Dystopian novels provide some of literature’s most blatant cultural critiques. Reading about oppressive government regimes—or even a giant brain telepathically controlling an entire planet—stokes the fire in our souls. Witnessing citizens rebel against the status quo offers hope for the future, even if that rebellion proves unsuccessful. It is a work of fiction in which…
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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,…
Book Review 16 – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
At the end of any book, I am usually happy or sad, or crying or being excited about my next read. But this book, this story, this man who I met on these pages made me contemplate for a long, long time, contemplate on love, on grief, on death, and on life in general. When…
To read is to travel someplace else – a book is it’s most beautiful medium! – World Book Day Reading List.
World Book Day is also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book. It is an annual event, organised by UNESCO to promote reading and publishing. Reading is a very important part of my life and books are a feeling of joy that nothing else brings. Every year there are…
Book Review 15 – Landline by Rainbow Rowell
“You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten – in fifteen.” Landline is a novel written…
Book Review 13 – Jar Of Hearts by Jennifer Hiller
Jar Of Hearts by Jennifer Hiller is a psychological thriller spread across a night in high school, fast forwarded to fourteen years later. Three best friends, inseparable throughout high school, until a special someone, comes along. Popular Angela Wong disappears one night after a party. Nobody knows where she is apart from her best friend…
Book Review 10 – Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
As a kid, I was only interested in reading two genres of the reading world — romance and crime fiction. Two extremely different surrounding emotions but just in books can they be magically spun together. Well, this book definitely isn’t about love at all but about a crime, a crime that has taken place on…
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