It is extremely infrequent that you read a book and can connect to each of the characters, stand in their shoes, and experience everything going around. Finding fiction that seems so real that you eventually forget that the characters are all fictional is very rare. … (Continue Reading)
Her thoughts are so clear. Her words, profound. Her dialect, simple. And yet, each time she leaves me astound! A woman of great spiritual sagacity – it’s hard not to adore someone like Maya Angelou! Have you ever come across someone in life and felt … (Continue Reading)
There are so many ways one can define a book, right? Some books are intense, while others are light and breezy. However, if I have to define the book Divergent, I will say that it’s a really fun book. Yes, ‘fun’ is the word that … (Continue Reading)
After Veronica Roth‘s explosive debut with the book, Divergent, people were going crazy for the second book in the trilogy. Divergent was one amazing book. It was such a fun book that I keep recommending it to those who are battling a reading slump. So, … (Continue Reading)
I love reading stand-alone novels. I am not much of a series person. I feel reading a series requires commitment – because, you know, you cannot just read the first book or the first few books and not read the rest. Well, one can always … (Continue Reading)
The Divergent trilogy is a young adult science fiction series. The series follows the story of the post-apocalyptic dystopian version of Chicago. In the post-apocalyptic version of Chicago, people are put into factions as per their personality traits and attributes in order to avoid wars … (Continue Reading)
Reading a book that can be grasped with ease may not be as challenging as going through a book that can give you chills down the spine. There are a number of individuals who love to read, or I must say the idea of reading … (Continue Reading)
Have you ever read a book and felt like you have experienced every bit of it in real life? Well, I don’t know about you, but when I read A Thousand Splendid Suns, it felt like I lived that story. And I was traumatized. No … (Continue Reading)
I remember back in college when I was deep into nihilism; I discovered this book called “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom. And ever since then my life took a complete U-turn. I mean you cannot be a nihilist and then read books like “Tuesdays … (Continue Reading)
There are numerous books that tell stories of the people who either survived or succumbed to the World Wars. It’s crazy how a person’s life can completely change because of war and the misery it brings along. It’s easy to talk about war, but when … (Continue Reading)