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The book is not new. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls was edited in 2005 and turned out to be a bestseller. In 2007, the novel had the second round of popularity thanks to the release of a motion picture based on the book, starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. This memoir is a family saga and a true story that portrays relationships between difficult … [Read more...] about The Glass Castle Book Review

In his first novel, The Martian, Andy Weir took readers to Mars. Astronaut Mark Watney (in film, played by Matt Damon) was presumed dead by his colleagues and left behind on the Red Planet after a disastrous mission. A tough cookie, Mark then tries to survive in this inhospitable place until his home planet sends a rescue mission. Weir’s debut had unpredictable and … [Read more...] about Artemis Book Review

Luckily, now we are living in peacetime, a new generation that doesn’t know anything about war and its crashing blow to the humanity. However, it wasn’t always this way – there was a World War II, which affected all the families in the world last century, especially Jewish families. After years, when author Georgia Hunter found out the history of her Jewish family during World … [Read more...] about We Were the Lucky Ones Review

Due to his journalist’s eye and artist’s touch, Mark Sullivan created a great wartime epic. Beneath a Scarlet Sky is very compelling. The novel is about war, bravery, heroism, and people searching for a peaceful life against the background of the darkest moments in world history. This is a love story which touches even the most stoic readers. In this Beneath a Scarlet Sky … [Read more...] about Beneath a Scarlet Sky Book Review

Man’s Search for Meaning is written by Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and Australian psychiatrist. During World War II, he was imprisoned and spent three years as a laborer in the Nazi ghettos in Dachau and Auschwitz. After his release in 1945, he worked as a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Vienna. In his book, he described living in the Nazi … [Read more...] about Man’s Search for Meaning Book Review