When searching for good dystopian books, it doesn’t get much better thanNineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell introduces an authoritarian regime (Big Brother) that punishes dissidents. The novel teaches you about the importance of individual freedom and warns of totalitarian regimes abusing power by ...
Completed Good BooksMore The Biker's Rules Romance· Zea Drew A San Francisco boy. Double world champion. Famous bad boy. Adrenaline junky. And my brother's best friend. He seeks to control his guilt. I like the feeling of chaos inside. He hurt me. I hate him ... but love and hate...
I would encourage everyone to read, not justSong of the Crocodile, but any book written by First Nations authors. It is so important that we search out and continue to read books about First Nations people, told in their own voice. When you do, you are rewarded with stories that are co...
I don’t usually care for books with a ton of bedroom scenes as too often the authors use smut instead of interaction and character development.The Greek’s Forced Brideis not smutty and uses the bed times to develop the characters along with their actions and speech. About my only quibble...
Tagged: 1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Children's Books, Reviews. Leave a comment Nope. This middle grade reader falls apart on just about every level. Jerry Shore is ten years old and is now the man of the house after his father is killed in the Big War. As such, he finds the ...
if you see your two-year old child in the middle of the street and a car coming, you will feel an emotion, fear, and this emotion will prompt you to run to save your child. You don’t stop to think about it. You just do it. Your emotion has motivated your behavior without you ...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Why Feel-Good Books Make Me Feel Bad ; Personally, I Rather like Swearing in a Novel - It Can Add a Jet- Charge of Truth, Emotion or Humour" by Blacker, Terence - The Independent (London, England), January 9, 2004By Blacker...
Now I had grown up going to Sunday school, but somehow missed the story of Queen Esther, and now that I know it, I still can’t really fathom what he was talking about and what connection it has to salvation or the apocalypse (for one thing, notoriously, it’s one of two books in...
I think the answer here is working on one’s self. The great thing about the FI journey is that it causes you to reexamine everything about your life. I’ve mostly been trying to find out what really matters to me through books. ...
but hardly as effectively as books do,since reading operates with both more sophisticated visual and audio(if reading aloud)receptor.Moreover,our imagination reproduces mental picture of what we are reading about,so a new word automatically links to a certain image and a p...