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A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

February 26, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

This debut novel follows a family forced out of their home in Palestine through their lives in New York. A Woman is No Man focuses on three generations of women in the Ra’ad family: Fareeda, the matriarch; Isra, her daughter-in-law; and Deya, Isra’s eldest daughter. We meet Isra when she is seventeen years old and living in Palestine. Her parents have arranged her marriage to a Palestinian refugee living in Brooklyn. Isra has hopes of a better life with this new family. She is an avid […]

The Main Line continues to get dumped on

Wicked by Sara Shepard

January 29, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

The Pretty Little Liars series is marketed as Young Adult mystery, but I think that it may have been wrongly classified. Five books in, I am convinced that the only explanation for the behavior of many of the characters in the books is possession by evil spirits. Wicked is a continuation of the story begun in Pretty Little Liars. The first four books solve the mystery of the identity of ‘A’, a malevolent ghoul embodied by a superficial, text-obsessed teenage girl. Wicked is the fifth installment of this […]

A Whole lot of lying

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Flawless by Sara Shepard

Perfect by Sara Shepard

Unbelievable by Sara Shepard

January 25, 2019 by Manimama 1 Comment

I’ve never seen this television show. My daughter got these books from a friend but hasn’t gotten around to reading them so I swiped them from her bookshelf. The first book in the series is Pretty Little Liars. It introduces the characters and plot of the following books. The story takes place in the Northwest Philadelphia suburbs and follows four high school juniors as they navigate the new school year, teenage drama, and the mysterious notes and text messages that are being sent to them from […]

Ugh

A Simple Favor by Darcy Bell

January 21, 2019 by Manimama 1 Comment

I wanted to like this book. I haven’t seen the movie, but reviews of the film made it sound campy and fun. I’m usually too wimpy to watch thrillers but I do enjoy reading them, so I thought I’d try the book instead. I have never encountered a protagonist I found more off-putting than Stephanie. I know that the author was intending this to some extent, but the other narrative voices are not much better. I certainly don’t think that an unlikable narrator is such […]

GRRM procrastinates again

Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin

January 20, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

I should have realized what I was getting into. I started reading Game Of Thrones just before the HBO series began. I’ve read each of the books in the series at least twice. My husband bought me Fire and Blood for Christmas and it had been a long time since I had read anything by GRRM, so I dove right in. Firstly, let me say that I am always impressed by the world-building that is done by fantasy authors. I can’t fathom the amount of time […]

I joined the crowd

Educated by Tara Westover

January 20, 2019 by Manimama 1 Comment

I received this book for Christmas after having seen a lot of hype around it on various sites. I tend to read mostly fiction and would not likely have bought this book for myself. Reading it, though, I found myself wondering how much of this memoir could be real. Don’t get me wrong- I absolutely believe that Tara Westover lived through the events of the book. I believe the off-grid existence, and the doomsday prepping, and the abuse. What I had trouble reconciling myself to […]

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