Bookstr’s Three To Read This Week 03/05/2020

Bookstr’s Three To Read This Week 03/05/2020

Recommendations

Welcome back, book lovers! It is that time of the week again and I have three amazing new books for your reading pleasure! As ever, we have a Hot Pick, a Coffee Shop Read, and a Dark Horse. Let’s get to it. HOT PICK the freedom artist  by Ben Okri image via amazon Synopsis: In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization that …

Bookstr’s Three to Read This Week 02/28/2020

Bookstr’s Three to Read This Week 02/28/2020

Recommendations

Welcome back book lovers! I’m here with your Three to Read for this week. We’ve got queer romance, racial drama, and graphic fantasy fare. Let’s dig in!   Hot Pick Red Rising: Sons of ares, vol 2: wrath By Pierce Brown Synopsis: The world of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising expands further in the next installment of the Sons of Ares storyline. Fitchner’s quest for revenge continues as he and the other Sons of Ares seek out the Golds who have wronged his family. But actions come with repercussions and an elaborate game of cat and mouse is on. A battle …

Bookstr’s Three to Read This Week 02/21/2020

Bookstr’s Three to Read This Week 02/21/2020

Book Culture

Hello, book lovers and welcome back! If you’ve made yourself sick with discount Valentine’s chocolate, we’ve got just the remedy for you. Pick up one (or all) of our Three to Read picks for this week and forget about your far-from-romantic sugar crash.   Hot pick What kind of girl by Alyssa Sheinmel   Synopsis: Girl In Pieces meets Moxie in this unflinching exploration of the many forms of abuse society inflicts upon women, and the strength it takes to rise above it all to claim your worth. The girls at North Bay Academy are taking sides. It all started when Mike Parker’s …

Bookstr’s Week in Review ICYMI

Bookstr’s Week in Review ICYMI

It’s finally February. Regardless of the January black hole, I am back and here to fill you in on all that you’ve missed this week. We’ve been moving office so I’m coming at you from a stack of books as my seat. Ok I lie I have a chair, but I WISH I had a book throne. Famous ladies It was a big week for the girls, with some brilliant women celebrating a myriad of really good stuff. Michelle Obama can add Grammy Winner to her list of accolades (and tinder bio), after the Becoming audiobook took home an award. …

Scott Eastwood’s Sultry Voice Brings Blakely Romance Novel to Life

Scott Eastwood’s Sultry Voice Brings Blakely Romance Novel to Life

Book Culture

Earlier this week, Audible Escape released their newest original starring Scott Eastwood and since then, I’ve had the chance to actually give it a listen (a read?? a read-listen??) P.S. It’s Always Been You is an Audible Original from #1 New York Times bestselling romance author Lauren Blakely. Part 1 did as most do by introducing us to the story’s key players, setting the scene for things to come and giving the reader/listener a hook. The beginning of Hunter and Presley’s story, to be continued in Part 2&3 in the coming weeks, lets us into the very start of their …