ashleyholstrom's Reviews (1.38k)

What a page-turner. And now I must read the sequel. IMMEDIATELY.

Really lovely, really moving.

Everyone go read this now, please. Even if you don't like baseball. Especially if you don't like baseball.

Saucy and beautiful and lonely and all of the things in my wheelhouse.

I'm grappling with how I feel about this book. The darkness was great, but some of it just didn't work. The twists were excellent and shocking — to the point I had to gasp and throw the book down and tell someone about what just happened — but the ending doesn't really hold up.

Hot damn is Adichie an amazing writer. Each of these short stories is so complex, and I felt like I was a character in every one. She deals with every sort of drama and romance and heartbreak there is in the world.

Part of my not-so-accidental month of feminist reading at Book Riot.

Well, this book just ruined my life in the best way.

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Doll. War. Ocean. Book. Field. The cover is cute and quirky, but the story is deep and beautiful.

Nao is planning her suicide. Her family is in shambles and the bullies at school are too much. Ruth is a writer across the ocean who walks the beach and stumbles upon a Hello Kitty lunchbox with a notebook inside. Nao’s diary.

We hear their very different stories as Ruth reads about and becomes obsessed with Nao’s life and begins questioning all sorts of deep things about life and death and war and love.

From Books I've Judged by Their Covers and Loved at Book Riot.