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My Fiction Books of 2020

On December 25, 2020December 14, 2020 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

Merry Christmas!!! I hope you are having a wonderful time with your loved ones, even if due to circumstances known, it has to be done remotely. Weird year as it was it is finally time to sum things up and see the back of it! When the pandemic hit Europe I fell into a complete …

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Q3 2020 round-up

On October 28, 2020December 14, 2020 By bookskepticIn ThoughtsLeave a comment

Yes, I know I am pretty much a month late for the Q3 round-up party. What can I say? The pandemic has messed up with my internal calendar and my brain still thinks it is July, despite the weather trying its best to bring me to reality. Another factor may be that I was lucky …

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Hello Mum – Bernardine Evaristo

On August 22, 2020August 9, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews3 Comments

It's a short story, or a novella, that I bought already during the lockdown, after reading the brilliant Girl, Woman, Other. I read it in just over an hour because once you pick it up it's hard to put down. The book is a letter, written by Jerome, a black teenager, to his mother. It may …

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