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June 25, 2014

OPEN ROAD SUMMER by Emery Lord

June 25, 2014

OPEN ROAD SUMMER by Emery LordEver got your emotions tangled up so much in a book, you didn’t know where to draw the line between your mind and the book? That’s how I felt about Open Road Summer.

Open Road Summer was actually not a book that I meant to read. I saw many praises for it online, particularly on Twitter, which is why I decided I would pass. I didn’t even read the synopsis. I saw the cover with the awfully overexposed sky washing out the couple with that weird tone of a green for the title, and thought, Nah, not gonna read that. I pretty much ignored all the raving henceforth. But then, a brand new copy stared right at me at the library. It basically called out to me, telling me to give it a chance. I couldn’t resist. I had to know what the hype was about.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: abuse, american authors, cheating, friendship, musicians, photography, realistic fiction, road trip, romance, single parenthood, summer, travel

February 26, 2014

THE PARADOX OF VERTICAL FLIGHT by Emil Ostrovski

February 26, 2014

There is something terrifying yet absolutely comforting about coming across a character that seems to be of equal mind to mine. Or maybe it’s the author’s thoughts that might as well have been pulled out of my very own mind. Not that I could have written this tale but the voice! That voice was like…

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· Categories: Fiction Keywords: choices, debut authors, friendship, growing up, life, mythology, philosophy, realistic fiction, road trip, travel

January 22, 2014

GOLDEN by Jessi Kirby

January 22, 2014

GOLDEN by Jessi KirbyGolden left me a little torn. On one hand, I really enjoyed it but on the other, it left me feeling unmoved. The prose was beautiful. The introspectiveness of it pulled me right in when I opened the book and read the first few pages.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, choices, conduct of life, diaries, epistolary, family problems, friendship, high school, hope, mystery, on love, realistic fiction, road trip, self discovery, single parenthood, story-within-a-story, travel

January 8, 2014

AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES by John Green

January 8, 2014

AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES by John GreenFor once I’m not entirely sure if my dislike for the book purely stems from the book itself or from the expectations that arose prior to reading the book because a very popular author wrote this. An Abundance of Katherines is the first full-length novel of John Green that I got my hands on. The first sentence had me totally hooked but no single sentence can sustain a whole book. No matter how good that sentence is. Despite my growing reservations, I decided to continue reading, even staying up till 3 a.m. one night just to complete it. Sleep would’ve been time better spent on my part.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, dating, graphic methods, interpersonal relations, mathematics, multiculturalism, muslim characters, nerds, realistic fiction, road trip, romance, self perception, travel

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