This book is a graphic novel, and so, the entire story is told like a comic strip. I have never read a book of this format before and it was recommended to me by my friend at work. I so enjoyed this book, more than I expected to. It is hard to decribe all the things this ...
However, just like the bottle in the picture, what they really know is just a little. What they actually have in their head is far from enough. As an old saying goes, empty bottles make the loudest noise. Therefore, it’s wise to enrich ourselves with knowledge and try to make our ...
As in the first Pharaoh’s cat novel, the cat is quick-witted, wisecracking narrator as well as free-spirited, ever-curious protagonist, and the story he tells is an exotic, imaginative, spell-binding tragicomedy. The Eye of Nefertiti also interweaves feline and human, past and present, na...
That all sounds like a valid criticism on the surface, but had this critic gone beyond his own sphere of knowledge and done a little research he would have discovered there are many people whose IQ’s have been recorded to be higher than Einstein’s. American author Marilyn Vos Savant, for...
It was simply a place he belonged to be,and that was sufficient,though he preferred to be alone when he found one. He let the reins go slack across the horse's neck. Not even a thrawn-minded creature like Gideon would give trouble here,he felt. Sure enough,the horse stood quiet,...
Not to say that Tehran looks like Paris, but neither does it feel like Riyadh. To begin with, we in the West seem to believe we corner the ideological high ground on women. To be sure, we do intellectually. That is not to say that women everywhere are not as bright as those in the...
For the kids’ books, I like things that blend normal life with something ridiculous going on behind it. Something that will make both the children and the adults laugh in a different way. Finish this sentence: “When I am not writing I am… “ ...
The first victim who is found, and whose case Moore covered in the news, was dressed up like a girl and disturbingly mutilated, so much so that Moore believes there must be someone mentally sick behind it all. Moore turns to his friend and famous psychologist — then known as an alien...
“I like choosing the jobs I take and the places I go and the food I eat and the companions I sit and yarn with. Don’t you wish for a choice once in a while?” Serafina Pekkala considered, and then said, “Perhaps we don’t mean the same thing by choice, Mr. Scoresby. ...
Book Review #42: Quit Like A Woman… by Holly Whitaker (2019) Read a review of the autobiography and self-help book Quit Like A Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker here… Read More Book Review #42: Quit Like A Woman… by Holly...