Tag: adult book recs

• My Full Review of Hwang Boreum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

  Welcome back to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a book you may recognise from a few weeks ago. I finished reading it a few hours ago, and I couldn’t think of a better review post to write up than the review this brilliant book deserves to have. Everything I said in my initial reaction to the novel…

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  May 25, 2024

  Contemporary Fiction

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• Magical Bookstore Vibes In Hwang Boreum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

  I was going to wait, but my current read is Hwang Boreum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop and it has blown me away within the first 50 pages. If you want to get a new perspective in life, want to see how others tackle existential questions about life, or you simply want to live your…

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  May 16, 2024

  Contemporary Fiction

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• Fiction At Its Finest In Pip Williams’s The Dictionary Of Lost Words

  I find myself lost for words to describe this beautiful book filled to the brim with incredible storytelling, compelling themes and symbolism, and, above all, a real sense of purpose and characterisation for our main character. Pip Williams’s The Dictionary of Lost Words is a masterful piece of work and I will put every persuasive…

  annafromuni

  April 27, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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• The Girl With The Red Hair is a Historical Fiction Must-Read

  After being recommended this by my aunt (thank you very much Aunty G) I have found a renewed interest and love for WWII stories. I previously found the titles I’ve picked up to be a little too removed from the action or the protagonists were too naive and ignorant to their surroundings. The Girl With…

  annafromuni

  April 18, 2024

  Historical Fiction, Posts

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• A Discovery of Witches is Peak Dark Academia Fantasy

  When I say that I fell in love with A Discovery of Witches upon reading it’s first few chapters, I’m not exaggerating in any way. Deborah Harkness has a truly mesmerising and compelling narrative style and is able to bring her settings to life, creating this supernatural-dipped Oxford where witches, vampires and daemons roam the…

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  April 6, 2024

  dark academia, Historical Fiction

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• All Authors Must Read Lovecraft

  H. P. Lovecraft is on of those writer’s whom set the foundations for a genre. His work, unappreciated in his years on this earth, lives on as a pinnacle of modern horror and he stands as the father of cosmic horror. You may not know is name off the top of your head if you’re…

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  October 11, 2023

  Horror

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