The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | Review

March 5, 2020March 3, 2020 ~ acosyreader ~ Leave a comment

What a joy it is to pick up a book you know to be much-loved, and generally well received, and feel the same genuine delight within its pages. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was that book for me, through and through. I had seen it everywhere, of course heard about the movie (no, … Continue reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | Review

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz | Review

January 15, 2020 ~ acosyreader ~ 2 Comments

My final read for 2019 and boy was it a great one! For something different, I listened to the audiobook of this (through my local library using the Libby app), read by Lin Manuel Miranda. BLURB Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe follows Aristotle through his somewhat lonely teenage years, but when … Continue reading Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz | Review

Island on the Edge of the World – Deborah Rodriguez | Review

Island on the Edge of the World by Deborah Rodriguez

November 15, 2019November 14, 2019 ~ acosyreader ~ 1 Comment

I'm delighted to be sharing my review this book as part of Penguin Random House's Blog Tour for it's Aussie release! I adored The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, so I was super excited to hear that Deborah Rodriguez was releasing another book this year and giving me another excuse to pick up one of her … Continue reading Island on the Edge of the World – Deborah Rodriguez | Review

Eggshell Skull – Bri Lee | Review

October 14, 2019October 13, 2019 ~ acosyreader ~ 2 Comments

Holy heck. What a book. I had heard rave reviews about this book almost everywhere I looked when it came out back in 2018, but it wasn't until Leigh Sales & Annabel Crabb were talking about it on their podcast, Chat 10 Looks 3, that I finally decided to pick it up off my shelf … Continue reading Eggshell Skull – Bri Lee | Review

Naturally Tan – Tan France | Review

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 ~ acosyreader ~ 1 Comment

If you're a fan of Netflix's Queer Eye reboot, you're probably aware that most of the Fab 5 have books out at the moment (except Bobby? Where are you, Bobby?). Naturally Tan is Tan France's memoir, and a fairly candid account of growing up in Yorkshire as a South Asian kid, right through to his building of a … Continue reading Naturally Tan – Tan France | Review

Vox – Christina Dalcher | Review

September 30, 2019September 29, 2019 ~ acosyreader ~ Leave a comment

Vox is a book reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale, set in a dystopian future in which females are limited to speaking only 100 words per day. The punishment for exceeding your daily word limit? A thousand volts of electricity coursing through your body thanks to the wristband locked on to you. But it wasn't just … Continue reading Vox – Christina Dalcher | Review

The Testaments – Margaret Atwood | Review

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 ~ acosyreader ~ 7 Comments

It's HEEEEEERE! The long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, THE TESTAMENTS, was finally released in to the world last Tuesday & I have had the great pleasure of reading it thanks to a review copy I received from Penguin Books Australia. THE TESTAMENTS picks up 15 years after the conclusion of it's prequel, and this … Continue reading The Testaments – Margaret Atwood | Review