BOOK REVIEW : LOVE FROM A TO Z BY S.K.ALI
TITLE : Love From A to Z AUTHOR : S.K.Ali GENRE : Romance, Contemporary, YA FBRC RATING : 5 stars BLURB : A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together. An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb’s teacher, who won’t stop reminding the class how “bad” Muslims are. But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn’t bad. She’s angry. When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in…
BOOK REVIEW : ON THE COME UP BY ANGIE THOMAS
I’ve always had this theory that God is a sitcom writer who loves to put me in ridiculous situations. – ANGIE THOMAS (ON THE COME UP) TITLE : On the come up AUTHOR : Angie Thomas GENRE : Contemporary fiction, YA FBRC RATING : 5 stars BLURB : Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he hit big, Bri’s got big shoes to fill. But now that her mom has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and shutoff notices are as much…
BOOK REVIEW : THE ROSIE PROJECT BY GRAEME SIMSION
Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others. – GRAEME SIMSION, THE ROSIE PROJECT TITLE : The rosie project AUTHOR : Graeme Simsion GENRE : Romance, Comedy, Woman’s Fiction, Chick-lit FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB : An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has…
