Nonfiction

[BOOK SUMMARY & REVIEW] "NO FAMILY"
There are books that, when read at different ages, reveal different layers of meaning. For children, "No Family" is a dramatic adventure with intelligent animals and new lands. For adults, it is a lesson about the harshness of fate, about character, and about the true definition of "family."
By HieuDinh2 days ago in BookClub
[BOOK REVIEW] "I'LL COME WITH THE RAIN"
When discussing literary works by author Ichikawa Takuji, many readers have offered a very interesting observation: they are neither romance novels nor science fiction, but are categorized specifically as "Ichikawa Takuji" works. Among them, "I'll Come with the Rain" is perhaps the most sparkling gem, shining with its unique and unmistakable quality. Calm like the flow of time, without needing flowery or ornate lyrics, the book gently touches the reader's heart through its simple and relatable love story.
By HieuDinh2 days ago in BookClub
6 Books To Set You Up For a More Productive 2026
As a new year begins, fresh goals are set, and ambitious plans take shape. Alongside the excitement and motivation, there is often a quiet anxiety: how to accomplish it all? We start looking for effective ways to get things done and move forward without feeling overwhelmed. In essence, we seek a healthy form of productivity, one that allows us to achieve more while still maintaining balance and enjoyment in everyday life.
By Ana Chur3 days ago in BookClub
Reasons To Stay Alive
Many years ago, for one World Book Night 2016, the book I chose to give out was “Reasons To Stay Alive” by Matt Haig. I had already read “Humans” and was impressed by that; I had given that away the previous year.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 days ago in BookClub
The Pernicious Grip of AIPAC
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), often portrayed as a mere advocacy group for U.S.-Israel relations, operates more like a metastatic cancer on American democracy, infiltrating both parties through massive campaign donations, coercive endorsements, and relentless lobbying to subordinate U.S. foreign policy to Israel's agenda. This influence isn't just undemocratic—it's profoundly damaging, prioritizing a foreign nation's militaristic ambitions over American interests, such as domestic infrastructure, healthcare, and economic stability. Critics rightly argue that AIPAC's tactics create a chilling effect on free speech in Congress, where even mild criticism of Israel's actions—like its ongoing operations in Gaza or escalations with Iran—can end careers through multimillion-dollar attack campaigns.
By independent journalist10 days ago in BookClub
Isreal Genocide against palestine
The genocide did not begin on October 7, 2023. It began in 1948 and never ended. In the spring of 1948, Zionist militias — Haganah, Irgun, Lehi — moved village by village across Palestine. Deir Yassin, April 9: 112 men, women, and children shot, bayoneted, or blown up with barrel bombs. The bodies were thrown into wells. The massacre was broadcast on loudspeakers to terrorize neighboring villages into fleeing. By the time Israel declared itself a state on May 14, 1948, more than 300 Palestinian villages had already been erased. Over 750,000 people — three-quarters of the Arab population in what became Israel — were driven out or fled under direct fire. This was the Nakba: the Catastrophe. Israel calls it the War of Independence. Palestinians call it the beginning of their attempted extermination.
By independent journalist10 days ago in BookClub
"This Broken Vessel"
“Can you please buy me this book on Kindle?” I called through the house to my daughter. Books ambush me in the unlikeliest places. This one found me as I read a Christmas newsletter from my husband’s New Zealand cousin. It begged to join our household that very day… and thanks to my ever helpful daughter, it did!
By Angie the Archivist 📚🪶11 days ago in BookClub
BOOK REVIEW OF “THE DANCE OF SATAN”
László Krasznahorkai’s “The Dance of Satan” is a postmodern masterpiece, depicting the spiral of decay and madness in a post-communist Hungarian village. With its lengthy and haunting prose, the work challenges readers to confront religious illusions and human isolation.
By HieuDinh13 days ago in BookClub
The Ghost of Rust and Chrome (Revised). AI-Generated.
The spurs on Elias’s boots didn’t jingle. They never had. They hummed instead — a low, ugly vibration of sapphire light that crawled up through the iron-heavy sands of New Nevada and into his bones. He hated that sound. It reminded him that nothing about him was old-world anymore.
By omar13 days ago in BookClub
[BOOK REVIEW] "LOVING A DEATH ROW INMATE"
"Loving a Death Row Inmate" is inspired by author Gong Ji Young's visits to prisoners. There, she met the most sinful, cursed, and punished people in the world. But behind them are stories no one has ever told, no one has ever mentioned. And that story earned Gong Ji Young the Special Media Award from Amnesty International.
By HieuDinh14 days ago in BookClub
THE DOG OF DEATH (MIKITO CHINEN)
A Grim Reaper is reincarnated into the mortal world in the form of a dog to help terminally ill patients avoid becoming "haunted spirits" by freeing them from their attachments to the earthly realm. However, the place where this Grim Reaper descends is a hospital shrouded in countless mysteries from the past to the present. Through his work, the Grim Reaper not only inadvertently unveils the dark veil that has long shrouded the minds of the people there, but also confronts reality, veering in an unpredictable and dangerous direction.
By HieuDinh16 days ago in BookClub
[BOOK SUMMARY & REVIEW] “TEN LITTLE BLACK MEN”:
“Ten Little Black Men” (And Then There Were None) is one of Agatha Christie’s most classic detective masterpieces – a work that the “Queen of Detective Fiction” herself acknowledged as her most difficult yet most brilliant book. Unlike typical detective novels, the story doesn’t feature a brilliant detective like Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. Instead, the entire story revolves around ten complete strangers, invited to an isolated island – and then one by one, they die, according to a mysterious nursery rhyme.
By HieuDinh16 days ago in BookClub