When a book knocks me out, I like to pick up another offering by the same author. This habit served me well during my annual quest to read at least one book a week.
As the most aggressive, competitive, and ambitious sign, Aries are fierce and fearless. I’m an Aries, and I live with five other Aries I’m an expert. It’s only appropriate I recommend my favourite book to all my aggressive little fire signs out there: Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees, a beautiful tale of female independence and unexpected motherhood.
Book Club Picks for May 2021 By Gilcy Aquino | May 12, 2021
Just as April showers brought the gift of May flowers, we’re bringing you the long-awaited book club picks for this month. Whether you’ve started to feel antsy stuck at home or feeling in need of a change because the path you’re on isn’t the right one for you, these book club picks are sure to keep you
Fully Booked.
by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (Park Row)
Recommended for: Those of us with immigrant parents who wonder what their lives might have been like before settling down in America with a sprinkling of murder mystery thrown in for good measure.
O’Brien told the duchess how she penned the story out of loneliness.
“It did cause a bit of commotion, to put it mildly. People were very offended and my family were ashamed, and I had betrayed my country and a lot of tosh,” she said.
“But at the time it hurt very much. People say to me, ‘how could you have written that book?’
“And I said, ‘I have to tell you, I didn’t think there was anything offensive in it. I wrote it out of a loneliness’.”
As well as Girl, the other books chosen by Camilla for season two of her Reading Room are: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, and The Secret Commonwealth from The Book Of Dust trilogy by Philip Pullman.
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