The Introverted Reader
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Hey there. I'm Masha. 22, an avid reader, writer, polyglot, and well, the list goes on and on. Here on my blog, I will be posting stuff about books and everything books! Who knows, you might even find what to read next.
The Introverted Reader
1M ago
Good evening everyone and happy new year. Its been a minute. I know! Life has been so busy and I have neglected this blog. I’m so sorry. Lo siento mucho.
But guess what?I’m back now! And I’ll be updating this blog once a week. On Fridays. As usual, It’ll be the usual bookish stuff. *grins* and a little bit on what’s going on in my life.
So let’s begin. Today’s review is on The Housemain by Frieda McFadden.
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“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh ..read more
The Introverted Reader
1y ago
TITLE: COUSIN CALLS
AUTHOR: ZEB HARADON
GENRE: MYSTERY, FICTION
PUBLISHED: AUGUST 27 2021
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A college student reluctantly attends a family chili cookout that turns into a never ending nightmare. A man desperate for job skills uses a brain implant to help him learn, but it malfunctions and leaves him sexually attracted to shadows. A private investigator is hired to discover who keeps befouling the walls of convenience store bathrooms. Two deer engaged in combat find that they are unable to unlock from one another’s antlers after the fight is over. A single mother spends 2020 battling an ev ..read more
The Introverted Reader
1y ago
Are you a reader, a book blogger or an aspiring writer? Then this post is for you!
So i just discovered this awesome site called Kindlepreneur. Kindlepreneur is coined from the name Kindle and Enterpreneur. It is basically a website that was created to help writers sell more book efficiently and effectively. On the website, there are a lot of marketing strategies and a lot of authors that have confirmed making use of these strategies and bringing their books to a new level.
So this website has incorporated a lot of things for everyone. As a writer, you can check through and see the strategies ..read more
The Introverted Reader
1y ago
Title: Hollow: a Love Like a Life
Author: Jazalyn
Genre: Poetry
Year: 2020
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A ghost spirit of dark’s universe falls in love with a ghost spirit of light’s universe, and while they cannot meet, for they wander around separate realms and spacetimes, they live their love through a secret and sacred interaction.
REVIEW
“What I love in you
Is that I am half
Without you;
You are my soul’s start
My heart’s end
But who I really am?”
This was a very different poem. It was very unique and written in a lonely kind of tone. It is basically about two lovers that can never be together. One is on the ..read more
The Introverted Reader
1y ago
qotd: What’s one thing you can’t live without?
Title: Rose: Future Heart
Author: Jazalyn
Genre: Poetry
Year: 2020
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A beautiful and charismatic but blowsy and lonely rose faces external turbulences and internal battles of life and love, but She overcomes them filtering the positiveness and the negativeness, and She becomes the future heart deep down inside She always was.
REVIEW
“This rose Is me: The future heart I always had.”
This was a very incredible poem. It discusses on love, and the feeling of loss. I loved the poems in it that discussed on how to deal with negativities in life.
It ..read more
The Introverted Reader
1y ago
Title: vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
Author: Jazalyn
Genre: Poetry
Year: 2020
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Three robotic viruses are released from unknown forces and compete with each other exposing crimes, with humanity’s scale of existence oscillating between total destruction and reinventing recovery.
A REVELATION of the THOUGHTS.
An AWAKENING for the HIDDEN reality.
A MADNESS pandemic.
A WAR of ESPIONAGE.
Whose VIRUS is which?
Is it too late for reinstating?
The PANIC button pushed.
An attempt to erase the MEMORIES.
Can an EVIL virus SAVE the world?
A post-apocalyptic techno thriller poetic novel that emulates psy ..read more
The Introverted Reader
2y ago
If you were to ask a Romance reader what there favorite romance book was, what do you think they would say? I guess, they would freeze, blush and gush about thousands of books that they conside their faves. Ha! That’s cliche, i know. But come to think of it. Have you ever wondered what the most romantic book is? Or are? Cos i bet there are tons out there.
Personally, no. Okay, maybe once or twice. But it just got stuck to my head and got me thinking. I’m not a fan of Romance but I have read quite a handful of intriguing romances.
Some are quite interesting without the cliche part and all that ..read more
The Introverted Reader
2y ago
Title: Shadow And Bone
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, YA
Published: June 5th, 2012
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
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Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key ..read more
The Introverted Reader
2y ago
Title: His Other Woman
Author: Louise Voss
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary-Thriller
Published: July 2nd, 2021
Publisher: Bookouture
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hat would you do if the love of your life forgot you… and met someone else?
I waved my husband goodbye at the airport, and he vanished without a trace. I sat awake, night after night, looking at photos of our family. I knew he would never leave us.
And then I found him.
Now he lives with the younger, beautiful woman he thinks he loves. And he doesn’t even recognise me.
Who will he choose? Can I forgive him? And will I ever be able to look into his eyes without ..read more
The Introverted Reader
2y ago
Title: The Clockmaker’s Wife
Author: Daisy Wood
Genre: Historical Fiction, Suspense
Published: July 7th, 2021
Publisher: Avon
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The world is at war. And time is running out…
London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming.
When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him. But her search will lead her into far darker places than she ever imagined…
New York, Present Day. When Ellie discover ..read more