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"Again, but Better" Book Reveiw
Pages - 384 Synopsis In 2011, young Shane takes a chance at trying something different, taking a gap semester in London for creative writing. With an Internship at a traveling magazine and cool friends and a super cute and dorky crush, who just so happens to love The Beatles as much as her by her side, everything seems to be looking up! Sadly, not all is what it seems, one thing led to another, like her parents blatant disapproval of her dream to be a writer, which left a distraught Shane. Fast forward to 2017, Shane is preparing herself for an unfulfilling career as a nurse , wondering "what if". She takes a chance to visit an old friend from her gap semester when suddenly they are thrown back 6 years into the past. Now armed with this chance to make a change in her future, will Shane use this situation to her advantage?
The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
For a long time, I was intimidated to grab a copy of Orhan Pamuk’s novels with ‘myths’ constantly reminding me that “it is too difficult to understand”. At one point, this is what his latest novel The Red Haired Woman is telling: to believe in myths or not to believe in myths. Had I believed that ‘myth’, I wouldn’t be writing this review but here I am mesmerised by Pamuk’s major talent.
Mergim OzdamarPublished 4 years ago in GeeksRanking all 13 'I Am Canada' Books
Overall thoughts Let me get something out of the way: I didn’t want to read these books. Maybe that’s too strong of a statement. I’m something of a purveyor of children’s historical fiction. Previously, I fulfilled an insatiable decade-old desire lodged in the back of my brain to read and rank all 33 Dear Canada books, and determined that some of them are fantastic. Then, I set my sights a little further south and read and ranked all 43 Dear America books with slightly less exciting results. Then, I was supposed to read and rank The Royal Diaries—which is Dear Canada/America for kids who haven't developed class consciousness yet or, are really into Elizabeth Tudor/Cleopatra/Anastasia Romanova—and then I didn’t. It wasn’t for lack of resources, all of the books were at my local library. Instead, I fell into a reading slump last summer that I’m still crawling my way out of. My chance to include a Royal Diaries installment of this series vanished right before my eyes.
kit vaillancourtPublished 4 years ago in GeeksA Surprisingly Fun (and Free!) Read While You're Stuck In Quarantine | Adventures of a Vegan Vamp by Cate Lawley | Book Review
Adventures of a Vegan Vamp certainly sounded like it was going to be pretty out there -- and not necessarily good. I found this book by Cate Lawley in a BookBub email. It was listed as free on Amazon and the title was so out there that I had to give it a shot. It’s free, it’s not gonna hurt anything to give it a shot, right? Especially with nearly 500 reviews on Amazon! Well, thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised by this book.
Novels to Discover: "Ready Player One"
Hello and welcome to Novels to Discover! Last week featured Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”, an exploration into the novel which you can read here. This week though, we’re turning to Ernest Cline’s 2011 dystopian novel “Ready Player One”. This adventure novel shows what a futuristic world could be like, with a heavy nostalgia and retro aesthetics weaved throughout.
Leigh HooperPublished 4 years ago in Geeks31 Books I Highly Recommend
I started reading seriously again a decade or so ago. Here are some of the books I’ve most enjoyed over that time, in case you’re cooped up at home and need some recommendations that aren’t just the Hot New Thing.
Claire Amy HandscombePublished 4 years ago in GeeksMy Top 10 Most Dramatic Novels of All Time
Dramatic novels are always the best, I think. I love the mix of emotion alongside these wrenching stories of survival, love and death. It's a brilliantly gushing way to use your reading time. There are many, many dramatic books out there, but I really wanted to go through my top ten most amazing of all of them...
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in Geeks20 Books of 2020 (Pt.13)
I think I've identified the kind of literature I'm reading more and that's Golden Age British Crime Fiction. However, I'm still concentrating on keeping myself attached to reality by reading nonfiction. Unfortunately enough, I haven't really had the taste for fantasy or YA recently as I normally would - which is bothering me. I don't want to think I have grown out of it because they are some of my favourites. However, I won't read something I'm not in the mood to read. I only ever read this much for entertainment.
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in GeeksBooks for When Anxiety Makes It Hard to Concentrate
Books can make for a wonderful escape in anxious times — but sometimes, in those times, it’s hard to concentrate for long, especially when we first pick up a book. That’s when a particular type of read can come in really handy: the book that comes in short chunks. Maybe it’s in the form of a diary, or letters, or maybe the chapters are really short. We can pick it up, even if we don’t feel like it, and force ourselves to read a page or two. And then, out of nowhere the magic happens: a really good book will lure us in with short chapters but then keep our attention and draw us in so that we keep turning pages and forget to check our phones.
Claire Amy HandscombePublished 4 years ago in GeeksThe M... PUNISHED.
An adventure happened under the Regency in Paris, extraordinary enough to still be told with interest today; it offers on the one hand a secret debauchery, and on the other hand, three dreadful murders, the author of which was never discovered. And, as to your conjectures before we begin, as to what caused the catastrophe, and whether or not it was deserved, we can hope to elucidate; perhaps then it will disturb our readers less.
Fiction, a tool for personal growth
Since I was a child most of my free time was spent reading fiction. At least until 2 years ago when I found what I wanted to do and noticed that I wouldn’t have enough time to accomplish it unless I cut on fiction
Adam SkaliPublished 4 years ago in GeeksLe rose di Atacama - BEAUTIFUL FROM THE NORMAL THINGS
The life of a guy who used to be an electrician apprentice fell into the abyss of silence due to the torture from dictators who deprived him of the ability to speak up and deprived of his identity. his real because he could not say his real name, in his voice to the old teammates who only know his operating aliases. Time seems to have died on the bodies of two women, a brunette and a blonde, at night they were dragged out of the house, after the first shivers, and deep in their bodies. blood sheaths, "rock punches", "boot marks" and even "electrical picana marks" an unyielding unwavering will that implicitly won the victory: "They didn't subdue you.". There are many more people in this book that have buried their own wars, in small or vast lands, at completely different times. They have voiced their love for peace and justice in their own lives, the price to pay is sometimes death, and scarier than death is nameless and forgotten. People only remember the names of the countless battles that took place while the names of those who have been trampled by evil gradually fade away as if they never existed in the world. Is our memory complicity with a crime? Joseph Goebbels - one of those who advocated the extermination of Jews during World War II (is it a crime to remember the names of those who oppose humanity instead of the names of the victims?) - asserts: A death is a scandal, thousands of deaths are a statistic.
Thao Thao TranPublished 4 years ago in Geeks