Category: dramas & shows
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All the Light We Cannot See
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…
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The Killer Angels
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…
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What is the Purpose of the Lottery?
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…
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A Rebel in Auschwitz
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,…
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The Book Thief
Author | Markus Zusak Rating | 10 There’s something about historical fiction that’s fascinating. Maybe it’s the perfect combination of fact and fiction. Maybe it’s the connections we make to the world we live in today. Maybe it’s the unique perspective of life that we see through the eyes of a person, albeit unreal, from…
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I Never Knew I Had Stage Fright
Has you ever had the experience where you can do something by heart, but then it’s your time to perform, and it’s actually important this time, and your life depends on it– –and then you completely, as in COMPLETELY, screw (I was tempted to curse here but decided against it) it up? Yes? You’re in…