Although they may not be the best books of all time, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay are skillfully crafted pieces of work that keep readers on their toes throughout the thrilling read. I trust most of you’ve heard of the story. We follow Katniss Everdeen in a dystopian nation where randomly selected teenagers…
6.27.23 – Updated the schedule due to my lagging behind. 7.29.23 – Lagging behind severely (by a month) Hey, it’s been a while. As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t posted a book review in a while. That’s due to a large workload recently, composed of tons of applications to write and contests to enter. But…
written by Anthony Doerr rated 10 / 10 Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. Anthony Doerr A riveting and insightful novel, descriptive in the most poetic ways. Undoubtedly the best historical fiction I have and will have read this year. Despite…
Author | Michael Shaara Rating | 10 Recently, I’ve been reviewing many books on the Second World War. Now we’re moving back to the 1860s, to the American Civil War. Regarding this war, and the Battle of Gettysburg specifically, a novel you can’t miss is The Killer Angels. Never before has there been a historical…
As humans, we don’t like change. As practices and routines settle down deep into our bones, we become so used to it that we lose focus as to why we began to do such things in the first place, and yet we still continue. To illustrate the dangers of this senseless following of tradition, Shirley…
Author | Jack Fairweather Rating | 9 As a sequel to the World War II series, let’s review A Rebel in Auschwitz, this biography on Witold Pilecki. In contrast to the previous book WWII I discussed, The Book Thief, this is entirely nonfiction, but just as exciting. When you think about the second world war,…