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Bookworms
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More things change, more they stay the same. This is a wonderful work of fiction (and philosophy). It was like a breath of fresh air for me, because when I read enough petty books and start wondering if maybe reading just got boring or maybe I can't quite feel like books are so grand anymore, or maybe I'm just not as impressionable, I stumble upon
This was a tough read. If you care about women, it makes you want to cry out for them. A friend of mine from Ireland lent me his copy of this book and the first question I asked him was, was it good? He said, yes, and it is definitely thought-provoking. As soon as I finished reading another book for a book club, I picked this one up and finished
Shadowless
This is a weird book to read, and even weirder to review because the beginning was so totally freakish I felt lost, like very lost in 100 pages. But I kept reading because the book was short and I really wanted to give it a fair chance and to finish it. With that being said, the end was cool. About more than half of the way through the
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The Call of the Wild!
It is a world-classic and we all know that. it is a world-classic because Jack London is an excellent writer.
It is page-turning book that you will finish it in one sitting and moreover if you have not read the book, make sure to do so in 2019. I guarantee that you won't be disappointed. It has thrills, chills and spills. Thrills as in thrilling chases; chills as in chilling icy weather and spills as in dog fights to the death with spilling blood.
The story is about a dog called Buck. He is kidnapped from his comfy farm life with the judge and is thrown on a train. He finds himself enslaved with some terrible men until he ends up sold to the government as part of a courier service in Alaska. He quickly has to learn to adapt to the harsh environment and the pecking order between the existing dogs. He barely gets anything to eat and is constantly abused into submission. Finally, he is auctioned off after completing three legs of an impossible journey to a small group of inexperienced mushers. Forced to carry ultra-heavy loads and getting even less food leaves Buck wondering if there's something more for him. Then he meets John Thornton and my heart expanded three sizes.
You will think about these sayings
How Rebellious!
How delicious!
This story made me happy. It left me in peace. This is reason enough to read the story.
Собачье сердце = Sobach'e serdtse = The Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov (1891-1940) endured the difficult experience of having to live under the pressure of censorship, but has nonetheless left some interesting books that allow us to know what he thought about the process that has taking place in the newborn Soviet Russia. "Heart
A terrific short novel with a great idea at its core. This was banned by the Nazis. It isn't clear to me why except that there is one reference to supporter of the Reds in Russian, and certainly they would have been enemies of the Germans in 1933.
I really, really liked this one. It's so twisted! I thought it was a crime novel but no way -- this is a very dark book overflowing with paranoia, one that seriously played with my head. But The less one knows about the book before reading it, the better.
Young German doctor Georg Amberg awakens in hospital after an accident. Amberg's memories of the circumstances are not believed. He says he suffered a blow to the head from a flail a few days earlier but doctors insist he was knocked down by a car and has been in a coma for five weeks. The bulk of the novel is Amberg's recollection of events leading up to his accident, from the time he accepted a job as village doctor in rural Westphalia, where he meets Baron von Malchin, an old friend of Amberg's historian father, his estate manager, a White Russian exile, and Bibiche, a beautiful young scientist working with the Baron.
It's also a highly-satisfying novel I can recommend to anyone who, like me, loves obscure fiction.
In a net shell, a very emotional novel by amazing author.
This book can be named as an autobiography of first and last love of Kahlil Gibran the great philosopher who met a girl named Selma Keremy at Beirut, Lebanon. This was love at first sight. Selma is a young beautiful girl as a picture of Beirut who is as still as a Pond, as deep as an Ocean,
This was a very hard book for me to read. Very different views on wrongful birth, abortion, adoption. The characters were real enough. What would you do for your child with serious disabilities? Would you sue your best friend for not telling you more about the reality of the life your child would have?
It is about the choices we have in life. It's about love of family and about the ease with which friends come and go. It's about learning who we are and accepting ourselves.
The story is about the birth of a girl with OI (Osteogenesis Imperfecta) and how she lights up the lives of her family yet breaks bones just by rolling over in bed. She breaks bones falling. The list is endless. The point is, the family was not informed at the ultrasound that they were giving birth to a daughter with OI. This book brings you in and shows you how a person with OI lives. It shows you the love and care with which her family treats her and, she in turn, treats them.
I learned so much about OI and, of course, plan on googling to learn more about it. I laughed and I cried and was at war with myself on who was right or who was wrong. I will say that I cried just about every other page for the first couple of chapters, then totally lost it at the end, but what a ride through moral/ethical issues. I hope you enjoy it through your tears, I know I did.
After glancing at some information about this book which is highly praised by the readers, I still had no idea what it was about, so I decided to read it, I just read it in 3 days!
Momo is a classic story that is known as a children's book, yet I believe that adults may even glean more from its reading than younger folk. Momo is written by Michael
He has neither name nor defined crime but in six weeks he will be guillotined.
"The Last Day of a Condemned Man” is a quite powerful read about a subject that (I have to admit) I haven’t thought much about before: The Death Penalty. This is also the first book I read by Victor Hugo and now I am definitely interested in reading more of his Works like Les Miserable as soon as possible!
It may be a short read, but it is by no means an easy one. It is Not necessarily enjoyable in the usual sense, the book is an important and powerful work in opposition to the death penalty. It reads like the thoughts and journal of a condemned man in France, who is given six weeks to live. The reader is forced to delve into the thoughts and fears of a man that we never really get to know in a sense; we are told very little about his life, and told practically nothing about the crime he has committed that has led him to prison and to be sentenced to death. But that is Hugo's point -- that capital punishment is so inhumane that it should not matter the crime, or the details, or who a person is, only that the sentence is so cruel and unusual that it should not be an option.
What I like about this book is: it is short, to the point, well-composed, and philosophical. The writer did an extraordinary job at portraying the final thoughts of a prisoner condemned to death while also bringing the reader into the grim world of a 19th Century prison.
As long as you are curious what we can feel in such a situation, the Last Day of a Condemned should fully meet your expectations!
It is a great book that makes for a very nice read. It's thought provoking, but in a way that when reading, you aren't burden with thoughts. The characters themselves are not just symbols or allegories or abstract thoughts. Instead, it's a novel that follows the life of a love-struck man as he wonders what really is the meaning of life. The book opens with an amusing foreword by a fictional personage. This forward is then rebutted by the author. The story then proceeds and we follow the life, and ultimately love life, of the foolish and delusional Don Augusto Perez. While Augusto is so shallow and simple that we begin to lose interest in him, he quickly is placed within many scenes and set up against many characters who have great presence, humor, and style. There is both gentle and biting humor. The book switches into an even higher gear when its modernist jokes and sensibility are brought into focus by the arrival of the author. Unamuno argues with his fictional creation Augusto, and the two engage in repeated back and forth discussions and arguments about fiction, the novel, reality, the responsibility of the author, Augusto's identity, and so on. This continues right up to the final pages of the novel, at which point the question of who is in control still seems an open point.
There is great humor, playfulness, serious intent, patience, compassion, and earnestness mixed into both books. This, above all, is what I would suggest makes the book of interest to a general, ambitious, and adventurous reader. It's such a charming book, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in expanding their library.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was an amazing read for me. It was a fairly quick read. I finished it in two days, but I never saw the ending coming, and it totally wrecked me and it is truly an amazing yet daunting novel that I will never forget. The author John Boyne did a masterful job of depicting the setting in such vivid detail and exposing
First and foremost, the philosophies driving this story's themes are very powerful and profound. This book had me digging deep on my own outlook on things like self-purpose, the meaning of love, and the institution of religion. I don't think the author had an agenda one way or the other about faith, in particular, but the dialogue is definitely
One of the most interesting, eye-opening books I've read. I’m familiar with Russian literature, I know Russian, but the more I read, the more I'm falling in love with them.
It's one of those Russian classics that's always on those lists. A Hero of Our Time has an interesting format. It's split into sections but these sections are all very
“When death captures me,” the boy vowed, “he will feel my fist on his face.”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
This is a book to treasure, a new classic. I absolutely loved it. This book made me feel empty in a way that only truly beautifully written books can. When I finished reading the last word
