Synopsis: Connell and Marianne are two teenagers of different social standings. While Connell is handsome, popular, and school athlete, Marianne is smart, imitating, and has no friends. While Marianne is wealthy, Connell’s mother works in Marianne’s house. After a couple of encounters, they began a secret relationship, since Connell is afraid of his reputation. When […]
Book Review: Hippie By Paulo Coelho
Hippie is one of the books that take you on a remarkable journey of reading. Right from the streets of Brazil to trekking Mount Machu Pichu and all the way to Europe to Amsterdam and across the continent to finally reaching a gatewaying of choices in Istanbul. By the end of the book, I realized […]
Book Review: The Girl on the Train By Paula Hawkins
Synopsis: Rachel takes the same train every day. Aboard, her routine includes staring out of the window, and every day when the train stops at a particular signal, she looks for her favourite house. Rachel is troubled by her failures, and the house and couple living in it is the gateway for her once-perfect life. […]
Book Review: Becoming By Michelle Obama
When we’re growing up, we’re often asked the question of what we want to become. In the book Becoming by Michelle Obama, she simply strips down this question and says that there’s simply no end to becoming something. Right as a daughter, friend, partner, spouse, mother, grandmother in relationships to becoming more than our job […]
Book Review: Animal Farm By George Orwell
This George Orwell’s classic book is set around the fictional Manor farm in England. However, the Novella is a reflection of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Stalin era. Did you know that Arthur Koestler’s best-selling, Darkness at Noon, inspired Orwell to use fiction as the genre to chronicle the totalitarian regime of Stalin? Orwell, […]
