Books
Book Reviews
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What if you get a chance to redo your life? What decisions will you change? Which life event will you delete? Or will you choose to not change anything about your past life? All This & More by Peng Shepherd is a book based on this premise. The book starts with “How to Read This…
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Before there was Adam and Eve, it was Adam and Lilith in the paradise called Eden. The story, Eden Abandoned is about Lilith and what she went through. Lilith, made by God after Adam, in the same way as He made Adam. The difference between the two: Lilith is more daring than Adam and knows…
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A story of valour, grit, power, loyalty and honour.
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Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, Haruki Murakami is one of the most celebrated authors around the world. In his novels he creates a poignant and surreal world which resonates with the readers. Murakami’s literary universe is a dreamscape where reality seamlessly blends with fantasy, and the mundane intertwines with the mysterious. His novels are…
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Published in 1936, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is one of the most significant and well-known novels in American literature. It is the only nove published by Margaret Mitchell. The novel tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara, a young woman living in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. As readers…
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Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus is a gothic novel written by Mary Shelley and published in 1818. The first edition of the novel was published anonymously and it was only the second edition, published in 1821 in Paris that Mary Shelley’s name appeared. In 1816, Mary, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had…
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a novel by Gail Honeyman published in 2017. The novel is about a 29 year old woman named Eleanor Oliphant who lives alone in Glasgow, Scotland . She is academically intelligent and a loner. She is awkward in social settings and has no friends. She feels that she is…
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay is a young adult novel written by Adib Khorram. It tells the story of Darius Kellner, a half-Persian, half-American teenager who faces challenges in his personal life, family life, and his cultural identity. The book explores Darius’s journey of self-discovery and growth as he navigates complex relationships and learns…
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Cecilia Ahern is an Irish author who is now published in over fifty countries. Her first novel, P.S. I Love You has garnered worldwide acclaim and has also been adapted into a movie. Her books are mostly a poignant mix of romance and magic. Her storytelling is captivating and fairly easy to read and fall…
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Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison was published in 1987 and is winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The book showcases the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave in Kentucky to her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, in…