The Fault In Our Stars (By John Green) - Book Review

REVIEW

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."

The fault in our stars is a fictional story that revolves around two people, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. Hazel happens to be a cancer patient and Augustus, a cancer survivor (Although his survival cost him a leg). It's a heart touching story about love , diseases, cancer, survival, life and death.

All The Light We Cannot See [By Anthony Doerr] - Book Review

Review:

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

This is not the type of book everyone will find interesting. It'll take a deep reader to go through everything. Shallow readers will probably dump it after the first five chapters. Doerr didn't make this easy by his complicated form of narration that only ended up making the book unnecessarily long and a bit uncanny , although it didn't terribly detract from the story. I found the mystery gem part rather baseless and confusing.

Quiet [By Susan Cain] - Book Review

About the Author:

Susan Horowitz Cain (born in 1968), was a former lawyer, an American writer and lecturer. She's the author of the 2012 non-fiction book; Quiet; The power of introverts in a world that cannot stop talking. The book Quiet, has been on the New York times bestseller list for over 3 years, and has been translated into 360 languages.

Review:

Today, introversion and extroversion are two of the most exhaustively researched subjects in psychology - arousing the curiosity of hundreds of scientists. In Quiet, Cain carefully analyzes the two types of personalities. She defines introverts as 'People that are drawn to the inner world of thoughts and feelings' and extroverts as 'People that are drawn to the external world of people and activities'. It is passionately argued, impressively researched and filled with indelible stories of real introverted people who ended up being extremely successful innovators of our time.

IN DEPENDENCE [By Sarah Ladipo Manyika] - Book Review

ABOUT THE BOOK.
"In dependence " was published in the UK in 2008, in Nigeria in 2009 and in the US in 2011. It begins in the early sixties when Tayo Ajayi meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of an ex-Colonial officer. It is the story of individuals trying to find their place within uncertain political times. - A story of passion and idealism,  courage and betrayal.


REVIEW
A beautifully written story, that spans across three continents. Manyika intelligently spices up the novel by introducing about 5 different languages ranging from; English, Yoruba, Nigerian pidgin, French and wolof.