‘The Book Thief’ Book Review

My favorite thing about reading is the perspective shifts that come with being exposed to glimpses of other people’s realities. My favorite thing about fiction is the boundless amount of possibilities that humans’ imagination allows for exploration. Add a fictional perspective to realistic events and you got yourself a book guaranteed to be on my favorites list.

In ‘The Book Thief’, Markus Zusak chose death to narrate his story. Death, the most thought about, discussed, and feared event of every human’s life. An event that humans spend their entire lives trying to avoid yet know so little about. But what if death was a man? What would he have to say on the mess we’ve made of our little world?

‘The Sanctuary’ Book Review

There are two types of good books, there are those mind-blowingly awesome books that touch you so deeply you feel the urge to chase the writer halfway across the galaxy just to let him/her know how great their work is. And then there are those books that are ‘just good’. You enjoy reading them and that’s it. To me, ‘The Sanctuary’ was of the latter type. Despite it not being exactly the ‘keep you on the edge of your seat’ type of thriller and the plot being highly predictable (I predicted the book’s major twist more than a hundred pages before it was actually revealed), I enjoyed reading this book.

‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ Book Review

For a long while now, I have been fascinated by historical fiction books. History is one of my many obsessions but I always struggled with studying it because I had trouble remembering significant dates and relating events. This type of books has served a great deal in helping me overcome this, and for that it will forever hold a special place in my heart.

Before reading ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ I knew very little about Afghanistan. After finishing it, I think it’s safe to say that I gained a pretty good idea of the country’s history over the past thirty years as well as some of its geography. However, this is far from being the main aim of the book. It is not an educational book, nor is it a documentation of the history of Afghanistan. The historical events described are more of a mood-setting background to the main narrative of the actual plot.