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Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor (2009)

The Housekeeper and the Professor (博士の愛した数式, hakase no ai shita suushiki) (literally "The Professor's Beloved …

Review of 'The Housekeeper and the Professor' on 'Goodreads'

Feel good book.
Profesors, kura atmiņa pēc negadījuma cietusi, un vins spēj atcerēties tikai pēdējās 80 minutes. Bet mīl skaitļus un matemātiskas mīklas. Jāizlasa!

Ali Hazelwood: The love hypothesis (Paperback, 2021, Berkley)

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best …

Review of 'The love hypothesis' on 'Goodreads'

Read this just to keep in track with the stuff my daughter reads. One of the kind of those books where you know who will be together from the first chapter. The background info and setting was a nice one though, thus 3 stars not 1. Academia and sexual harassment: educative stuff about not keeping quiet.

reviewed The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy)

Jenny Han: The Summer I Turned Pretty (Paperback, 2009, Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer …

Review of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' on 'Goodreads'

The first of the series was almost readable but each of the next got worse and worse. Nothing in the plot. Sorry, kid. Discouraged my daughter from reading them. (I serve as a recommender/ screener of books, this was an unlucky choice of her)