BOOK REVIEW ; THE TIME OF MY LIFE

Hello ! First up is a book review from my dear ex-schoolmate, also a book lover. I'm not sure if she wants herself to be known here, but thankyou so much to you ! First contributing book review, and I'm hoping for many many more to come :)

Title : The Time of My Life

Author : Cecelia Ahern

At first, this was slow. Although slow, the words manage to echo in my head all the time. Insisting that I continue reading it. I haven’t got much time to read. Always am tired and stuff. The book was in my bag the whole time, yet it is not read. Well, I did read it for a few chapters. That is why the words stuck in my head. Just time wasn’t on my side.

Well, it is Ahern’s writings. It has to be good. So one day I managed to pick it up and continue to read. The story was a about a lady that was so messed up. She was dumped, got fired and bought a studio apartment. The series of unfortunate lead from one to another. But, she was quite fine with her life. She still have a place to live, have a job that could pay the rents, have a cat. She still hang out and spend time with her friends and family, only she would prefer not to and rather be alone.

You see, after all the unfortunate events take place. She was living in a high pile of lies. Although, she was okay, her life wasn’t. Being tired of unhappiness and depression and abandonment , her life decided to contact her.  Yup, your life gets to contact you in this story. And the irony was that her life is man.

With everything that she did right, that made her happy and her life happy. Her Life state would improve. From clammy skin and bad breath, he slowly looks better and better and became quite handsome. And she feels happier and happier with her decisions.

And everything turns out fine. What Ahern wants to propose in the story was that, you should never take Life for granted. Take care of other people’s feelings, be there for them but be there as well for your Life. You may not aware that you are miserable. So, take one day and think of all the things that you are doing, are you happy? Or is your LIFE happy?

All in all, the book made me realise that I should always keep an eye on what my Life state is. And it was really good.

Ratings: 10/10

NONFICTION TALK ; EXAMINATIONS

Away for a while, exams are approaching !

After that, I'll read with a vengeance.

BOOK REVIEW ; THE LAST TEMPLAR

Title : The Last Templar

Author : Raymond Khoury.

Even the reviews on the cover likened this book to Dan Brown, saying "For those who think Dan Brown doesn't write fast enough". Fictional history has always been a fave genre of mine, so my desires was satisfied enough with this book. It is about a raid at Metropolitan Museum by people adorned in the Knights Templar uniform, with a mission to finish what their forefathers had started; the truth about Jeshua of Nazareth, famously known as Jesus Christ. The truth will undermine Christianity as what it is now, bringing people to the truth of the Old Testament and Jesus as only a man, not the Son of God. Ultimately, the truth was exchanged with faith.

Rating : 10/10

BOOK REVIEW ; A BEND IN THE ROAD

Title : A Bend In The Road
Author : Nicholas Sparks

Ah well. A Sparks book. A happy ever after ending. Never fails.

This book talks about how a husband (county sheriff) gets over his devastation of the hit-and-run death of his wife. Suspecting bad guys, he didn't know the real culprit was someone close. Someone dear to the new love he discovered after the 2 years plus mourning. A woman his 7 year old kid approves, and loves.

AND IT WENT HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

Rating : 7/10

BOOK REVIEW ; ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER

Title : Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Author : Seth Grahame-Smith

Oh well.

Loved every second of it. Being an ardent fan of Honest Abe, how can I not be? Plus with my fascination of historical fiction, this book suits me well. See when you thread fiction with history, it seems much more solid, much more believable. Or maybe Abe Lincoln was really a vampire hunter? Ah.

The book was about President Lincoln's life. His tragedies and joys, his path to fame and success. His journals. His journeys. And his assassination. All these, laced with the fact that Civil War was the result of more than the North vs South, Union vs Confederate; it was the war to set the human race to be free. Indentured servants were the Great Emancipator's cause of his life (though accounts said he kept some slaves for his own too). Smith twists history with saying that behind all this ruckus, vampires were actually the   big factor of this war. Darkness vs light. Servitude vs equality. I must note that a lot of distinguished names were brought in, and some tarnished (obviously fiction) in the plot. Those includes Edgar Allan Poe, Jefferson Davis (he looks so much like Abe!), Ulysses S.Grant, Andrew Johnson, Martin Luther King, among others. It was good. It took me a day.

This deserves to be on the NYT bestseller's list. (I am still encumbered with rage for the Austen book)

Well, I'm biased. It's Abe.

Rating : 10/10

PS : they have photoshopped pictures too. I can't help but like it.

BOOK REVIEW ; THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB

Title : The Jane Austen Book Club
Author : Karen Joy Fowler

Naturally, when my books arrived last Thursday, I picked this one up first. I'm a real Austenian, no one will expect less. Yet being an avid reader of Austen and its parodies has its downside, you tend to expect a lot and put high standards. Which has been disappointed by this rendition by Fowler, even if it is a NYT bestseller. The book was just about a bunch of Austenians (like me!) having a book club discussing Austen, and how Austen is linked to their lives in general. I was expecting a plot like that to go on the lines of a romantic, humorous yet ironic, and none of that really applies to this book. Attempts, yes, yet none had made me slightly tipsy and put me into a book hangover. Really, the best thing about it was the comments made about Austen by other authors at the very end of the book.

Good thing for those who doesn't read Austen is there is a condensed summary of every Austen novels in this book. "Cliffnotes" free.

Urgh. I need a darcy parody. Like now.

Rating : 5/10

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