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Review of 'The Lucky List'
The Lucky List is a powerful story of grief, love, and accepting oneself above all else. Amazing Depth One of the major themes that stood out about The Lucky List is how characters deal with grief. Emily’s mother died of cancer three years ago, and she is still reeling. Her mother wholeheartedly believed in good luck, and when she passed, for Emily, it felt like all the luck was gone in the world. She isolated herself from her friends, and her father must sell the house to pay off the medical bills. For Emily, her grief is stopping her from living, from moving on, from connecting to herself.
By Cyn's Workshop5 years ago in Geeks
5 Great Books I Read in June '21
June is a lot of things to a lot of people. For British people here it is the start of the real summer season with some of the hottest days of the year becoming a reality. People go to beaches and day trips and a bunch of other hot-day activities happen. This year and last year though, it has been considerably different. Less has been going on though people still insist on crowding beaches and making a day-trip out of car journeys to crowded shopping centres. Honestly, if you are out there please stay safe as vaccinations for COVID-19 have not ended and the delta variant is still out there.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
The Healthiest and Most Stable Relationship in my life. Top Story - June 2021.
Books are magic. Turn a page and you can be thrust into a new reality. At one moment you might find yourself the observer of a human-vampire romance; the insider with knowledge of a secret plot; or, you just might uncover the secrets of the universe only known to those who have diligently studied the cosmos. Wherever and whenever you find yourself, the power of words and your ability to imagine things you’ve never seen or experienced first-hand is what brought you there.
By SM Reviews5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Dangling Man" by Saul Bellow
A few years back I read my very first text by Saul Bellow - the American realist author of the mid-20th century and I am not going to lie to you when I say that I hated everything about it. It was dry and droning on and on, I could not stand any of the characters or the writing style and yet, it was supposed to be one of the best books ever written according to a lot of people. The book was called “The Adventures of Augie March”. I read it some years later at the age of around twenty-three and, thinking my nineteen-year-old self had just had a bad day, tried to read it again. It was all the same. I could not stand it still. I tried some other books by Saul Bellow such as “Herzog” and “It All Adds Up”, “Henderson the Rain King” was also one of the fictions of boredom I tried. But all of them were terrible experiences for me. This is nothing on Saul Bellow as a writer, I can appreciate the fact that lots of people love his works but they are just not for me. I find that his characters spend far too much time talking about themselves instead of exploring the deeper and wider angles of life. But that changed slightly when I read a book called “Dangling Man”. This is the Saul Bellow novel which changed my mind ever so slightly, about him and his works.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
"Emma", by Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen (1775-1817), was published in December 1815 although the date on the original title page is 1816. It was therefore the last novel to be published in Austen’s lifetime, although Persuasion was written after she had completed the writing of Emma but was published after her death.
By John Welford5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Dandelions" by Yasunari Kawabata
I love reading 20th century Japanese Literature. The books of Junichiro Tanazaki, Yukio Mishima and the beautiful commentary on extreme human conditions as written by Yasunari Kawabata are among some of the greatest books to grace the last one hundred years of literature. In the 21st century, Japanese Literature continues the tradition of accurately and beautifully putting into words what others have previously struggled with articulating. The works of Yoko Ogawa such as “Revenge” and “The Memory Police” have often analysed the feelings of national anxiety as channelled through one or a small set of characters. The works of Haruki Murakami have the Kafkan quality of despair raining over them whilst also managing to tell the most wonderful narratives through extended metaphors. But in this review, I would like to discuss the final work of the great Yasunari Kawabata. It is called “Dandelions” and it is one of the most beautiful and incredible books to ever be written in Japan.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "34 Patients" by Tom Templeton
I remember when I read a book called “When Breath Becomes Air” and was fascinated about the amount of hard work, love, care and courage that goes into being a doctor and even more so, being a doctor who then requires a doctor for a terminal illness that he himself will later succumb to. It started a fashion off for me to become fascinated with the stories of people who work some of the most intriguing jobs from doctors to architects and honestly, they require the person to know exactly what they are doing as mistakes are hardly ever permitted. Along the way, I have come into contact with many books about doctors and the treatment of illnesses with the books of Oliver Sacks being among the most famous that I have read. But, when this book caught my eye, I have to say that I was not immediately taken by it. In fact, it was more of a curiosity as I had never really read a book on this scale before in which the doctor basically gives us 34 very different patients to look at over the course of their career. Fascinated for a long, long while - I could not even begin to see what was to come in this grand memoir of being in the medical profession.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
