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Welcome to Hasty Book List, where I document and review the books I read. Hope you have a nice stay!
Welcome to Hasty Book List, where I document and review the books I read. Hope you have a nice stay!
All in Fiction
My (not so) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella is about Katie/Cat - a 20-something from a farm in Somerset, England who just moved to London to start her first full-time job at a brand consulting firm. She grew up dreaming about the "city princesses" living in their beautiful town homes, wearing the latest designer clothing, and eating out at all of the hottest restaurants. Katie's boss, Demeter, is all of those things (if also kind of a nightmare to work for.)
Part of the way I judge whether or not I'm enjoying a book is how easily I get lost in the story. Does everything else melt away? Can I read for hours and it feels like minutes? Do I forget about everything else I need to do and only think about the book?
Where is the most dangerous place on earth? High school. As I read this book I wondered how any of us survived middle school and high school. It touches on themes such as drugs, alcohol, teen sex, suicide, bullying, statutory rape, and more. Yet the author somehow manages to leave the reader with a glimmer of hope at the end...
What does it mean to be a grownup? This is the question at the heart of Jami Attenberg's book, All Grown Up. At the center of the story is Andrea, a single woman living in Manhattan. Each chapter is almost written like a diary with Andrea telling us stories from her life: past and present.
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid follows a relationship as it runs its course. Nadia and Saeed met as their country was on the brink of a civil war - forcing their relationship to move faster and in different ways than it might have under ordinary circumstances
This was a pleasant surprise! I saw a few of my Instagram friends posting about this one so I bought it without reading much about it. This novel is about an open relationship and all the complications (both emotional and logistical) that you'd imagine would accompany such an arrangement.
