• Book Reviews,  Nonfiction

    Forty Autumns by Nina Willner

    13th July 2018
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    Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner

    This book is amazing! Written as a memoir and unlike historic textbooks, Nina gave her readers an insight of what life in East Germany was like with an intimate approach. We follow her family story as her mother, Hanna, fled East Germany in hopes of being free, and how Oma and the others dealt with their life behind the Iron Curtains. The book is very sad and depressing but has a happy ending. I cannot recall how many times I’ve cried reading on subways, in coffee shops, and once on a plane over East China Sea. Forty Autumns is emotionally compelling and very enthralling. All the personal stories of Nina’s family members were all very dramatic, making the book even more interesting than plain memoirs.

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  • Book Reviews,  Nonfiction

    Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

    18th May 2018
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    Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

    You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all.

    This book is an enthralling, completely action-packed autobiography that took place in the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid eras of South Africa. It was easy to read, and should be read by everyone. By easy, I meant the language, not the content. Some of the stories were pretty disturbing.

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  • Book Reviews,  Fiction

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

    4th May 2018
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

    I never thought I’d enjoy the book this much. Considering it was first published back in 1962 with its historical background, I think One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is thrilling and great in a rebellious way, even if the characters were a bit gender discriminating sometimes.

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