Personal Rating: The Tao of Pooh is an introduction to Taoism for Westerners explained through the characters of Winnie-the-Pooh. It all started when the author Benjamin Hoff observed that the English language writings about Taoist philosophy often miss the point. According to him, they are more concerned with “bickering over minute particulars” than telling the […]
Self-Identity, Mental Health, and Lasting Friendships: Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
Personal Rating: Note: This review might contain some vague spoilers. “The words used to describe it – despair, fear, anxiety, obsession – do so little to communicate it. Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense and senses.” At some […]
Different facets of love: Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli
Personal Rating Any stories representing diverse characters and portraying different types of love alongside romance with relationships other than significant others are remarkable. Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli delivers both. In this contemporary romance-comedy work of fiction for 14+ young adults, diverse primary and secondary characters celebrate love in all its forms as a family, friend, […]
Wake Up, Amber! A review to Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Personal Rating This novel is Sometimes I Lie. There are three things you need to know about this novel. It is a page-turner, It keeps you puzzled, I do not lie about how I feel in this novel. Sometimes I Lie, a 2017 psychological thriller novel written by debuting author Alice Feeney. Sometimes I Lie […]
A Heartwarming Story: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
Personal Rating: June 16, 2021 Dear Charlie, Greetings Charlie! I’ve just completed reading your story, and I’d like to let you know that we both live in a realm where loneliness pervades our souls. I’m thrilled to learn about your tale, knowing that many others like us have gone through similar experiences. I also felt […]
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks: A True-to-Life Literary Mystery
Personal Rating: “People of the Book” is an Islamic reference to Jews, Christians, and Sabians. However, many other religious denominations have also embraced the term to refer to themselves. People of the Book is also a bestselling novel by the American writer and journalist Geraldine Brooks. Indeed, it is a title apt for the historical […]
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: The Safe Space
Personal Ratings: Trigger warnings for mental health disorders, self-harm, substance abuse, suicide, terminal cancer, death of a loved one, and everything in between are in order in Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library. This adult science-fiction, a fantasy-esque novel that is wrapped up with philosophy, parallel universe, and quantum physics, and won the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award and Good Morning […]
Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini: The Last Free Dragon Rider:
Personal Rating *This review may contain spoilers. * The Inheritance Cycle is a worldwide bestselling, four-book high fantasy series written by Christopher Paolini, about a farm boy, Eragon, and his adventures with his dragon, Saphira, in the magical land of Alagaësia. Of the four books, I loved Brisingr the most because it was at that […]
Poetic Accounts on Women’s Health: I Knew A Woman
Personal Rating I may have an alternative way of learning about things in life. Like some of us, I wasn’t that much enticed with textbooks from school. I instead learn history through historical fiction books, science through sci-fi novels, and problem-solving through mystery books. In human biology, particularly female biology, I remembered being overwhelmed with […]
The Consequences of Counting Moments: The Time Keeper
Imagine a world without the concept of time. There will be no such thing as promptness or haste. Every movement won’t be defined and limited by digits. Rather, we simply enjoy moments. But when our bodies get up as if summoned by the rising sun and retire upon the appearance of the moon’s shy crescent […]
