Author: knittedpages
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, A poignant read | Book Review
Published by Random House India Genre – Historical Fiction Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution. A powerful new novel–set in both India and America–that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death. Growing up in Calcutta, born…
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My Bucket List || Life
A Bucket List means different things to different people. To me, a Bucket List is a list of things I want to do before I die. I don’t know whether the experiences I hope to have and things I wish to do before I die will eventually end up as a happy memory or not…
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The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey | Book Review
Published by Josie Jaffrey Genre – Young Adult, Paranormal, Dystopia, Fantasy In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well.Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not…
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My trip to Agra + Tips for when you visit || Travel
As the year draws to an end, I realize that one of my highlights of 2018 will be the trip to Agra, I took with my friends. Scroll on to read to read all about it and plus some great tips for when you visit! We had been thinking about going somewhere on a one…
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What to do first: Read the Book or Watch the movie?
For a bookworm like me, on screen adaptations of books are always a tricky thing. They can be great if done right or the worst thing ever to happen to a book if not. But that’s not the only tricky part about book adaptations. For me, it’s whether to watch the movie before or after…
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Book Review
Published by Walker Books Genre – Young Adult, Contemporary Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a…
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Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi || Book Review
Published by Josie Jaffrey Genre – Young Adult, Dystopia, PFantasy Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares.…
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie |Book Review
Published by – Little, Brown Books Genre – Contemporary, Young Adult, Humor Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school…
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Spoilers- Unspeakable things or Wrongly Defamed? | Discussion
“Spoilers ” A dirty word for some, while for others, a way to quench the thirst for knowing what happens next. Dictionary.com defines a spoiler as “ information about a plot or event in a movie, book, or show that may spoil the suspense or surprise”. Nowadays though, the meaning of the word encompasses a…
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Book Review: You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
Published by Knopf Genre – Young Adult, Contemporary When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural.Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up…
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