book reviews
Reviews of books by relationship gurus, dating experts, and cautionary tale-tellers.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Recently, I've read a number of novels that have really left me feeling empty. Some were too simple, others had a lot of issues fixed swiftly and neatly, while a third category had textual errors such misidentified bugs, incorrect tribes, and inaccurate descriptions. As I often do, I slogged through them all in the hopes of finding some intellectual interest and stimulation, but ultimately I was deeply let down. Then I chose Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Fowler takes all the lovely components of a book and incorporates them into a compelling story with interesting people and situations. My mind was completely engaged from the first page to the last.
By Rahau Mihai4 years ago in Humans
Book Review: Valen and the Beasts by G.J. Kemp
Valen plucked the glass box off the shelf and gently placed it on his desk. Inside, a set of handcrafted metal circles linked to form the body of his new beast. He closed his eyes and dreamed of the Fairacre residents buying his latest creations. A commotion outside Valen’s shop brings him back to the present. The Captain has caught the leader of the sewer rats and is parading her in front of Fairacre residents. Her fate will be determined by the townsfolk’s demands. Valen steps in to defend the leader. A story of discovery, hope and courage, Valen and the Beasts is a journey of an outsider risking everything to stand up for the people he loves. Will Valen save the leader of the sewer rats? Will he show everyone his secret? Or will he buckle under the pressures of the old conventions?
By Marie Sinadjan4 years ago in Humans
Book Review: The Heron Kings by Eric Lewis
After a warlord slaughters her patients, Sister Alessia quits the cloister and strikes out on her own to heal the victims of a brutal dynastic conflict. Her roaming forest camp unwittingly becomes the center of a vengeful peasant insurgency, raiding the forces of both sides to survive. Alessia struggles to temper their fury as well as tend wounds, consenting to ever greater violence to keep her new charges safe. When they uncover proof of a foreign conspiracy prolonging the bloodshed, Alessia risks the very lives she’s saved to expose the truth and bring the war to an end.
By Marie Sinadjan4 years ago in Humans
How ‘Last Things-A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love’ Left Me In Tears.
This graphic memoir by Marissa Moss deals extensively with her husband’s illness and how it damaged their perfect family setup. This is a graphic memoir where Moss is very candid about her experiences as a wife and mother who had to face the pain of her husband’s illness. Their peaceful life in California USA was soon to be disrupted by Harvey’s(Moss’s husband) illness. The very beginning of the memoir gives subtle indications about how deep the love was between Harvey and Moss. Moss was working as a waitress when they first met, deep down ,however, she was a writer and Harvey believed in her potential as a writer. Moss herself describes the same and the memoir drags the reader deep into their intimate relationship which was rooted in mutual love and support.
By Noel George4 years ago in Humans
The Shining Personality Behind Veil of Oblivion dr. Rashid Jahan
Delhi-based author Rakshanda Jalil has written a book, 'A Rebel and Her Cause' and brings to the fore a shining figure in Indian history, Dr. Rashid Jahan. Today, Rashid Jahan, who lived in various roles like a doctor, writer, and communist for five generations, seems to be a surprise today.
By Yogesh Sawant4 years ago in Humans
Book Review: Man Down by James Goodhand
Will Parks is being followed. Someone is watching him, feeding him glimpses of the future - steering him down paths he would never have dared to take alone. But these supernatural tip-offs are doing more for Will than just boosting his popularity, or keeping him out of trouble in the dead-end town he calls home. They have a purpose. Because a tragedy is coming. One that only Will can prevent. But only if he is ready to step up. Only if he's prepared to become the man he's meant to be.
By Marie Sinadjan4 years ago in Humans
What Would Uncle Walt Think?
“You’d be lost without your computers,” were the words that came from my 80-year-old father’s mouth yesterday as I told him I was trying to write more. In a world governed by technology that demands to be advanced, there’s no way to avoid computers and other gadgets. The stimuli of my dad’s days have become more than normal thanks to progress—they’ve become supernormal.
By Joshua Reed4 years ago in Humans
Bluest Eye
Claudia and Frieda learn that Pecola's dad had a pregnant daughter, and besides the general populace, both want to get the baby should survive. They give up their savings for a motorcycle to cultivate marigold flowers. They assume that because the blooms survive, Pecola's kid would as well. The flower heads struggle to blossom, and Pecola's baby dies responsible for the rapid birth. Cholly was killed in such a labor camp after rapping Pecola twice and fleeing. Pecola goes insane, certain that the long-cherished dreams came true and that she somehow possesses the most beautiful eyes.
By Nawal Imran4 years ago in Humans
The bluest eyes
Toni Morrison is a Black African writer who was born in 1931. She noticed the problems of the black community in America and showed them to the world by incorporating them into the stories. She used to write folks and short shorties in her childhood. The Nobel prize was given to her for her excellent literature performance in 1993. The author should Choose Bluest Eye because it is difficult literature to critique. That book's contentious character, which engages in discrimination, child rape, and sexual misconduct, renders it among the most contested works in American libraries. The Bluest Eye is an intriguing narrative about a ten African American girl that despises herself because of her dark complexion. She wants to pray for white skin and blue eyes since they will give her more attractiveness and help her to see the world from a different perspective light. She also hopes that society would win her back. The narrative is set near Oberlin, Oh, in the ensuing years of the Economic Crisis, against the landscape of America's Midwest.
By Nawal Imran4 years ago in Humans
I’m Not an Impaired Extrovert, I’m an Introvert. Top Story - May 2022.
I have just finished reading a book that resonated so very deeply, I feel totally validated and it explains to me characteristics of myself that I haven’t accepted at all. And tells me why I tend to reject these characteristics.
By Kate Strong4 years ago in Humans
