Hey y'all! Today I wanted to talk to you about some big, thicc books that you can escape in while you're at home social distancing. I really love big books and enjoy getting lost in them. I do love an epic, thick fantasy, but a I also like to sink into a sprawling family drama … Continue reading Book Recommendations: Big Books to Get Lost In
Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping … Continue reading Big Book Review: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple … Continue reading Big Book Review: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
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