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  Summary: The Scarlet Letter tells the story about Hester Prynne has a child out of wedlock when her husband isn't in town. When the society discovers this, she is branded with a scarlet A and she has to undergo public shaming. She refuses to tell anyone who the father of the child is. But then Roger Chillingworth arrives who the reader later discovers is Hester's husband, and he makes it his life goal to find out who the father of her child his.  Background: Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massuchusetts (so cool, right?). One of his ancestors, John Hathorne actually a lead judge in the Salem Witch Trials and that is why Nathaniel turned his surname from Hathorne to Hawthorne - so he could distance himself from that ancestor. After he graduated from Bowdoin College, he returned to Salem and that is where he wrote The Scarlet Letter in 1804. After the book was published, protests broke out in Salem as many of the inhabitants believed that the book portrayed t...

  Summary: Spin the Dawn has been described by some as a mixture of Project Runway and Mulan. It is about Maia Tamarin, a young girl who dreams of becoming the imperial tailor - as a woman, she knows that will never happen. But when an official of the emperor summons her sick father to take part in a competition for the position of imperial tailor, she disguises herself as her brother who came back from war. She knows she will put her life in danger by pretending to be a boy for she will be executed if her secret comes out, but she does it so her father won't have to do it. She has to take part in challenges against other tailors who are much more experienced than her. Secrets, lying, backstabbing and magic are in the air as she struggles with the complicated challenges. And to make matters worse, she grabs  the attention of the court magician - something you really don't want when you are in disguise. For the final challenge, she has to sow three gowns from the laughter of th...

  About The Book Series   Ready For The World: Driver’s Education Ready For The World: Driver’s Education follows the story of Brandon Delacruz, a fifteen-year-old Filipino American teenager trying to make his way through life during the late 1980s. What Brandon wants out of life is simple: a cool car, a chance to be one of the cool kids at school, and most of all, a cool girlfriend. But instead, all he has are his loving family and his lifelong friends, Josh and Ally, to help him get through the minefield of high school life.  As he looks for ways to get the car and status, Brandon fails to realize that the girl he’s been searching for has been there all along. But before he and Ally can explore a new relationship, a tragedy occurs that changes their lives. And now Brandon will have to find a way to balance his deep friendship with the excitement, trepidation, and complexity that young love brings...all while trying to keep his grades up. Ready For The World: Superstar T...

    Hey, lovely people! This post is a bit overdue, especially since it is already the 15th of August and I have already started to read some of the books on my August TBR. But anyway here we go.  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen So I'm reading this book with Brooke from  @whisperingwoman  as part of her Classics Club. It's such a great idea. Every week we read a certain amount of chapters together and then every week there is a resource pack with chapter summaries and analyses and extra reading material (usually academic articles). This is such a great way to read Jane Austen, because the language used in the book can sometimes feel intimidating and if you are not entirely sure what just happened in a chapter, the resource pack helps so much.  And we also have a Whatsapp group so we can encourage each other to keep on reading.  Book summary: I am sure most of you have either heard of Pride and Prejudice, watched the movie or read the book but for tha...

Hey beautiful people! I am currently hosting a buddy read. I promoted it on Instagram so you're welcome to comment on here or  contact me on Instagram or Pinterest. For those of you who don't know what a buddy read is, it is basically an online book club where people in the group read the same book together and encourage each other to read more and then when you finished reading it, you have an online discussion about the book.  So currently we have made a Whatsapp group to chat and get to know each other better and on which we could also talk to each other about the book we are going to read. Currently we are voting for a book and then we are going to start reading. So all this is very exciting and I would love for any of you also to join us. So please contact me if you are interested. Here is a link to my Buddy Read post on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CDEiabjAmJv/