“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…” Plot Overview A tornado whirls Dorothy and her dog into a magical world full of munchkins, witches, and wizards. To go back to her home in Kansas city she seeks the help of the wizard of Oz who lives in…
“Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.” Sci-fi is never a genre I pick myself, so when the sci-fi bookclub had a biography of a famous Nobel Prize winner as a book…
“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.” Plot Overview The brotherhood of Freemasons has protected a secret for hundreds of years but now someone has kidnapped Peter Solomon, a mason who…
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentleman.” Plot Overview This is the second book in the Kingkiller Chronicles. This book follows the story of Kvothe, whose parents are killed by a mysterious group, known…
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” The best thing about reading classics is that it is upon the reader on how they enjoy it. There are always multiple layers in every classic literature. If you are lucky or good to…
“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of. So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally, I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.”…
“A Hero is Only as Good as His Villain” – Batman It’s weird to quote Batman for the review of mythological fiction but this quote sums up this whole book perfectly. Raavan is the third book in the Ram Chandra series. There are a total of 5 books planned in…
“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.” Overview Tara Westover was born in a Mormon family in rural Idaho. She is the youngest of 7 siblings, 5 brothers, and 1 sister. His father suffers from Schizomania or bipolar disorder or some other undiagnosed…
“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they’re bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they’re good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and…
I have always admired Barack Obama. I feel he is the most humane and the only American President whom I can connect with. At the beginning of the book, Barack Obama mentions that he hasn’t assumed it will be more than 500 pages when he planned this book. But this…
