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Dear FictionAddicts, I can hardly believe 2017 is 80% complete. It’s true what they say, ‘Time waits for no man” ( and woman too). Well in a way I’m glad the year is running out. There were some high points in the year and some really bad low points. I’m hoping the new year will bring best things to all of us. I’m sure we had fun reading Paula Hawkins’ thriller, Into the water.  Truth be told, I’ve not read even 50 pages of the book yet (thanks to work and other pressing commitments)but the little I’ve read tells me it’s sure to keep one on the edge. It literally gives me the chills. This month we’ll read Attachments by Rainbow Rowell: Film critic Beth and copy editor Jennifer are best of friend and coworkers at Omaha Courier Newspaper. In their emails, they both exchange witty banter, jokes and an underlying affection to help them get through their frustrations in life and love. Jennifer is married to a hig

Helloooo Fiction Addicts reading me from all over the world.  Happy Independence Celebrations Nigeria! May the labours of all our heroes past never be in vain. I trust we are all enjoying the holiday. As always, I’m sorry the post is one day late as a result of circumstances beyond my control. September was an awesome month for me and I’m sure you all had a September to remember. I really do hope you had loads of fun with the books of the last month. I particularly found them unputdownable. I always said to myself  until there were no chapters left. This month we will be reading Paula Hawkins’ INTO THE WATER . Paula Hawkins is the bestselling author of The Girl On the Train which  was adapted for the screen with the same title. Into the Water : Women in a small British town have been downing since 1679 at a place popularly known as the Drowning Pool. Danielle Abbot, an award winning writer and photo

Fiction addicts get in here!!! It’s  Sweet September.  It’s the month of my birth and I’m super duper excited. #September11loading. Y’all have to just admit it, September is the best month of the year. I mean the month kicks off with a two day holiday in celebration of our Muslim folk which falls into a weekend and as Nigerians, we know how we do. These are the times I just love my country, we know how to make a good holiday.  I’m sure you had the best time with our book of the month for August. Gosh, Sophie Kinsella had me in stitches. I chose her because truth be told I personally needed some laughs because the last two months have not been the best for me but I’m really  optimistic everything will turn out right eventually because God’s in my boat. This month we’ll be reading two books, The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell and Big Girl by Danielle Steel. The Third Wife, by Lisa Jewell (2015) : Maya, 30 ye

Wow! I can hardly believe it’s August.  July was a good month in more ways than one and I’m sure you all had fun with last month’s book of the month. The book of the month for August is Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella. Emma Corrigan is a young lady with a huge heart, a nervous flyer and more than a few secrets. Sitting on a turbulent plane and thinking it might be her last moments, she starts spewing her secrets with reckless abandon to the American gentleman sitting next to her on the plane, but she’s too frightened to even notice. She tells him all her fibs about her size, how she is not sure she has a g-spot, how the coffee at work is horrible, how she once threw a trouble client file in the bin, just to mention a few. She survives the turbulence and finds out the next day at work that the American from the plane is her new boss at the mega corporation which she works for. She soon realizes that he remembers everything she said on the flight . Things could

Fiction addicts get in here!!! It's  a new month and we are done with the first half of the year. We may not have met our targets and goals for the first half of the year but surely we made some progress and we should be thankful for that. Anyone notice how it's always raining these days? Well I love it when it rains. It's a good time to snuggle up in bed with a good book and several cups of coffee. Unfortunately I'm writing this post at my desk in the office, therefore perish every thought of snuggling up in bed. The books of  the  month of July are After You by Jojo Moyes and Hedge Fund Wives  by Tatiana Boncompagni. After You by Jojo Moyes is the sequel to Me before You which we read in February and it takes off soon after Me before You ended. Lou's taken a job in an Irish themed bar at the airport. She's also bought a flat with some of the money Will left her. After having drank so much wine , one night she climbs to the roof top of

Happy “not so” new month fiction addicts. You can’t begin to imagine how so unhappy and sorry I am for not having posted the book for the month.  My day job that’s fast becoming my 24hr job is responsible for this. Being a lawyer  takes up so much time and the results can be sometimes annoying. Well for now it pays the bills. Shall I complain? I think not so. I’m pretty sure we had double the fun reading the books of the previous month. The book of this month is long overdue and I’m terribly sorry being late on this post. But you know the saying better late than never is also applicable. This month we’ll be reading A Sudden Change of Heart by Brabara Taylor Bradford About the book: Laura Valiant  and Claire Benson have known each other since childhood and spent their girlhood summers together on Laura’s farm in Connecticut. Many years later both women become successful, wealthy and happy. Laura ‘s married to

Cheers to the new month Fictionaddicts! April was such a fantastic month. I had one of the best holidays and I’m sure we all put the Easter holidays to good use by spending quality time with family, friends, loved ones and some good books. Well it’s May Day today.  Happy May Day!!!! It’s a holiday preceded by a weekend and what better day to start reading a new book (*winks*). I’m particularly happy because I get to spend the whole day reading. NO WORK DEADLINES whatsoever. This month we’ll be reading not one book, but two books! Drumroll pleaseeee…. 1.      The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella 2.       One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell.  So, I guess we are all in for double the fun and enjoyment! The Undomestic Goddess: Miss Samantha Sweeting is a workaholic lawyer in London on her way to becoming Partner at Carter Spink. She has put in seven years of determination, hard work, billable hours at the firm and practically put other aspect of

World Book Day is a day set aside by the United Nations Educational, Sceintific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing and copyright. It is celebrated annually on  23 rd April. The importance of reading can’t be over emphasized on a day like this. Reading exposes the reader to a world of imagination and communication. It is by reading that one can learn and gain experience and knowledge. Reading helps improve understanding and exposes the reader to new things and ideas. Little wonder it is then that once we learn to read, we just have an insatiable desire to go on and never stop. It is important to introduce kids to reading at an early age particularly the formative years. Researchers have found that little kids who are read to, have better activated mental imagery and understanding which are key to development of language and literacy. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.” – Geroge R.R.

C lassics in literature are those works which have somehow found a way to stand the test of time. In fact it seems that no matter how many decades or centuries ago they were first published, they never go out of style.I happened to be curious enough to find out what qualifies a work of fiction as classic. I discovered that there are diverse opinions on the subject.  Some persons are of the opinion that what qualifies as a classic is decided by the bookstore owner, librarian and so on. Another school of thought opined that any book published before 1960 is a classic. According to Esther Lombardi,  About.com’s resident classics literature guide, “A classic usually expresses some artistic quality—an expression of life, truth and beauty. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work’s not a classic. A classic has a c

Hey fiction addicts !!! Welcome to April. In some other parts of the world it's spring. But here in Nigeria, where I come from it’s ….……. Oh, well I don’t even know what season we are in. I just know that the weather is terribly hot and the sun is scorching. I can’t wait for the rainy season, so I can have a hot cup of coffee and snuggle up with lots of books. Anyways I hope you enjoyed the last book of the month and as you know it’s that time of the month when we unveil the book of the month. The book of the month for April is The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout published in March 2013 by Random House Publishers.  The Burgess boys , Jim and Bob are on the verge of a mid life crisis. Both are lawyers practicing in New York . They are however remembered in their hometown for the accident caused by Bob that killed their father and changed their lives forever. Their sister Susan, stayed back in their hometo

How shall I begin to tell you about the books which when you start reading, you’ll never be able to  stop until you’re done?  Er,  maybe this can help. Some books are just that. #Unputdownable. When you are reading one of these you just keep going, and saying to yourself, “Just one more chapter”, till you are done reading the book. Ok . I’ll get to it already. Here’s my list of top 15 Unputdownable novels.  1 John Grisham’s Sycamore Row is a direct sequel to his first novel, A Time to Kill and was originally published by  Doubleday in October 2013. Seth Hubbard wealthy lumber businessman and recluse is dying of cancer.  He eventually takes his own life by hanging himself on his property but not before writing a will in his own hand and  sending same to Jack Briggance with orders to defend it at all costs. The will left the largest fortune ever in the history of Ford County  to Mr Hubbard’s