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Dear FictionAddicts,   Welcome to F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y. It took forever to get here, like it was travelling from some very far off planet! Well what do you expect of the month of love? ☺. Ain’t no hurrying love... May true love find us, all. I hope you enjoyed the last book of the month and as you know it’s time to unveil the books of the month. I had in the past promised that we will read more Nigerian authors from time to time and in keeping that promise, this month we are adding a new author, Abi Dare and a genre new to this blog- African Literature. This month’s books of the month are The Girl WithThe Louding Voice by Abi Dare and The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a a “louding voice”- the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, A...

Dear FictionAddicts, Five, Four, Three, Two, One!!!!, Happy (Not)So New Year! (the year is already Seven days old but…). Does anyone wonder where the holidays went so quickly…? Sigh. Now it’s back to the trenches, more goals to set and more targets to meet and even more deadly deadlines. I want to quickly say that I’m glad we made it into the new year. It is my prayer that this year counts for you all in every positive way possible. Great milestones achieved with less stress. May the grace of God be more than sufficient for US all this year. Amen. That said, this month we will read, The Lying Game by Ruth Ware and The Guardians by John Grisham. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware   Four women have been carrying a terrible secret since their boarding school days and that secret is about to be literally unearthed. The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It’s just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads...

Dear FictionAddicts, Cheers to the new month, it’s A-U-G-U-S-T!!! Happy new month folks. July was a good month in more ways than one and I’m sure you all had fun with last month’s books of the month. Let’s get to the business for the day. This month we’ll read    Give Me Your Hand by Megan E. Abbot  and The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Give Me Your Hand by Megan E. Abbot A life-changing secret destroys an unlikely friendship in the magnetic psychological thriller. Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane’s academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she’s put Diane behind her forever and she’s begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discov...

Dear FictionAddicts, It’s raining, it's pouring…Raining cats and dogs and shall I say it’s the best time of the year for me. I just want to take a break from all the hassles of work and adult life, snuggle in bed with a large mug of coffee and several books till the rains go away. Boy do I love me some rain! This month we’ll read, The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine and How to Walk Away by Katherine Center . The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine, 2017 Amber Patterson is fed up. She is tired of being a nobody: a plain invisible woman who bends into the background. She deserves more - a life of money and power like the blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne- a socialite and philanthropist – and her business mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale. Amber’s envy could eat her alive… if she didn’t have a plan. Amber uses Daphne...

Dear Fiction Addicts, Welcome to July! The first half of the year is gone and if we haven’t hit our targets yet, we still have time to put in effort and set the ball in motion. Take that first step and keep moving. Remember to work smart and not hard. June had its share of woes and sadness. The killings in Jos, Plateau State and the petrol tanker explosion on Micheal Otedola Bridge, along Lagos Ibadan Expressway, Lagos that claimed the lives of so many Nigerians in the last month is just very sad. Our prayers are with those who lost loved ones in these ugly incidents. This month we will read An American Marriage by Tayari Jones and The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins. The Girl On the Train was a special request by one of our readers -@a_jokeade. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting caree...

Cheers to the new month FictionAddicts! I’m lost for words today so I’ll just get to the point. I’m sorry the post is late. Again. Man proposes, God disposes things and I’m just glad I can even write this post. This month I’ve chosen two novels that will be adapted to television series. The idea is to finish reading the book before the series start airing on TV.   That way we’ll be able to understand the story line and even pick out parts of the series that deviate from the plot in the book! Oh not forgetting we’ll be able to do a comparison between the book and the Tv series. So, this month we’ll read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn and Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta. Sharp Obejects by Gillian Flynn (2006) : Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment :   s he must return to her tiny hometown to   cover the murder of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken a work to her neurotic, hyp...

Dear Fiction Addicts, By now you know I love holidays and I love it even more when the month begins with a holiday. Happy Easter! I’m so happy that death could not hold my Saviour down and he lives. Wow! It’s April already and I can’t wait to unveil the books for this month. I’m quite sure you had a memorable time with the books of this months and I’m thinking of pushing the limits this month because well…. Just because I know WE CAN!!! This  April we’ll be reading not one. Not two but three books. Yes I know WE CAN. So here’s the reading list for this month 1 The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware Lo Backlock , a Journalist who writes for a travel magazine  has just been given an assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered selected guests jovial in the picturesque North Sea. At first Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the parties are sparklin...