Category: Book Reviews

Down the Drain by Julia Fox Rating: nil (No ratings for memoirs) Real quick. Two truths and a lie: I love this book. I’ve been obsessed with Julia fox since forever. I’ve heard about Julia Fox but never actually knew who she was until this book. Since reading When breath becomes air, my interest in…

Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day.

This book is centered around racism, xenophobia, and plagiarism. It’s my personal belief that one should have and understand boundaries, but our main character, June, had nothing but a loud audacity.

Vivek’s story is one that I’ll always be in love with because of its storytelling, and everything it represents. You’d think that this story would revolve around what led to Vivek’s death, but it didn’t…

When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi Rating: nil (No ratings for memoirs) Blurb For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question ‘What makes a life worth living?’ At the age…