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Little Fires Everywhere
Pages: 336 📖 Year Published: 2017 🗓️ Days to Complete: 11 🕰️ Author: Celeste Ng (pronounced "ing") was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in the setting of this novel, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Ng attended Harvard and the University of Michigan. She has written three novels. Each have been New York Times bestsellers and two of her three have been translated into more than 30 other languages. Ng currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband. Three words
Dec 1, 20251 min read


Customs
Marco and I walk the long hallways of O’Hare airport and round the many corners before arriving at the back of the customs line. We groan as we realize how long we have to wait. Maybe 20 minutes passes and my dad texts my brother and me. He tells us that Mom fainted at a funeral she was attending and he is on his way to see her in the hospital. His texts are always so formal, like an email at work. I scoff and thank him for the update. My brother reminds him to keep us update
Oct 28, 20254 min read


The Painted Girls
Pages: 390 📖 Year Published: 2013 Days to Complete: 14 Author: Cathy Marie Buchanan has written three novels with this being her second. She was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario and attended Western University in London, Ontario. She now lives in Toronto and has three sons. Three words to describe this read: Revealing - While I’ve often imagined what life might have been like for Parisians in the late 1800s, I never would have imagined how ruthless life for young ballerinas ma
Oct 1, 20251 min read


Pride and Prejudice
Pages: 181 📖 Year Published: 1831 🕰️ Days to Complete: 32 Author: Jane Austen was born in the south of England in 1775. Austen was the youngest of 7 children. She and her sister attended schools from time to time, including Oxford, but most of her education came from reading. Austen had written most of her more successful works prior to the age of 22, was not published until she was 35, and did not enjoy much recognition during her life. She died at the age of 41 in the sam
Sep 1, 20252 min read


The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
Pages: 483 📖 Year Published: 1993 🕰️ Days to Complete: 16 Author: Oscar Hiljuelos was an American author of Cuban descent most known for his second novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love . He was born in New York City in 1951 and attended schools in the city throughout his entire education. He worked in advertising for some time before publishing his first novel Our House in the Last World which won the Rome Prize. Hijuelos taught at Hofstra and Duke University and died
Apr 1, 20252 min read





