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My relative left me a lot of money, now my life is in danger: Book Recommendations Edition
Here is a book recommendation list with this niche where the people involved in a will to inherit their relative’s vast fortune get their lives endangered. Some books are fun on this list, while others are pretty dark. Read the full list here,
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Books Set in the Workplace: 4 Recent Reads
Workplaces are tricky. Books set in workplaces expose the worst of society and the human psyche. Here is a list of 4 books across genres set in the workplace that were so remarkable that they stayed with me.
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The Gravity of Us
By this point, I am more or less convinced that all YA fiction reads like fanfiction and hey, I’m not complaining. The focus of this story from the get-go highlights that this one is going to be somewhat different from the rest and I quite enjoy the initial space talk and the family tension as…
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Origin
The fifth and latest book of the Robert Langdon series, Origin, has been getting mixed reviews and that is one of the primary reasons why I had been apprehensive in picking it up. But when I finally did, the problems with the plot were apparent. Like any other Dan Brown book, Origin, is also about…
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INFERNO
My second Dan Brown has much surpassed all expectations as it weaved a futuristic net of events in the shadows of the oldest cities of the modern world. The flux of history, philosophy, architecture and literature in this book has left me yearning for more. The heavy allusions to Dante’s Divine Comedy are informative and…
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Based on the true story of Lale Sokolov, the book is an account of the Holocaust. Compelling narrative with successive gripping events are strewn across the book. Amidst the ash, mud, shouts, guns and looming death, blooms the flower of love. The concentration camps were truly nightmares and Lale’s first hand account recounts the horrors…
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The narration by Death is at once strikingly beautiful and shockingly sad. Labelling the book merely as a historical fiction is an understatement. Indeed, it opens in 1939 Nazi Germany and the beautiful narrative follows around the book thief for the next six years, but it is a young…
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The King of Torts
Grisham goes back to what he writes best, legal thrillers and boy, what a breathless progress of the plot. The nitty-gritty details of Washington D.C. law community and mostly, its corruption is portrayed to the nail and it is hammered in. The plot traces how a public defender in D.C. is lured, almost threatened to…
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Norwegian Wood
The 1987 novel Norwegian Wood is my introduction to Murakami. An ordinary hero, Toru Watanabe’s college life in Tokyo as reminisced by him unfolds a story of friendship, love, companionship and loss of it all. The Beatles song ‘Norwegian Wood’ was Naoko’s favourite and the author never lets us forget that. Student protests, emotional turmoil…
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The Great Gatsby
If I had to describe The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in one word, I would say its plain sad. My sympathies lie with Gatsby and his fate’s unfairness surpasses the word “tragedy”. Published in 1952, The Great Gatsby is about the Jazz Age of America focused on a group of people living in…
