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Dive into your weekend with a splash with these books🌊🌊🌊🌊 ARSENIC AND ADOBO BY MIA P MANANSALA 📚 Book synopsis: "Arsenic and Adobo" is a cozy mystery novel,It's the first book in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series, featuring a Filipino-American amateur detective.The story combines elements of Filipino culture, food, and a murder mystery. If you enjoy culinary-themed mysteries with diverse characters, you might find this book quite engaging🤩 📚 Genre : Mystery   LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY BY BONNIE GARMUS 📚 Book synopsis : Lessons in Chemistry is a novel about women’s lives, careers, and struggle for empowerment in the late 50s and early 60s. It follows the story of Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist who is forced to become a television chef. 📚 Genre : Historical Fiction VERA'S WONG UNSOLICITED ADVICE FOR MURDERERS BY JESSE Q SUTANTO 📚 Book synopsis : The novel follows Vera Wong, a lonely widow living in San Francisco’s Chinatown who wak

Book Review Rundown✨✨ UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR BY TJ KLUNE 📚Book synopsis : It tells the story of Wallace Price, a high-powered attorney who unexpectedly dies and finds himself stuck in a mysterious tea shop at the crossroads between life and death. There, he meets Hugo, the reaper tasked with guiding souls to the afterlife, and a group of quirky, otherworldly characters. As Wallace confronts his past and unravels the secrets of the tea shop, he discovers profound lessons about life, love, and the importance of living authentically. The novel explores themes of acceptance, forgiveness, and the transformative power of human connections. 📚Genre :Contemporary fantasy 📚 thoughts&opinions : This book gave a lot of meaning to death and grief, death generally is a turnoff for almost everyone but this book did not focus on the sadness, it focused on the beauty of a new beginning like the one CAMERON had, like NANCY and also like WALLACE. This book was beautiful i

"Let's give a thunderous round of applause to our literary luminary!" 📚👏 Mia P. Manansala is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass woman. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.  A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrastibaking, playing JRPGs and dating sims, reading cozy mysteries and diverse romance, and cuddling her dogs Gumiho and Max Power. ​Her debut novel, ARSENIC AND ADOBO, came out May 4, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series. The sequel, HOMICIDE AND HALO-HALO, is out now. KEEP GOING GIRL👏👏👏 To check last week edition of #AuthorOfTheWeek check  here

  Book Recommendation Friday🥰🤗❤ 1. "The Bride Test" by Helen Hoang: - Genre : Romance - Synopsis : Khai, a young man with autism, believes he is incapable of love. His mother seeks to find him a suitable wife in Vietnam, leading to a heartwarming romance. 2. "The Nanny" by Lana Ferguson:  - Genre : Romance - Synopsis : Cassie, facing financial difficulties, becomes a nanny for Aiden Reid's daughter. Little does she know, Aiden is not a stranger, and her past comes back to haunt her.   3. "Under the Whispering Door" by TJ Klune: - Genre : Fantasy - Synopsis : Wallace, unsure if he's dead, encounters a reaper and a peculiar tea shop owner. He embarks on a journey to make the most of his remaining time in the afterlife. 4. "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren: - Genre : Memoir - Synopsis : Hope Jahren's memoir takes you through her childhood, her love for science, and her experiences in her f

BOOK REVIEW 🥳🥳 I38 DATES:THE TRUE STORY OF ONE WOMAN SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING BY REBEKAH CAMPBELL 📚 Genres : Nonfiction||Memoir||Romance 📚 Book Synopsis : On the outside, Rebekah Campbell has an enviable life. She is founder of hot Sydney startup Posse.com, writes a popular blog and gives inspirational talks at conferences for female entrepreneurs But, She wants love. She wants a family. Her epic journey will take her on dates with 138 different men in Sydney, New York and San Francisco, while at the same time confronting the immense challenges of launching a business. She'll face exhaustion, humiliation and heartbreak; she'll meet some strange and dangerous characters. And she will strip herself of the ego and expectations that have been holding her back. She will not stop. What will it take to follow your dream? For Rebekah Campbell, it took 138 dates! 📚 Thoughts and Opinions: I love this book so much, I literally finished it in one day 🤩. Whe

AUTHOR OF THE WEEK🥳🥳🥳 Let's support authors one at a time and this week, I am supporting CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS.  Candice Carty-Williams (born 21 July 1989) is a British writer, best known for her 2019 debut novel, Queenie.[2] She has written for publications including The Guardian, i-D, Vogue, The Sunday Times, BEAT Magazine, and Black Ballad,and is a contributor to the anthology New Daughters of Africa (2019), edited by Margaret Busby. Her books include; 📚Queenie  📚People person 📚Nothing hill carnival:A westside story  📚Empress and Aniya KEEP GOING GIRL 💃🥳❤ #ilovebooks  #AuthorOfTheWeek 

AUTHOR OF THE WEEK🥳🥳 Jesse Q Sutanto; My shoutout this week goes to you❤📚 If you don't know who @Jesse Q Sutanto keep reading!  @Jesse Q. Sutanto is a Chinese-Indonesian author. As of 2022, she has published six novels for adults, young adults, and middle grade readers.  She is most famous for her novel Dial A for Aunties, which won the 2021 Comedy Women in Print Prize and has been optioned for a film by Netflix. Her novels include: Dial A for Aunties (2021) The Obsession (2021) Four Aunties and a Wedding (2022) The New Girl (2022) Well, That Was Unexpected (2022) Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit (2022) Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) I'm Not Done With You Yet Theo Tan and the Iron Fan  Keep going girl 🤗🤗📚  #ilovebooks   #JesseQSutanto #authoroftheweek

#bookrec NEARLY ALL THE MEN IN LAGOS ARE MAD  DESCRIPTION: A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity with the women who have survived romantic relationships with men in Lagos It deftly analyses the various archetypes women are likely to encounter in the dating scene in the city – from serial cheaters, to mummy’s boys, from the ‘fake it till you make it’ adherents to the ones who can’t commit. This book underscores with wit, humour, wisdom, and sensitivity the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa’s craziest city that will prove universal and illuminating. #Bookrec THE HEART PRINCIPLE BY HELEN HOANG  DESCRIPTION: When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her long-time boyfriend announces that he wants an open relationship before making