Best Books of 2018

As I've already noted in my last post 'My 2018 in Books' (See post here), I am super proud of having achieved my reading goal, and exceeding it by reading 56 books. Congratulations to all those in similar positions! 😁 But what were my favourites of those 56? It's so hard to choose, but I…

My 2018 in Books

This time last year I did this same post for books I read in 2017 on my previous blog Becky in China. Then I set myself a reading goal of 30 books for the year, and surprised myself by surpassing it and reading 34. This year, I decided to challenge myself, not only to see…

Book Review: First They Killed My Father

Title: First They Killed My Father Author: Loung Ung Genre: Memoir Material source: iBooks My rating: 5 / 5 🌟 About the book:Loung Ung and her family lived a life of relative privilege in Phonm Penh, the capital of Cambodia. She remembers a happy childhood spent in their city apartment with her three sisters and…

Book Review: Born A Crime

Title: Born A Crime Author: Trevor Noah Genre: Autobiography/memoir Material source: iBooks My rating: 5 / 5 🌟 About the book:Trevor Noah grew up as a coloured boy in South Africa during a time when having mixed parents was illegal. Growing up with a Swiss father and a Xhosa mother during apartheid meant risking imprisonment…

Book Review:The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Title: The Tattooist of Auschwitz Author: Heather Morris Genre: Memoir / Biography Material source: iBooks My rating: 5 / 5 🌟 About the book:Lale Sokolov was born in Slovakia, and when the Germans invaded and requested volunteers over the age of eighteen to work, Lale found himself at Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, believing that…

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!Thank you to all who follow my small corner of the Internet, and for reading what I post. This is the first Christmas I have spent in the UK for 3 years, and though my parents are in their Canadian home for the holidays, I will be spending it with other family here. I…