Out Now – Silence the Past: Gary L. Kreigh
This cosy murder mystery grabbed my attention because of its unique theme and the author’s strong voice. With his usual insight, Kreigh explores how the ‘sins of our forefathers’ can affect their descendants, using ordinary people as his subjects and all wrapped up in a mystery with plenty of twists to keep you guessing.
Who stands to gain from a notorious past?
When the daughter of a board…
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Happy Paperback Publication Day to @jonnywaistcoat and FAMILY BUSINESS!
DEATH. IT’S A DIRTY BUSINESS.
When Diya Burman’s best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons – a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased.
Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people’s lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won’t they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs?
If Diya’s not careful, she might just end up getting buried under the family tree. . .
'A triumph, thriving on relatable fears, hyper-realistic dirty homes, and understandable grief' - Fantasy Hive
'It completely blew me away' - FanFi Addict
'Don't read by yourself in a strange hotel room if you want to come out psychologically unscathed' - Me, specifically, learning lessons the hard way so that other people don't have to.
If you want a book that will:
Make you twitch at strange shapes outside the windows as the nights get darker
Break you in the smallest ways with the simplest observations of the meaning of humanity and love
Give you new and exciting things to be scared of that actually, on reflection, had probably always been lurking in the depths of your psyche just waiting to be called up
FAMILY BUSINESS is the book you want to grab.
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Review: Real, Not Perfect
Tessa has lived a trouble-free life as the only child of two loving parents–she is well-liked, gets straight As, is on the competitive swim team, and is active in her church youth group. It’s a pretty perfect life! That is, until she comes home from swim practice one day to find that her parents are divorcing. Along with that, her BFF has moved to Florida, and Tessa gets stuck in Intro to…
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Been thinking about how Donnie and Leo’s insecurities juxtapose each other.
Donnie is insecure about his place in the family, but confident in who he is outside of it.
Leo is secure about being a part of the family, but thinks he’s nothing outside of it.
I think it’s a very interesting comparison that reflects their respective personalities, Donnie’s “Will all I have to offer be enough?” versus Leo’s “Do I even have anything else to offer?”
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