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The Binding – Bridget Collins

The Binding – Bridget Collins

Posted on: 5 March 202112 October 2025

How would you wish that your unpleasant memories disappear? If you could bind those memories into a book, would you be willing to? Or would you consider those who have bound their memory into a book a cowards?

The Perfect Life – Nuala Ellwood

The Perfect Life – Nuala Ellwood

Posted on: 18 February 202112 October 2025

This provided book has an easy flow that I could barely take it down. I thought it might be an interesting read, based on the synopsis. But I have to disappoint you: it doesn’t even reach my book recommendation list and here’s why

Forty Rules Of Love – Elif Shafak

Forty Rules Of Love – Elif Shafak

Posted on: 31 August 202012 October 2025

I have been willing to read one of her books for quite sometime. This book, although very easy to read, contains words which, if you’re not familiar with Read more

Tropenbruid – Susan Smit

Tropenbruid – Susan Smit

Posted on: 31 August 202012 October 2025

I know that it sounds cliche to review this in English while the book is only available in Dutch language. Well, I hope it will be available in Read more

Lichter Dan Ik – Dido Michielsen

Lichter Dan Ik – Dido Michielsen

Posted on: 13 March 202012 October 2025

Ik raakte geïnteresseerd over dit boek omdat er een foto van een Javaanse vrouw op de boekomslag staat, wat me doet denken aan mijn geboorteland, al ben ik Read more

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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