Category: Book Review

‘Abina and the Important Men’ by Trevor R. Gets, and Liz Clarke tells a story about a young girl who attempts to have her voice heard by people of higher class and status. However, her voice is constantly silenced and people with the agency are always the people in control of Abina’s life. In Abina’s…

Anne Lamott, a single mother, described her journey from conception to the birth of her son and his first year as a growing infant. She is a thirty-five-year-old woman, in the initial stages of the pregnancy she described herself as being too self-centered, cynical, eccentric, and edgy to raise a baby alone. She is too…

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” is a quote by Sean Covey. It intends for people to listen not for the sake of it but for the reason to understand the other person. In the book 7 Habits of highly effective teens, Sean Covey…

‘Jurassic Park’ is a sci-fi novel by Michael Crichton that explores what happens when dinosaurs are brought back to life through genetic engineering. Things are definitely spiraling out of control, but it is through this chaos that the conversation about man vs. nature emerges. Man vs. nature is a powerful theme in Crichton’s ‘Jurassic Park’…

For what reason do a few students leave school prepared for success while others, maybe tied with the obligation of their debt and an un-useful degree? This leaves students asking why they wasted time with school, to begin with. Since the money-related emergency that hit twenty to thirty-year-olds particularly hard began, much consideration has been…

Chapter 1: In chapter one, we are introduced to the main character Jacob, or Yakob. Jacob is a teenager who is going through a time of struggle, stress, anger, etc. While Jacob is at work, which is a family business that he just so happens to hate, he gets a call from his grandfather who…

Giving someone a second chance is like walking a tightrope. Many people will fall off of the tightrope, and only a few will actually walk it successfully. The purpose of giving out a second chance is to let someone have a shot to right the wrong they made, to give them a chance to change…

This book is about the life of the people socially connected through coffee. Paige West, the author of the book has tried to provide an account that roams around the globe, from a small village of eastern highland of Papua new guinea(PNG) to western Europe and the USA. As the title of the book suggests…

Summary: Gabriel and Young (2011) designed a study to test three hypotheses. The first hypothesis they were testing if reading a passage from either Harry Potter will make participants “become” wizards or if reading Twilight will make participants “become” vampires. More specifically they examined and proposed the narrative collective-assimilation hypothesis. This hypothesis states that reading…

‘The Silence of the Lambs’ by Thomas Harris is the second book in the series of Hannibal Lecter. Before discussing about the book, I want to talk about Thomas Harris. The author of this book because I him find to be very interesting. Little is known about Thomas Harris. He is very out of the…