Two novels old, Celeste Ng has beautifully created a home for small family dynamics, forming beautiful yet complex stories. Little Fires Everywhere is a novel about families, however big and small have their own way of loving each other, with their own past and complexities. It’s a story about human relations which are so obscure…
World Environment Day – Reading List
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on 5 June to raise global awareness regarding the environment. Its main aim is to take positive environmental action, protect nature and the planet Earth. It has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. Each year, WED has…
Book Review 22 – Ikigai : The Japenese Secret To A Long And Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver and Francesc Miralles
So let’s start with what IKIGAI means. IKIGAI means – Finding the meaning of one’s life. The happiness of always being busy. Reason for our being. Reason why we get up in the morning. The book is 10% about Ikigai and 90% of different things to do to make you live longer. Some of us…
Book Review 21 – P. S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
The second book is the famous trilogy of love stories and high school teenage drama, Jenny Han has become everyone’s favorite with her romantic fiction. With Netflix producing the sequel to the first movie To All The Boys I have Loved Before, the series has taken all hearts into motion. I read the first book…
Schizophrenia – Spread the awareness! – Reading List.
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that interferes with a person’s ability to feel, act and think. The exact cause of schizophrenia isn not known, but a combination of genetics, environment and altered brain chemistry and structure may play a role. It is characterised by thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch with reality,…
Book Review 20 – Camino Island by John Grisham
The story begins with a heist at the renowned Firestone Library of the Princeton University. Five people plan and miraculously execute the robbery of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original manuscripts from the secure vault of the library. Within a day or two, the FBI takes into custody two of the members. Out of the remaining three,…
Book Review 19 – Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
Our Chemical Hearts is a young adult fiction novel written by Krystal Sutherland. It is a typical high school story with not so typical characters and then the not so evident emotions of their hearts. When I started reading the novel I had a pre-assumed notion of what kind of a high school romance it…
Book Review 18 – Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a J. K. Rowling)
When I first read the Cormoran Strike series back in 2017, I really started liking JK Rowlings’s detective narrative. Lethal White is the fourth book in the series, after The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career Of Evil, which the author writes under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith. The novel starts with the wedding of Strike’s…
“I look up at the sky and often wonder….” International Space Day – Reading List
Space Day gives you the opportunity participate in the excitement and fascination of space. It’s a topic of interest to millions, old and young alike. Every year space day is celebrated on the first Friday of may and so this year its the 3rd of May. Former astronaut and Senator John Glenn expanded Space Day to International…
Book Review 17 – Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
It’s 1969, and Frances Jellico, a woman in her late thirties, has just moved into the attic of the famous English countryside mansion at Lyntons. Frances has been hired by an American who just bought the estate to evaluate and research the architecture and its surrounding gardens. But Frances is not alone. Cara and Peter,…
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