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Book Blog by Heena Rathore-Pardeshi
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Book Review: Operation Dragonhead (PEOPLE MAKING DANGER) by Adam Fike
Book Details: Author: Adam Fike Release Date: 19 March, 2021Series: PEOPLE MAKING DANGERGenre: Science-Fiction, SatireFormat: E-book Pages: 78 pagesPublisher: –Blurb:MID-CENTURY SCI-FI SATIRE – Early one morning at the end of the 1950s, an impressive, highly coordinated Army training…
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Monthly Reading Wrap-Up: August 2025
While Elif Shafak’s writing proved quite disappointing, Augustina Bazterrica’s phenomenal storytelling and world-building completely made up for it. I finally managed to finish the 3rd book in Brandon Sanderson’s epic saga Mistborn (with over 2000+ pages…
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Book Review: Italian by Default by M.J. Walker
Book Details: Author: MJ WalkerRelease Date: 25 July, 2025Series:Genre: Memoir, Women’s LiteratureFormat: E-book Pages: 283 pagesPublisher: –Blurb:AN ADOPTION REUNION – based on a true story –Meet Polly, her Italian husband Joe and his identical twin brother Cicero. Polly…
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Book Review: Into the Mountains: Exploring China’s Sacred Daoist Peaks by Debra Liu
Book Details: Author: Debra Liu Release Date: 8 July, 2025Series:Genre: Nature Writing, Memoir, PhilosophicalFormat: E-book Pages: 232 pagesPublisher: Earnshaw Books LtdBlurb:In a journey of discovery through China’s sacred mountains, traversing the hidden caves of Huashan, freshwater pools where…
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Book Review: Burn My Shadow Issue #2 by Sebastiano Lanza
Book Details: Author: Sebastiano Lanza Release Date: September 22, 2025Series: Burn My Shadow (Book 2)Genre: Graphic NovelFormat: E-book Pages: under 100 pagesPublisher: Markosia EnterprisesBlurb:In Leipzig, Tharmas devises a plan to kidnap Thomas Crowley. To do so, he’ll need…
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