Does My Head Look Big In This ? by Randa Abdel-Fattah

I have been wanting to read this book for a long time – mostly because the storyline interested me, and also partly because its set in Australia, which is always a comfort to me. The story covers a teenage girl who decides to start wearing the hijab (head scarf). Along with the usual teenage angst [...]

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

The author is a poet which explains a lot about this book. Its certainly very poetic, which made it slightly hard to for me stay focussed on it. I thought about giving up on it several times, but I was apparently in a persistent mood because I finished it. The storyline involves a child who [...]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

I had been told that this book was even better than The Kite Runner which I had really enjoyed. It certainly is an excellent book. It is the story of several women, growing up in Afghanistan through its most turbulent periods. It is, naturally, tragic and horrifying to read of the realities of that kind of [...]

The Choice by Nicholas Sparks

I requested this book from the library and then realised I’d already read it. It was the usual fare from Sparks, who writes solid, readable, dramatic books. In this one, the main character has to choose between the man next door whom she thinks she loves and the man she has been dating. Its the [...]

You Make Me Feel Like An Unnatural Woman (Diary of a New (Older) Mother) by Judith Newman

This is the story of a New York mother who has been through all the fertility treatments to have children. She ends up with twins, and is not quite sure she is really cut out to be a mother. Its very very very funny, assuming you can find humour in her being disinterested in her [...]