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    Someone Else's Shoes | Jojo Moyes | Book Review

    Someone Else’s Shoes is a lovable story with a unique & original plot that makes for a light, enjoyable read. It has two stories running in parallel – revolving around the lives of the two protagonists, Sam & Nisha – which converge together resulting in some utmost funny & boisterous situations.

    Sam Kemp is a middle aged woman, leading a mundane middle-class life – never quite free from worrying about bills, job, boss and so on. Her husband Phil has lost his job and going through a rough patch of depression. As a result, she is compelled to run the household single handedly.

    Nisha Cantor on the other hand is quite the opposite. Married to a rich man Carl, she was leading a luxurious …

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    Vinyl Resting Place

    Vinyl Resting Place | Book Review | Olivia Blacke

    I picked up this book at a time when some major personal aspects of my life were keeping me busy. No wonder, this is probably the longest I have taken to complete a book, all of 300 pages! Getting to the book, Vinyl Resting Place is best described as a cozy mystery and is the first in the Record Shop Mysteries series by Olivia Blacke. To be honest, I find such a sub-genre weird, but it just implies – the crime in such books is treated lightly. And so is the case here. I am not sure I would have picked this up had I known this beforehand.

    The setting of the book is in a small town Cedar River

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    Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

    Finlay Donovan Is Killing It | Book Review | Elle Cosimano

    Book #1 of the Finlay Donovan series introduces Finlay Donovan alongside other recurring characters who are sure to endear themselves to the reader. A single mom of two adorable kids Delia & Zach, Finlay Donovan is struggling to write her novel with the deadline looming, 2 young kids needing her, unpaid bills and a babysitter fired by her ex husband.

    Finlay Donovan Is Killing It hits the perfect note right from the word go with some utterly funny situational comic scenes and a wacky protagonist fighting her way through her daily grind. A discussion of her plot for the new novel with her agent is overheard by a by-sitter who mistakes Finlay for a contract killer & hands …

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    One Good Deed

    One Good Deed | Aloysius Archer Series | David Baldacci

    The first book of a new series, a new character – Aloysius Archer. Having already read the two sequels, I can assure you, this is a character that shall stay with you for long. I truly have enjoyed the Aloysius Archer Series to the core.

    Back from war & a subsequent imprisonment for a crime he hadn’t committed, Aloysius Archer finds himself in Poca City serving a 3 year parole. On a casual visit to the bar, he crosses paths with Hank Pittleman – a wealthy individual who virtually owns majority of Poca. The casual small talk lands Archer an assignment to retrieve for Pittleman the loan collateral from his rival Lucas Tuttle. And thereon, the story effortlessly draws you …

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    BookForums Awards 2022

    2022 BookForums Winners

    Top 3 Books Of The Year

    Book Of The Year
    Carrie Soto Is Back (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
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    2nd Rank
    A Tidy Ending (Joanna Cannon) 🥈

    3rd Rank
    Dinner With The Schnabels (Toni Jordan)
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    Best Characters Of The Year

    Best Character
    Carrie Soto (Carrie Soto Is Back)

    Best Negative Character
    Linda Hammett (A Tidy Ending)

    Best Sequence Of The Year

    The Meet Cute Method (Chapter 7)
    Frankie George pretends to have lost her dog to initiate a Meet Cute

    All Time Best Book Entries

    The Maid (Nita Prose)🔰
    Carrie Soto Is Back (Taylor Jenkins Reid)🥇🔰
    Treasure Island (R.L. Stevenson)🔰

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    Our Missing Hearts

    Our Missing Hearts | Book Review | Celeste Ng

    Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng is a dystopia highlighting the discrimination & injustice against the Asian community in America. Set in the years of Crisis (recession), it quiet effectively points out how the Asians (in particular China) were blamed for the situation and how cruelly the political system wrongs them in it’s name. It’s main focus is PACT, a law enforced to protect American culture & tradition from these outsiders. In the name of PACT, children were taken from their families on slightest pretext – so as to guard them against such maligned, Anti-American views. And thereof, what the child & the families go through.

    The first bit of the book gets your attention with the poignant descriptions …

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